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VOLUME XXX

FOR THl-:1 YEAR I974

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ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRETITHE APPORTIONMENTS

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PREFACE

When the Society published Mr. Sandell's edition ot' ./t/>.rrrat'r.r Q/' WiltshireInt‘/osm'(' /tum‘:/.s' and /1gr('c'nit*ii!.s' in I971 it seemed desirable that theinformation contained therein should be supplemented from similar digestsof Wiltshire Tithe Apportioninents. The Society was again fortunate inpersuading Mr. Sandell to undertake the work of abstracting and editing.The abstracts have been made from the certified diocesan copies of theinstruments of apportionment, all but six of which are in the custody of theWiltshire County Council and are housed in the County Record ()t1ice atTrowbridge. The Society is grateful for permission to publish the documentsto the Wiltshire County Council and, in the cases of Kilmington and ol"Marston Meysey and Sopworth, to the Somerset County Council and theGloucester Diocesan Registrar respectively.Mr. Sandell wishes t.o thank the Wiltshire County Archivist (Mr. M. G.

Rathbone) and his stall‘ For their friendly co-operation while the work ofabstracting was proceeding and lior their help in solving a number oli editorialproblems. He is similarly grateful to the stalls of the Somerset Record OFficeand the former Gloucester City Library.

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ABBREVIATIONS

D.N.B. Dictionary ofNational Biography

V.C.H. Victoria County History

W.R.O. Wiltshire Record Office

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INTRODUCTION

The practice of paying tithes was based on the notion that tenths should bepaid universally to support the local churches and clergy of the early Christianchurch.‘ The theoretical elassilication of the tithes into predial tithes. arisingfrom the produce of the land, mixed tithes, from the benefits ofthe stock, andpersonal tithes, from the fruits of men's labour. emphasized that no economicactivity was exempt from tithe-payment. In theory. and perhaps for a timein practice, churches were held by incumbent rectors who served, andreceived all the tithes from, a locality which became an ecclesiastical parish.Such parishes were established early in England and the pattern of them waslittle changed until the l9th century. The paying and receiving of tithes maywell have caused disscnsion at the time when new churches were beingfounded but subsequent events added new catises for confusion and dis-satisfaction. The cure of souls in a parish sometimes passed from the hands olthe rector, usually when a monastery appropriated to itself the revenues olthe church. When a vicar was nominated to serve the church in the rector'splace, the vicarage ordained for him was often endowed with some of theparish tithes. The distinction thus created between rectorial and viearialtithes usually followed, and so consolidated, the distinction between greattithes. arising from corn, hay, and wool. and small tithes. The great tithesusually remained part of the rectorial estate and the small tithes were usuallypart of the endowment of the vicarage. After the Dissolution the great tithesoften passed through the Crown to laymen and, when not attached to abeneliee or an ecclesiastical office, an estate consisting of tithes could bebroken up and disposed ofin the same way as one consisting of land. To avoidpayment in kind tithes were sometimes leased to the owner or tenant of theland from which they arose or, especially in the ease of small tithes, werereplaced by annual payments which frequently became fixed by ctistom.3The possible existence within a parish of several tithe-owners. perhaps btitnot necessarily landowners, and of owners with rights to dilferent kinds oftithes, and the availability of several methods of payment could both besources of confusion and disptite. The introduction of new crops. newtechniques of husbandry, and changes in land use might all make it more

I l-or the history of tithe payment see .l. Selden, Hist. of Hr/i

2 WILTSHIRE TITHE APPORTIONMENTS

difficult to agree over what tithes were due to whom and how they were to bevalued and paid.1

TITHE COMMUTATION IN WILTSHIRE BEFORE 1836

In the early 19th century the ownership of tithes and the encumbrance ofland with them in Wiltshire was perhaps typical of such things elsewhere!In some 80 of the ancient ecclesiastical parishes in the county all or virtuallyall the great and small tithes from the whole parish were due to the incumbent.Those parishes, as might be expected, tended to be the smaller ones withincumbent rectors. The pattern of ownership and encumbrance in them was,in view of the potential complications, notably simple and close to the earliestnotions of tithe payment. In parishes in which all great tithes were due to oneowner and all small tithes to another, usually a vicar, and in parishes wherethe incumbent received the great majority of the tithes the pattern was notmuch more complex. In many other parishes, however, the pattern wasconfused because over the years tithes had been extinguished, when the right toreceive them was permanently surrendered, commuted, when payment inkind was permanently replaced by payment in another way, usually in cash,and merged, when the owner of the tithes also owned the land from whichthey arose.On much land tithes had been and were being extinguished and commuted

at inclosure. For only some sixteen ancient ecclesiastical parishes hadInclosure Agreements and Awards removed the need for rent-charges to beallotted under the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836.3 The tithes were usuallyextinguished by allotments of land but at Chilton Foliat, in addition to anallotment of land and a cash payment to extinguish some tithes, a rent-chargeof over £900 was allotted, and at Stratton St. Margaret a corn-rent, an annualcash rent variable according to the prices of grains, was allotted. Corn-rentsalso replaced tithes under Inclosure Awards on the entire parishes of Colerneand Netheravon but those corn-rents, like that on part of Keevil, werecommuted to rent-charges under the Tithe Commutation Act (79, 156, 196).Tithes were dealt with at inclosure more often than those figures suggest,however, since they were extinguished or commuted by awards in some 35more ancient ecclesiastical parishes. In some 30 lands were exonerated underawards dealing with less than a whole parish, usually with a chapelry or

1 Some typical difliculties arising over tithes are mentioned in W. E. Tate, Parish Chest(1969 edn.), 136-8. For some effects on farming practice see R. E. Prothero (Lord Ernle),Engiish Farming Past and Present (1961 edn.), 332-48.

1 For some brief general comment see H. C. Prince, ‘Tithe Surveys of the Mid-NineteenthCentury’, Agric. Hist. R. vii. 16-17.

3 They were Berwick St. Leonard, Bishopstone in Ramsbury hundred, Great Cheverell,Little Cheverell, Chilton Foliat, Kingston Deverill, Knook, Latton, Odstock, Patney,Great Somerford, Stanton St. Quintin, Stockton, Stratton St. Margaret, Sutton Veny,and Winterbourne Monkton, for all of which see Wiits. Inciosure Awards and Agreements(Wilts. Rec. Soc. xxv).

INTRODUCTION 3

tithing (e.g. Melksham, 190, Durnford, 107), but with everything but thewindmill in Tilshead (252) and with only 23 a. in Upton Scudamore (260).In about five parishes only some of the tithes were extinguished.1 The titheswere usually replaced by allotments of land but sometimes by annual cashpayments or corn-rents (68-9). Apart from the 51 parishes with landsexonerated from all or some tithes at inclosure there were some 80 otherswith areas of land acknowledged to be tithe-free, although in some sevencases (e.g. 57, 59) only the glebe was deemed tithe-free.1 Sometimes freedomarose because the ownership of land and tithes had been merged early. Theappropriation of the church by a religious house holding land in the parish,which often led to the early exemption of the demesne from tithes, wassometimes said (e.g. 34, 183) or may be inferred (e.g. 268) to be the reasonwhy the land was tithe-free. In some cases the tithe-free areas may have beencommonable woodland once within the bounds of no parish, perhaps tithe-free because no tithe had ever been paid (e.g. 267). Elsewhere the reasons forthe freedom are uncertain. Some of the 80 parishes with tithe-free land wereamong about 40 parishes in which tithes were merged under the TitheCommutation Act or were said to have been already merged. When landand the tithes arising from it were in the same ownership it was usuallybecause appropriated great tithes had passed to laymen after the Dissolutionand were sold to the owners of the estates from which they arose. Such landwas not deemed tithe-free. The land and tithes remained separate estatescapable of separate valuation and disposal but, by the early 19th century,many of the lands involved had to all intents and purposes long been tithe-free. For example, the tithes on virtually the whole of Lyneham (181), mostof which had belonged to Bradenstoke Priory,3 were already merged. Com-mutation of tithes to moduses or fixed annual payments, usually in cash butsometimes in kind, was mentioned in some 63 parishes, in many of whichtithes had also been commuted or extinguished in other ways. Such paymentswere possibly related to the value of the tithes they replaced at the time ofcommutation but remained fixed by custom even though the money value ofthe tithes changed. By the early 19th century they gave a considerableadvantage to the tithe-payer. Sometimes the great tithes (e.g. 37, 58) butmore often the small tithes were thus commuted. There was a great varietyof payments but the most common moduses were small cash payments tocover small tithes.4 The detail in the list of them for Sherston Magna (232)indicates the potential complications of tithe-paying and the possibleconfusion and difliculty in the collection even of moduses and customarypayments.Tithe extinguishing, merging, and commuting had in all those ways proceed-

ed to a different extent in different parishes. There remained some l l0 anci-ent ecclesiastical parishes in which no extinguishing, merging, or commuting

1 The index printed below shows which abstracts mention Inclosure Awards or Agreements.1 The legal origins of freedom from tithes are given in Prince, ‘Tithe Surveys‘, Ag. H. R.vii. 20.

1* V.C.H. Wilts. ix. 100-1.‘ The index printed below shows which abstracts mention moduses or customary payments.


was recorded and some fourteen more in which they concerned onlythe glebe land of the benefice. In many of them commutation by leases andtemporary agreements certainly took place and, although no detailed accountof how tithes were rendered can yet be given, it seems that in all parisheswhere tithes were not entirely extinguished payment in kind was less commonthan cash payments by farmers under leases.1

THE TITHE COMMUTATION ACT, 1836

The Tithe Commutation Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. IV, c. 71), in no way interferedwith the rights of tithe-owners to receive and the obligations of landownersto pay tithes, nor with the differing burdens of tithes with which landsmight be encumbered, but, by abolishing nearly all payment in kind andproviding for an approved valuation of the tithes arising from all lands,annually and ofiicially adjusted, was intended to put an end to the confusionand dissension attending the payment and receipt of the tithes. Under theAct a rent-charge in place of tithes was assessed for every parish in whichtithes had not already been statutorily extinguished or commuted to acorn-rent. The respective numbers of bushels of wheat, barley, and oats whicheach third of that sum could have bought immediately after the Act waspassed were calculated. Thereafter rent-charges equal to the value of thosenumbers of bushels, at the prices officially announced every January based onthe average prices in the seven preceding years, were to be paid annually inplace of tithes. The initial rent-charge for each parish was to be agreedbetween the owners of at least two-thirds by value of the land and of thegreat and small tithes at meetings which could be called by the owners of aquarter by value of the tithes or of the land subject to tithes. Three com-missioners were appointed, two by a Secretary of State, the other by thearchbishop of Canterbury, with a staff of not more than twelve assistantcommissioners, to confirm such agreements, which bound the whole parishconcerned. When tithes were attached to a benefice or to an ecclesiasticaloflice the agreement required the patron’s consent and the bishop had to benotified of it. The Act, however, established no rules for the calculation ofthe initial rent-charges and that may have been at least partly responsible forthe frequent failure to reach agreement. Where an agreement had not beenreached and was not pending by 1 October 1838 the commissioners them-selves awarded the rent-charge. It was set at the clear average annual valueof the tithes for the seven years ending at Christmas 1835.2 Rents paid underleases of tithes and moduses and other customary payments made in place oftithes were taken to be the value of the tithes. The document recording theagreement or award included statements of what area of land in the parishwas subject to tithes and how much of it was under what state of cultivation,what moduses and other customary payments were in force, what areas of

I Prothero, Eng. Forming, 341.1 It may be that landowners and tithe-owners agreed to value the tithes in the same waybut that was apparently not required by the Act: cll. xvii-xxxi.

INTRODUCTION 5

land were tithe-free, and the rent-charges payable to each tithe-owner. Itwas dated and then dated again when confirmed by the commissioners.Once the agreement or award was confirmed a valuer (or an even number of

valuers, with provision for an umpire, if a single valuer could not be agreedon) was appointed to apportion the total rent-charge on the parish landssubject to tithes. The burden of rent-charge was to reflect the burden of titheswith which lands were encumbered. Tithe-free lands were exempt, rent-charges did not have to be allotted to tithe-owners who also owned the landfrom which the tithes arose,1 and moduses became rent-charges of the samevalue? The valuer drafted an apportionment. It included a preamble settingout the agreement or award on which it was founded and a schedule listingthe names, areas, states of cultivation,3 and owners and occupiers of thelands on which charges were apportioned. A map or plan was made andreferred to by numbers from the schedule in the apportionment. The draftapportionment and map were sent to the commissioners. They had aninstrument of apportionment engrossed and the map annexed to it, confirmedand dated it, and sent a copy both to the parish and the appropriate diocesanregistry. Lands were discharged from payment of tithes from 1 January afterthe apportionment was confirmed and the rent-charges became payable from1 July after that.4The apportionments remained among the records of the Tithe Com-

missioners (from 1936 the Tithe Redemption Commissioners) and weretransferred to the Public Record Oflice in 1966. The copies of Wiltshireapportionments deposited in the Salisbury and Bristol diocesan registrieswere transferred by order of the Master of the Rolls to the Wiltshire RecordOflice from 1950. The copies of the Marston Meysey and Sopworth appor-tionments have been deposited in the Gloucester Diocesan Record Office inGloucester City Library and that of the Kilmington apportionment in theSomerset Record Office. The abstracts printed below were made from thediocesan copies.5

THE PROGRESS OF TITHE COMMUTATION UNDER THE ACT

There were some 255 ancient ecclesiastical parishes in Wiltshire for whichcommutation was necessary under the Tithe Commutation Act, but theAct provided that the ancient ecclesiastical parish need not be the area forwhich agreements, awards, and apportionments were made. The TitheCommissioners could order an extra-parochial place, a township in which

I Jni. Soc. Archivists, i. 136.1 Ibid. 134.3 For a few general remarks about the classification of land see Prince, ‘Tithe Surveys’,Ag. H. R. vii. 19.

~‘ For the records of the Tithe Commissioners and for an account of the form of apportion-ments see Jni. Soc. Arch. i. 132-9.

5 Those for Dauntsey (93) and Sutton Benger (245), for which the diocesan copies aremissing, were made from microfilm copies in the W. R. O.


separate overseers of the poor were appointed, or any other place con-stituting a tithe-paying unit to be treated as an independent tithe district forthe purposes of commutation.1 The abstracts of the 290 Wiltshire apportion-ments printed below therefore include eight for extra-parochial places andsome 30 for chapelries or tithings, including three for the mother parishes ofwhich there was no award (9, 209, 287). Many more than 30 of the ancientecclesiastical parishes in Wiltshire, however, contained chapelries or tithings,usually based on pre-Conquest villages, with their own common fields and,where they had them, with churches which remained daughter churches.Such parishes were dealt with in a variety of ways under the Tithe Commuta-tion Act and, although the making of binding decisions by majorities in atithe district may have made the choice of what the district was to be a delicatematter, it is difl"lcult to trace a consistent principle in the way they weretreated. Chapelries, tithings, and townships from some 21 ancient ecclesiast-ical parishes were made official tithe districts. Some large parishes like Enford(114-18) and Bishop’s Cannings (52-5) were divided into several tithe districtsand some 35 ‘non-parochial’ tithe districts were thus formed. Individually agood case could be made for each one to become a tithe district. In some thetithe owners were different from those of the mother parish (e.g. Allington, inAll Cannings, 51). Others became tithe districts because they were clearlyalready parishes for poor-law purposes (e.g. Stert, in Urchfont, 241, EastGrimstead, in West Dean, 132), perhaps with very little connexion with themother parish (e.g. West Knoyle, in North Newnton, 163), although theymay not have had different tithe-owners (e.g. the two Wilsfords and theirtithings, 269-72). All those places clearly became tithe districts for goodreasons but many other places apparently with equally good claims weredealt with as part of their parent parishes. In twenty parish apportionmentsthe owners and occupiers of more than one township, titl1ing, or chapelrycan be distinguished in the schedules. In each of them a single agreement oraward dealt with the whole parish. In three apportionments founded on agree-ments, however, the total rent-charges and the land-use figures for the severalparts of the parish were specified separately in the preamble reciting theagreement, perhaps suggesting an amalgamation of separate agreements (AllCannings, 50, Downton, 104, Melksham, 190). In the other seventeen parishesa single agreement or award was made and the constituent townships, tithings,or chapelries were distinguished only in the schedules to the apportionments;elsewhere (e.g. Wilcot, 268) not even that was done. Why were some placesnot treated as tithe districts when they were certainly already parishes forpoor-law purposes (e.g. Brokenborough, Charlton, and Westport St. Mary,41)? The most likely reason seems to have been that the tithes belongedprincipally to a single owner (41, 50, 104), although that did not prevent otherparishes being split into tithe districts. It seems that there was no consistentprinciple and that the arrangement which appeared locally to be mostconvenient and likely to lead to agreement was adopted.

1 6 & 7 Wm. IV, C. 71, cl. xii.

INTRODUCTION 7

Of the 290 apportionments for parishes and tithe districts abstractedbelow, 178 were founded on agreements. The dates of the agreements, thatis the dates when the first signatures were put to them, run from 15 November1836 (214), only three months after the Act was passed, to 18 April I844(239), 5% years after the statutory date for reaching agreements. In a fewplaces agreements had been signed by that statutory date, 1 October 1838,and a great many were evidently pending then, to judge by the numbersigned 1839-40, the busiest years for agreements. If no agreement had beensigned by the end of 1840 commutation was more likely to have been by awardthan agreement, but agreements continued to be reached and did not becomeunusual until after 1841. Success or failure in reaching an agreement wasapparently unrelated to the size of the place or the complexity of the patternof land- and tithe-ownership in it. Agreements were indeed reached in mostof Wiltshire’s larger and more complex parishes. At both Trowbridge andMelksham (190, 256), for example, agreements were reached in 1836,although both had to be amended by supplementary agreements. On theother hand there might be no agreement despite a simple pattern of ownership(e.g. 224). The fact that in three-fifths of the places tithes were commutedunder agreements, despite the potential difficulties in valuing them, perhapsconfirms that commutation was desired on both sides.The first Wiltshire award was made by the commissioners on 4 December

1838 (102), only two months after the date on which awards became possible.The last was made on 23 May 1850 (64), but most were made in the period1840-5. The commissioners had clear rules for estimating the value of thetithes, but they were not bound by them and the preamble in the apportion-ment recording the award often refers to the fact that the annual value of thetithes in the seven years ending at Christmas 1835 was not a proper basis fora permanent commutation. The Wiltshire awards and supplementary awardswere the work of only five assistant commissioners, three of whom actedon only one occasion each. Some 112 awards, including thirteen supplement-ary awards following agreements, were the work of Aneurin Owen (d. 1851),all but two over the years 1838-47. Since assistant commissioners couldalso be asked to advise on the terms of agreements and bore responsibilityfor the vetting of agreements and of apportionments under agreements andawards, they were clearly very busy years for Owen, whose work as anassistant tithe commissioner was presumably not confined to Wiltshire.1Although his task was to value the tithes, not to survey the land or apportionthe rent-charge, the pressure on his time may have limited Owen’s personalunderstanding of the history of tithe-paying and of the dispute attending itin each place. George Wingrove Cooke was responsible for eleven awardsbetween 1846 and 1850, nine of them made in 1848.1 Supplementaryagreements followed eight agreements, and supplementary awards followedfifteen agreements and seventeen awards. They usually resulted from an

1 For a biography of Owen see D.N.B.1 For the work of the commissioners and assistant commissioners see L. Shelford, Actsfor the Commutation of Tithes (1842 edn.), index. For some of their records see Jnl. Soc.Arch. i. 136.


omission in the draft agreement or award but sometimes corrected a mistakencalculation or altered the rent-charge. They were usually nearer the date onwhich the apportionment was confirmed than the date of agreement or awardand so were presumably found necessaryduring apportionment or examinationof the draft apportionment by the commissioners. The awards for Netheravon,Keevil, and Colerne (196, 156, 79) to convert corn-rents, payable underInclosure Awards, to rent-charges were made by the Tithe Commissionersrespectively in 1863, 1864, and 1875. Altered apportionments are not noticedin the abstracts printed below.After an award or agreement had been made it was usually possible to

agree on a single valuer to apportion the rent-charge. Of some 87 valuers!employed about half were drawn from outside the county. Local men, how-ever, were more frequently used. Francis Attwood of Salisbury and RobertDavis Little of Chippenham, for example, were valuers in 33 and 30 appor-tionments respectively. As the Act demanded, the schedules to the apportion-ments record the area of every piece of land, however small, subject totithes. Especially in the larger parishes much surveying and valuing and thenapportioning was necessary! The Act required draft apportionments to becompleted six months after the agreement or award was confirmed but thathardly seems to have been possible in some large parishes. Surveying andvaluation expenses were paid by the tithe-owners and landowners but theywere mentioned in the apportionments of only Highworth (142) and LydiardMillicent (179). The more active valuers presumably profited greatly fromtheir fees especially if, as in the case of Richard Stratton of Upavon, they werethemselves farmers of substance. The maps accompanying the draft appor-tionments are not all dated, nor their makers all known.3 To judge fromthose which do bear dates they were made, as might be expected, duringthe process of apportionment, but that was not always so. In several cases(e.g. 9, 21, 197) the map preceded the agreement or award; elsewhere (e.g.265) it seems to have been made at a much later stage. Some 35 mapmakersare known, a few of them also being valuers.4 About a third came from outsidethe county.The interval between the agreement or award and the confirmation and

engrossment of the apportionment varied greatly. The average was probablyabout two years. The interval was infrequently shorter than a year but rarelyexceeded five years. The rate of progress towards apportionment and con-firmation can, allowing for some exceptions, be related roughly to the sizeand complexity of the parish concerned. In Alton Barnes (6), a parish of c.1,000 a. in which all the tithes belonged to a rector whose patrons ownednearly all the land, the interval was six months, but in Milton Lilbourne (194),a parish of nearly 3,500 a. with several townships and tithings and several

1 Listed below, Appendix 1.1 Cf. Prince, ‘Tithe Surveys‘, Ag. H. R. vii. 20-5.3 For the apportionment maps in general see ibid.; Jnl. Soc. Arch. i. 135.4 Listed below, Appendix 2.

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tithe-owners and landowners, it was three years. By 1846, however, ten yearsafter the Tithe Commutation Act, most tithes were commuted in Wiltshire,and by 1856 they all were.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE ABSTRACTS

The collection which follows has been confined to the modern boundary ofWiltshire. It is founded on the principle that for each apportionment thereshould be a single and separate abstract. The abstracts for ancient ecclesias-tical parishes and extra-parochial places which became tithe districts arearranged lexicographically. Those for chapelries, tithings, or townships whichbecame tithe districts appear as separate numbered abstracts under the nameof the mother parish with the name of the tithe district printed below thetitle line. A few such districts appear under their own names.The area of the parish or district subject to tithes, taken from the recital

of the agreement or award in the preamble, is printed against the right-handmargin in the title-line of nearly every abstract. The areas often correspondroughly to the totals given of lands under different types of cultivation, butmany of the figures are unreliable. Some seem to include tithe-free land(e.g. 268) and, when a whole parish was subject to tithes, it is often doubtfulwhether the figure expressing the area represents an estimated total area orwhether non-tithable parts of the parish, such as the roads, were excluded.In the award for Wilsford in Swanborough hundred, for example, the roadswere apparently excluded, but in the agreement for Manningford Bohune,its tithing, were apparently included (269-713). A sub-title, Agreement orAward, indicates whether the apportionment was founded on agreement oraward. It is followed by the date of the agreement or award, with the name ofthe assistant commissioner for an award in brackets. That is followed by thedate when the apportionment was confirmed and sealed by the commissioners,taken from the back of the document. The assistant commissioners dealingwith awards are listed in Appendix 3. The statement of the total rent-chargesagreed or awarded and the tithe-owners to whom they were allotted isabstracted under the sub-title Tithe rent-charge. The abstract records, whenthe information is given in the preamble, the nature of the tithes replaced bythe rent-charges and the areas of land from which they arose. It also records,where possible, what tithes had been covered by moduses or similar pay-ments, what tithes had already been merged or were merged under theagreement or award, what land was tithe-free (sometimes including a reasonfor the freedom), and what land had been exonerated from tithes under anInclosure Award. The figures expressing the uses to which the tithable landsof the parish were put are also abstracted from the preamble. Under Arable,upland or commonable arable is sometimes distinguished. Meadow is notused in the precise sense of grassland from which a crop was taken for hay,but usually means all land under grass, often including down land. Pasture,from which no crop of grass was taken for hay, is sometimes separated fromthe meadow. It often includes upland sheep pasture but sometimes the area


of Down is itself given separately. The area of land taken by Homesteads isfrequently given and other uses of land are sometimes specified.The total numbers of Owners and the names of owners and Occupiers are

abstracted from the schedules to the apportionments. Limitation of spacehas prevented the naming of those holding a total of less than 50 a. of land.The schedules sometimes reveal a tenurial chain with several links between theholders in fee of the land and the men who cultivated it. The owners named inthe abstracts are those named in the apportionments at the top of the chain.The occupiers named are those holding immediately of them. To avoidexcessive complication and to save space lower tenants are not noticed in theabstracts. A further warning must be given. It is certain that the ownersnamed in some apportionments (e.g. 6, 51, where the owners are known fromother sources and named in square brackets) were themselves tenants althoughthat fact could not possibly be discovered from the apportionment. It is notclear how often the apportionments play such tricks but it is certainly advisablefor the reader concerned with the ownership and farming of the land to usethe abstracts, and the apportionments themselves, cautiously. Glebe estates,however small, are mentioned under Owners whether they were attached to abenefice or not. When an apportionment identifies land, belonging to a layrector or any other owner, which was formerly glebe to support a rector, thatinformation appears in the abstract. The valuers are not named in theabstracts but are listed in Appendix l.From the maps only the date, where given, and the scale have been

abstracted. For maps which have no scale on them an approximate scale hasusually been given in square brackets. The names of known mapmakers arelisted in Appendix 2.In the abstracts the spellings of place-names, including the names of some

farms, have been rationalized in accordance with modern usage and somepersonal names, especially of peers and baronets, have been standardized.Many of the lesser place-names and most personal names have been left inthe form that they take in the apportionments. Parts of acres are adjusted tothe nearest whole acre; areas smaller than one acre are increased to an acre.

ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRETITHE APPORTIONMENTS

1 ALDBOURNE (8,496 a.)Agreement 16 March 1837, confirmed 30 Sept. 1839.Tithe rent-charge On 6,114 a. £1,475 to the dean and chapter of Winchesterfor great tithes; £210 15s. to the vicar (John Seagram) for lesser tithes.A pension of £2 a year payable by the dean and chapter of Winchester tothe vicar is exempt from rent-charge; rectorial glebe, 120 a., tithe—freeunder Inclosure Award, 1809, in which allotments in place of tithes on itwere made to the vicar.

Arable 5,038 a. Meadow 839 a. Wood 227 a. Cottages and gardens 10 a.Owners 55. Trustees of Aldbourne poor 50 a.; James Brogden 515 a.;Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville 1,467 a.; Jonathan and ThomasBelcher 85 a.; Thomas Brown 126 a.; William Brown 304 a.; WilliamBrown of Kingstone 120 a.; Sir Francis Burdett 402 a.; Cornelius Canning166 a.; Richard Church 147 a.; George Church 346 a.; Robert Church637 a.; Thomas Coleman 63 a.; Elizabeth Gould 57 a.; Richard Hill,Simon Sawyer, and Timothy Weedon 59 a.; Stephen Neate 57 a.; dean andchapter of Winchester 124 a. (including rectorial glebe, 120 a.); JohnRound 577 a.; John Seymour 63 a.; Thomas Southby 400 a.; John Stone628 a.; John Seagram 426 a.; Broome Witts 74 a.; William Woodman200 a. Vicarial glebe 4 a.

Occupiers Trustees of the poor 50 a.; Thomas Gould 515 a.; JosephWentworth 481 a.; Thomas Butler 184 a.; William Woodman 963 a.;William Choules 411 a.; Broome Witts 159 a.; Thomas Brown 126 a.;William Brown 304 a.; John Brown 748 a.; Thomas Kemm 354 a.;Cornelius Canning 166 a.; Richard Church 569 a.; George Church 346 a.;Robert Church 637 a.; William Coleman 63 a.; Elizabeth Gould 457 a.;Richard Hill, Simon Sawyer, and Timothy Weedon 59 a.; WilliamDeadman 412 a.; Thomas Butler and others 124 a.; William Church 577 a.;John Seymour 63 a.

Maps 2, 1838. Village 1/2376, parish 1/9504.

2 ALDERBURY (2,157 a. excl. Pitton and Farley)Award 6 Nov. 1847 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 31 Dec.

1849.Tithe rent-charge £80 to the vicar (H. Stephens) for vicarial tithes. Whaddonfarm and Seth Ward’s charity for the College of Matrons tithe-free onpayment of 10s. annually to Viscount Folkestone; rectorial tithes extin-guished by allotments of land under Inclosure Award, 1809.

Arable 600 a. Meadow 1,020 a. Wood 500 a. Orchards and gardens 30 a.Homesteads and buildings 5 a.


Owners 21. Trustees of Seth Ward’s charity 570 a.; Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie,Viscount Folkestone, 1,229 a.; George Fort 312 a. Glebe l a.

Occupiers Stephen Parsons 362 a.; Viscount Folkestone 397 a.; JohnTaunton 488 a.; George Rumbold 115 a.; George Fort 312 a.

Map (boundaries of Whaddon shown), 1/3168.

3 ALDERBURY (2,157 a.)Pitton and Farley chapelries

Agreement 4 Dec. 1838, confirmed 9 March 1842.Tithe rent-charge £330 to the treasurer of Salisbury cathedral for greattithes, including £10 for tithes on glebe; £103 to the vicar (Hugh Stephens)for lesser tithes, including £8 for tithes on glebe. 174 a. tithe-free; pasturelands tithe—free when fed with cows on payment of a modus of 2d. a cowbut tithes of hay still payable; also a modus of 6d. a calf, 6d. a colt, 2d. apig, ld. for ancient gardens, poultry, and eggs, ld. a homestead.

Arable 1,389 a. Meadow 288 a. Wood 143 a. Orchards and gardens 49 a.PITTONOwners 48. John Ainsworth 117 a.; Henry Cook 139 a.; Henry Fox-Strangways, earl of Ilchester, 225 a.; William Maton 122 a.; JosephParsons 156 a.; John Read 117 a.; Moses Webb 57 a.; Samuel Webb 128 a.;warden and fellows of Winchester College 82 a. including land in Farley(rectorial glebe).

Occupiers John Ainsworth 98 a.; George Cook 139 a.; Joseph Parsons andothers 165 a.; William Maton 117 a.; Joseph Parsons 89 a.; StephenSeaward 117 a.; Moses Webb 57 a.; Ann Whitlock 128 a.

FARLEYOwners 32. James Cook 71 a.; Caroline Newman 79 a.; Thomas Parsons

54 a.; William Pleydell-Bouverie, earl of Radnor, 251 a. Vicarial glebe34 a. including land in Pitton.

Occupiers James Cook 71 a.; Nicholas Prewett 79 a.; Thomas Parsons54 a.; Joseph Parsons 51 a.; earl of Radnor 152 a.; James Cook andanother 82 a.

Map 1/4752.

4 ALDERTON (1,584 a.)Agreement 7 Aug. 1839, confirmed 31 Dec. 1840.Tithe rent-charge £145 to the dean and chapter of Gloucester for great andsmall tithes.

Arable 428 a. Meadow 1,127 a. Wood 29 a.Owners 8. Joseph Neeld 1,536 a. Glebe 47 a.Occupiers Joseph Neeld 74 a.; R. T. Deere 413 a.; John Kington 343 a.;Daniel Lessiter 247 a.; James Lane 246 a.; Mary White 169 a.

Map 1840. 1/2640.

5 ALLINGTON (940 a.)Award 21 Dec. 1839 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 4 Nov. 1840.

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Tithe rent-charge £220 for great tithes and £2 5s. for tithes of oats on 4yardlands called Millers to Robert Waters of Boscombe, and £10 fortithes on glebe.

Arable 629 a. Meadow 30 a. Homesteads and gardens 5 a. Down 234 a.Roads 6 a.

Owners 8. James Horne 173 a.; Jane Mayhew 144 a.; Wadham Wyndham546 a. Glebe 35 a.

Occupiers James Horne 718 a.; William Page 144 a.Map 1840. 1/4752.

6 ALTON BARNES (1,001 a.)Agreement 31 Dec. 1838, confirmed 21 June 1839.Tithe rent-charge On 1,001 a. £262 10s. to the rector (David Williams) forgreat and small tithes, including £13 10s. for tithes on glebe.

Arable 572 a. Meadow 122 a. Wood 18 a. Down 317 a. Homesteads 11 a.Owners 9 [most as tenants of New College, Oxford]. William S. Maslen210 a.; John Neate 91 a.; W. S. Maslen and others 70 a.; Robert Pile628 a. Glebe 50 a.

Occupiers W. S. Maslen 248 a.; William Pyke 90 a.; Edward Chapman628 a.; W. S. Maslen and others 70 a.

Maps 2, 1838. 1/3168.

7 ALVEDISTON (2,418 a.)Award 30 Dec. 1842 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept.

1844.Tithe rent-charge £395 to the president and fellows of King’s College,Cambridge, for great tithes; £80 to the vicar (S. H. Hawtrey) for lessertithes. All tithes belong to the vicar except those of corn, grain, and haythroughout the parish and of lambs and 200 fleeces of wool arising fromNorrington farm, which belong to King’s College.

Arable 248 a. Meadow 38 a. Pasture 128 a. Wood 69 a. Orchards, gardens,and homesteads 16 a. Down 1,108 a. Roads 10 a.

Owners 6. Henry King 55 a;. Thomas King 422 a.; J. W. G. Rogers 769 a.;William Wyndham 1,269 a. Vicarial glebe 1 a.

Occupiers John Wright 55 a.; Thomas King 419 a.; J. W. G. Rogers 768 a.;James Parham 1,269 a.

Map 1/4752.

8 AMESBURY (5,778 a.)Award 30 Aug. 1843 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 19 Feb. 1847.Tithe rent-charge £955 to the dean and canons of Windsor; £1 to theperpetual curate (F. W. Fowle). Tithes of milk and calves had previouslybeen altered to a payment of 6d. to the perpetual curate for each cow andcalf; all other tithes belonged to the dean and canons of Windsor. 833 a.tithe-free by prescription.

Arable 2,960 a. Meadow 380 a. Down 2,157 a. Woods 177 a. Roads andrivers 104 a.

14 W1 LTSHIRE TITHE APPORTIONMENTS

Owners ll. Sir Edmund Antrobus 5,254 a. Glebe 1 a.Occupiers Sir Edmund Antrobus 209 a.; William Long 1,729 a.; RobertPinckney 1,005 a.; Henry Selfe 1,102 a. ; Thomas Tanner 1,174 a.; EdmundOlding, junior, 501 a. (tithe-free).

hlap 1846.1/4752.

9 ASHTON KEYNES (1,350 a.)Leigh tithing

Agreement ll June 1840, supplementary award 28 Nov. 1840 (CommissionerAneurin Owen), confirmed 31 March 1841.

Tithe rent-charge On 1,158 a. £287 10s. to the [lay] rector (Rev. Charles Pitt)for great and small tithes, including £5 for tithes on rectorial and £2 10s.for tithes on vicarial glebe. 188 a. tithe-free.

Arable 127 a. Meadow 1,202 a. Wood 1 a. Roads and waste 4 a.Owners 36. Joseph Hulbert 62 a.; John Hulbert 168 a.; Richard Kennier

123 a.; Charles Jenkinson, earl of Liverpool, 412 a.; William Large 87 a.;Thomas Lediard 66 a.; Rev. John Nicholas 134 a.; Charles Stevens 64 a.;Rev. Charles Pitt 45 a. (rectorial glebe).

Occupiers Thomas Curtis and others 62 a.; Joseph Hulbert 168 a.; WilliamMoody 123 a.; William Archer 191 a.; Joseph Freeth 88 a.; WilliamMillard 52 a.; John Slatter 58 a.; John Ellison 87 a.; James Godwin 125 a.;Henry Ellison 53 a.

Map 1839. 1/3168.

10 STEEPLE ASHTON (2,823 a. excl. West Ashton, GreatHinton, and Semington)

Agreement 8 March 1841, confirmed 30 Sept. 1844.Tithe rent-charge On 2,767 a. £363 10s. to the master and fellows ofMagdalene College, Cambridge, for great tithes; on 36 a. (in schedule 1)£10 to Walter Long; on 59 a. (in schedule 2) £18 2s. to the rector of Trow-bridge (Francis Fulford) for great and small tithes; on 283 a. (in schedule 3)£85 for great and small tithes and £205 for remaining small tithes to thevicar (Richard Crawley), including £5 for small tithes on glebe. Lands inschedule 2 subject to payment by the rector of Trowbridge to the vicarof Steeple Ashton of 3s. a year; schedule 4 shows 252 a. exempt from pay-ment of great tithes and schedule 5 shows 23 a. exempt from payment ofall tithes.

Arable 1,187 a. Meadow 1,391 a. Wood 188 a. Roads etc. 35 a.Owners 88. Walter Long 2,141 a.; Francis Edwards 58 a.; William Stillman

102 a.; Magdalene College 4 a. (rectorial glebe). Vicarial glebe 16 a.Occupiers Walter Long 395 a.Map 1841. 1/4752.

11 STEEPLE ASHTON (2,040 a.)West Ashton tithing

Agreement 27 Oct. 1838, confirmed 3 Aug. 1840.Tithe rent-charge On 2,000 a. £410 to the vicar (Richard Crawley) for

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great and small tithes; on 12 a. (in schedule 2) £3 15s. to the rector ofTrowbridge (Francis Fulford) and ls. to the vicar of Steeple Ashton.

Arable 558 a. Meadow 1,007 a. Wood 350 a.Owners 24. Walter Long 1,255 a.; Susannah Ludlow 350 a.; William S.Whittaker 52 a.

Occupiers Humphrey Flower 72 a.; Walter Long 1,137 a.; Susannah Ludlow350 a.

Map 1840. l/4752.

12 STEEPLE ASHTON (694 a.)Great Hinton tithing

Agreement 13 July 1838, confirmed 3 Sept. 184-4.Tithe rent-charge On 694 a. £120 to Walter Long for great tithes; £75 tothe vicar (Richard Crawley) for small tithes.

Arable 218 a. Meadow 476 a.Owners 15. Walter Long 476 a.; Rev. G. T. Chamberlain 53 a.; JamesWatts 50 a.

Occupiers Sarah Sims 54 a.; William Porter 142 a.; James Watts 50 a.Map 1842. 1/2376. ’

13 STEEPLE ASHTON (1,227 a.)Semington chapelry

Agreement 26 Oct. 1837, confirmed 28 Feb. 1839.Tithe rent-charge On 1,195 a. £180 to Walter Long for great tithes; £145to the vicar (Richard Crawley) for small tithes.

Arable 214 a. Meadow 981 a.Owners 56. All Souls’ College, Oxford, 57 a.; Thomas and William Bruges60 a.; Rev. G. T. Chamberlain 95 a.; Rev. Thomas Gaisford 78 a.; WalterLong 137 a.; Charles Pierrepont, Earl Manvers, 117 a.; Edward Seymour,duke of Somerset, 430 a.

Occupiers Thomas Bruges 57 a.; John Hayward 69 a.; Joseph Ghey 83 a.;James Blake 118 a.; James Pocock 219 a.; Thomas Watts 70 a.; WilliamWhite 96 a.; James Miles 74 a.

Map 1/3168.

14 AVEBURY (4,544 a.)Award 15 Feb. 1845 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 25 Sept.

1845.Tithe rent-charge On 136 a. £38 3s. lld. to John William Hopkins; on206 a. £55 8s. 6d. to Robert Stayner Holford; on 331 a. £82 10s. to WilliamTanner; on 22 a. £5 to the trustees of John Nalder; £90 2s. to the vicar(J. Mayo). On 3,688 a. tithes merged; glebe, 14 a., tithe-free.

Arable 2,300 a. Meadow 350 a. Down 1,880 a.Owners 16. F. A. Carrington 74 a.; Rev. Robert Ashe 358 a.; R. S. Holford76 a.; J. W. Hopkins 55 a.; James Kemm 107 a.; Thomas Pinneger 211 a.Vicarial glebe 14 a.

Occupiers John Gale Reeves 74 a.; Jacob Pinneger 358 a.; John Wentworth


76 a.; Samuel Wentworth 55 a.; Thomas Pinneger 208 a.; Thomas Kemm107" a.

Map 1845. 1/4752.

15 BARFORD ST. MARTIN (2,243 a.)Agreement 28 Oct. 1839, confirmed 3 Nov. 1841.Tithe rent-charge £590 to the rector (Frederick Gambier) for great andsmall tithes, including £25 for great tithes and £5 for small tithes on glebe;on 197 a. £55 to the prebendary of Chute and Chisenbury (MatthewMarsh) and his lessees, the warden and fellows of All Souls’ College,Oxford; on 15 a. £7 5s. to the rector of Baverstock (William Hony).Common meadow, 20 a., exempt from tithe of hay under InclosureAward, 1815.

Arable 1,200 a. Meaclow 289 a. Down 666 a. Wood 82 a.Owners 39. Christopher Crouch 132 a.; Harriett Green 67 a.; RobertHerbert, earl of Pembroke, 1,172 a.; John Hungerford Penruddocke124 a.; Alexander Powell 634 a. Glebe 92 a.

Occupiers Christopher Crouch 130 a.; Harriett Green 223 a.; ThomasBenett 503 a.; James Shepherd 118 a.; Edward A. Nicholson 776 a.;William Targett 70 a.; Alexander Powell 210 a.; James Smith 56 a.

Map 1840. 1/4752.

16 BAVERSTOCK (1,214 a.)Agreement 14 Jan. 1839, confirmed 10 Dec. 1840.Tithe rent-charge £313 to the rector (William Edward Hony) for great andsmall tithes, including £14 for tithes on rectorial and £4 for tithes onvicarial glebe.

Arable 568 a. Meadow 390 a. Wood 243 a. Homesteads and gardens 13 a.Owners 7. Robert Herbert, earl of Pembroke, 166 a.; John HungerfordPenruddocke 593 a.; Alexander Powell 342 a. Glebe 58 a.

Occupiers Earl of Pembroke 166 a.; James Smith 593 a.; Alexander Powelland James Nowlson 342 a.

Map 1840. 1/4752.

17 BAYDONAward 10 July 1845 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept.

1848.Tithe rent-charge On 27 a. £9 10s. to devisee of Richard Townsend; on

12 a. £3 2s. to the vicar of Ampney [Crucis] (E. A. Daubeny); on 4 a.£1 2s. 4d. to John Williams.

Arable 43 a.Owners 2.Map 1848.1/2376.

18 GREAT BEDWYN (9,865 a.)Agreement 8 April 1847, confirmed 25 June 1850.Tithe rent-charge £394 to trustees of Charles Brudenell-Bruce, marquess

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of Ailesbury; £212, including a charge for the vicarial tithes on Wilton,to the vicar (John Ward). On all lands, except those belonging to thetrustees of the marquess of Ailesbury, tithes extinguished; glebe, 2 a.,tithe-free.

Arable 5,989 a. Meadow 1,872 a. Down 880 a. Wood 733 a. Canal, houses,roads, and waste 391 a.

Owners 27. Trustees of Edward Tanner 1,701 a.; marquess of Ailesbury764 a.; executors of the late J . B. H. Tanner 1,697 a. Glebe 2 a.

Occupiers John Miles 885 a.; William Hawkins 775 a.; William Sheppard403 a.; Thomas Potter 263 a.; Anne Edwards 128 a.

Map 1847. 1/4752.

19 LITTLE BEDWYN (4,234 a.)Agreement 5 Sept. 1840, confirmed 31 Dec. 1841.Tithe rent-charge £33 10s., including a charge on 33 a. in schedule 3, totrustees of Charles Brudenell-Bruce, marquess of Ailesbury; £256 12s. tothe vicar (William Skey), and £5 18s. 6d. rent from the Kennet & AvonCanal Company. Glebe, 2 a., tithe-free.

Arable 738 a. Meadow 190 a. Wood 101 a.Owners 6. Sir William Curtis 820 a.; devisees of Stephen Wentworth

70 a.; trustees of the marquess of Ailesbury 129 a.; marquess of Ailesbury3,203 a. Vicarial glebe 2 a.

Occupiers Sir William Curtis and John Brown White 820 a.; devisees ofStephen Wentworth 112 a.; William Hale 201 a.; George Platt 291 a.;Anne Rickens 524 a.; John Wickham 398 a.; John Rushey 67 a.; ThomasPotter 364 a.; Edward Potter 413 a.; George Phillips 117 a.; DavidUnthank 68 a.; marquess of Ailesbury 667 a.

Map 1841. 1/4752.

20 BEECHINGSTOKE (856 a.)Agreement 24 Jan. 1838, confirmed 21 Oct. 1839.Tithe rent-charge On 840 a. £295 to the rector (Edward W. Caulfield) forgreat and small tithes, including £8 for rectorial and £2 for vicarial titheson glebe. 16 a. exempt from tithes.

Arable 640 a. Meadow 187 a. Wood 14 a.Owners 18. Joseph Gilbert 304 a.; Joseph Hayward 475 a. Glebe 30 a.Occupiers Joseph Gilbert 300 a.; Joseph Hayward 456 a.Map 1/2376.

21 BERWICK BASSETT (1,384 a.)Award 27 Nov. 1843 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept.

1848.Tithe rent-charge £305 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (for the lapsedprebend of Calne annexed to the treasurership of Salisbury cathedral), and£10 for tithes on glebe.

Arable 764 a. Meadow 377 a. Down 187 a. Homesteads 5 a. Wood 7 a. Roadsand waste 7 a.


Owners 10. Henry Edward Fox, Lord Holland, 592 a.; representatives ofthe late John Nalder 735 a. Prebendal glebe 46 a.

Occupiers Representatives of the late Joseph Large 149 a.; Simeon Viveash448 a.; Stephen Neate 728 a.

Map 1839. 1/2376.

22 BERWICK ST. JAMES (2,491 a.)Agreement 31 Dec. 1841, confirmed 30 Sept. 1843.Tithe rent-charge On 200 a. in schedule 2 and for l tithes on lands in schedule

3, 407 a. (land of Harry Biggs), £72 10s. to Robert Herbert, earl ofPembroke, as trustee of the charity school at Great Wishford, and £50 tothe earl ofPembroke for rectorial tithes; on 1,327 a. £10 ls. 6d. to AlexanderBaring, Lord Ashburton; £30 lls. to the vicar (Samuel Settle) for vicarialtithes. Remaining rectorial tithes on the lands in schedule 3 merged byHarry Biggs.

Arable 1,474 a. Meadow 1,016 a.Owners 15. Lord Ashburton 1,603 a.; Harry Biggs 824 a. Glebe 1 a.Occupiers E. C. Pinkney 1,620 a.; George Tabor 828 a.Map 1/4752.

23 BERWICK ST. JOHN (3,537 a.)Agreement 1 Nov. 1839, confirmed 31 Aug. 1841.Tithe rent-charge On 2,675 a. £518 to the rector (Richard Downes) for alltithes, including £18 for tithes on glebe. 761 a. tithe-free under InclosureAward, 1794, the rector having received 32 a. of wood in lieu of tithes;41 a., old glebe exchanged with Lord Rivers 12 Nov. 1834, tithe-free;Charles Foot occupier of Manor farm has the right to keep 100 sheep freeof tithes.

Arable 1,202 a. Meadow 245 a. Wood 143 a. Down 1,085 a.Owners 35. Samuel Foot 93 a.; Charles Foot 450 a.; Thomas Grove

1,022 a.; Thomas Grove, junior, 239 a.; Robert Herbert, earl of Pembroke,280 a.; George Rivers, Lord Rivers, 1,443 a. (including 780 a. tithe-free).Glebe 54 a.

Occupiers Charles Foot 626 a.; John Lush 280 a.; Thomas Grove 329 a.;John Lane 424 a.; Thomas Shere 266 a.; Thomas Grove, junior, 239 a.;Lord Rivers 250 a.; William G. Maffey 413 a.

Map 1/7128.

24 BIDDESTONE ST. NICHOLAS AND SLAUGHTERFORD (2,246 a.)Agreement 17 Oct. 1838, confirmed 9 June 1840.Tithe rent-charge £300 to the warden and scholars of Winchester Collegefor rectorial tithes; £165 to the rector (Andrew Quicke) for vicarial tithes.Barrow farm, 89 a., tithe-free.

Arable 1,307 a. Meadow 715 a. Wood 135 a.Owners 63. Stephen Beazer 72 a.; Ruth Beard 67 a.; George Wyndham,earl of Egremont, 330 a.; George Gillett 110 a.; Harry H. Joy 114 a.;

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William Little 272 a.; Walter Long 376 a.; Paul Methuen, Lord Methuen,607 a.; Samuel Mountjoy 154 a. Glebe 1 a.

Occupiers Joseph Bewley 72 a.; John Gibbs 329 a.; George Gillett 173 a.;Harry H. Joy 80 a.; Thomas Little 208 a.; William Gale 60 a.; Ann andWilliam Blake 663 a.; John Matthews 93 a.; Lord Methuen 79 a.; CharlesStubbins 81 a.; John L. Davis 86 a.

Map 1840. 1/4752.

25 BISHOPSTONE (in Downton hundred) (4,265 a.)Agreement 24 April 1838, confirmed 25 Oct. 1839.Tithe rent-charge £969 to the rector (G. A. Montgomery) for great and smalltithes, including £7 10s. for tithes on rectorial glebe. 1 a. tithe-free.

Arable 3,178 a. Meadow and down 1,067 a. Common land 7 a. (2 a. of downlandfor Throope, 5 a. for Netton).

Owners 44. Francis Harding 93 a.; John Jewell 140 a.; Robert Herbert,earl of Pembroke, 2,770 a.; William Rawden 213 a.; Henry Rooke 416 a.;Michael Rooke 52 a.; Elizabeth Rooke 328 a.; William Scapland 56 a.;James Swayne 245 a.; Rev. Thomas Talbot 52 a. Glebe 31 a.

Occupiers John Harding 93 a.; James Swayne 605 a.; William Bracher892 a.; Jehu Lush 53 a.; William Rawden 974 a.; John Sidford 301 a.;Thomas Stagg 610 a. ; Henry Rooke 468 a.;Elizabeth Rooke 171 a.;WilliamScapland 108 a.

Map 1839. l/6346.

26 BISHOPSTROW (1,030 a.)Agreement 4 Sept. 1838, confirmed 26 Nov. 1839.Tithe rent-charge £228 10s. to the rector (J. G. D. Thring) for great and smalltithes, including £3 10s. for tithes on rectorial and vicarial glebe. 79 a.,formerly belonging to Farleigh Priory, tithe-free.

Arable 502 a. Meadow 428 a. (including Down 298 a.) Wood 21 a.Owners 10. Sir John Astley 146 a.; Francis W. Bayly 93 a.; William Temple689 a. Glebe ll a.

Occupiers Joseph Phelps 62 a.; Thomas Bennett 93 a.; Isaac Pearce 633 a.Map 1839. 1/5940.

27 BLACKLAND (537 a.)Award 14 June 1845 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept.

1845.Tithe rent-charge £131 to the rector (William Maurice Macdonald); on27 a. in North field £7 to the rector of Calstone Wellington (WilliamMaurice Macdonald). On 27 a. in Blackland North field tithes merged.

Arable 201 a. Meadow 250 a. Down 29 a. Wood 32 a. Homesteads etc. 16 a.Roads and waste 4 a.

Owners 10. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne, 217 a.;William Tanner 253 a. Glebe 6 a. (tithes already merged on 5 a.).

Occupiers Abraham Carpenter 157 a.; Henry Maundrell 102 a.Map 1/4752.


28 BLAGDEN (89 a.)Award 20 April 1848 (Commissioner George Wingrove Cooke), confirmed

24 Sept. 1849.Tithe rent-charge £12 to Charles Brudenell-Bruce, marquess of Ailesbury.Arable 81 a. Meadow 7 a. Roads 1 a.Owner Marquess of Ailesbury 89 a.Occupiers William Gilbert 84 a.Map 1849. 1/2376.

29 BLUNSDON ST. ANDREW (1,301 a.)Agreement 1 May 1837, confirmed 3 July 1839.Tithe rent-charge £305 to the rector (William Thomas Wyld) for great andsmall tithes.

Arable 613 a. Meadow 662 a. Wood 26 a.Owners 5. Diana Mary Barker 706 a.; John James Calley 137 a.; JohnThomas Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, 309 a.; Thomas Villett 255 a.

Occupiers Richard Packer 250 a. ; John James Calley 557 a. ; Moses Acraman309 a.; Richard Edmonds 255 a.

Map 1837. 1/2376.

30 BOSCOMBE (1,590 a.)Award 30 May 1840 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 28 Sept.

1843.Tithe rent-charge £250 10s. to the rector (Christopher Fawcett); on 241 a.

£94 10s. to Robert Waters. Tithe of milk covered by payment of 2d. a cowand tithes on gardens by 1d. a garden; glebe, 34 a., tithe-free by prescription.

Arable 876 a. Meadow 60 a. Down 620 a.Owners 5. George Matcham 1,315 a.; Robert Waters 149 a. Glebe 34 a.Occupiers Robert Waters 1,304 a.Maps 2 (1 showing common fields), 1839. 1/4752.

31 BOWOOD (970 a.)Award 20 Dec. 1845 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept.

1847.Tithe rent-charge £100 to the dean and chapter of Salisbury; £5 to the vicarof Calne (John Guthrie). 93 a. tithe-free on payment of £5 annually tothe vicar of Calne.

Arable 161 a. Pasture 110 a. Sheep pasture 99 a. Coppice 304 a. Mansion,gardens, and deer park 278 a. Water 18 a.

Owner Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne, 902 a.Occupiers Marquess of Lansdowne 639 a.; William Flower 321 a.Map 1847. 1/3168.

32 BOX (4,136 a.)Agreement 16 April 1838, confirmed 30 Dec. 1840.Tithe rent-charge £408 3s. 8d. (£408 6s. 2d.) to the vicar (H.D.C.S. Horlock)for all tithes except those of corn and grain; £481 16s. 4d. (£481 18s. 10d.)

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to the lay rector (W. B. Northey); on 34 a. £8 10s. to John Fuller; out ofthe impropriate rectory of Box £10 to Henry Brereton, rector of Hazelbury.Payments of 3d. a cow in lieu of tithe of milk and 5s. each for Pinchen’sMill and Crook’s Mill are made; vicarial glebe, 1 a., tithe-free except thatwhen not in the vicar’s hands 2s. 6d. is paid to the lay rector and 2s. 6d.to the vicar.

Arable 2,257 a. Meadow 1,251 a. Wood 263 a. Common 218 a. Gardens 4-4 a.Messuages etc. 102 a.

Owners 100. William Brown 128 a.; John Fuller 394 a.; Henry Hall Joy327 a.; John Jones 126 a.; Walter Long 80 a.; Edward Webb 94 a.;William Wiltshire 58 a.; E. R. and W. B. Northey 2,388 a. Vicarial glebe1 a.

Occupiers William Brown 336 a.; David R. Pinchin 238 a.; George Pinchin50 a.; Henry Poulson 193 a.; William Perrin 91 a.; William Wiltshire183 a.; Thomas Rawlings 65 a.; Christopher Pinnegar 364 a.; WilliamCottle 215 a.; John Edwards 570 a.; E. R. and W. B. Northey 366 a.;John Idols 91 a.; William Mizen 75 a.; John Olman 97 a.; Thomas Tuckey60 a.; Jacob Pocock 165 a.; James Wilton 128 a.; Joseph Pocock 223 a.

Maps 2 (east and west). 1/2376.

33 BOYTON (3,808 a.)Award 11 May 1839 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 17 Aug.

1840.Tithe rent-charge £512 to the rector (William Aldridge) for great and smalltithes, and £5 for tithes on glebe.

Arable 1,087 a. Water meadow 38 a. Pasture 184 a. Orchards 22 a. Down1,369 a. Wood 1,084 a. Roads 52 a.

Owners 19. John Bennett 443 a.; Aylmer Bourke Lambert 2,547 a.; JamesMorrison 346 a.; Ambrose Patient 101 a.; Richard Withers, senior,166 a.; Richard Withers, junior, 74 a. Glebe 24 a.

Occupiers Henry Phillips 443 a.; Ambrose Patient 1,721 a.; Aylmer BourkeLambert 564 a.; James Morrison 346 a.; Richard Withers, senior, 305 a.;Francis Foly 74 a.

Map 1839. 1/4752.

34 BRADFORD ON AVON (11,272 a.)Agreement 13 Nov. 1839, confirmed 4 Nov. 1842.Tithe rent-charge £1,507 2s. (tithings of Borough and Trowle £160, Winsley

£298, Atworth £167, Holt, Wraxall, Leigh, and Woolley £800, LimpleyStoke except the woodland £76 8s., Limpley Stoke woodland £5 14s.) tothe dean and chapter of Bristol for great tithes; £1,000 to the vicar (HenryHarvey) for lesser tithes, and 7s. 6d. for tithes on glebe. 1,004 a., formerlylands of Shaftesbury Abbey, exempt from tithes.

Arable 4,362 a. Meadow 5,956 a. Wood 399 a. Common 209 a. Roads etc. 78 a.BonouonOwners 209. Sir John Cam Hobhouse 343 a.; Charles Pierrepont, Earl


Manvers, 253 a.; William Stancombe 154 a.; Mrs. Esther Yerbury 50 a.Vicarial glebe 3 a.

Occupiers George Spencer 328 a.; John and William Newbury 154 a.;Samuel Bowyer 154 a.

TROWLEOwners 59. Sir John Hobhouse 112 a.; Earl Manvers 468 a.; WilliamStancombe 100 a.

Occupiers William Applegate 171 a.; James Guley 134 a.; Richard Little86 a.; Samuel Bowyer 100 a.

WINSLEYOwners 128. James Baber 132 a. ; Thomas Shewell Bailward 97 a. ; EmmanuelByfield 53 a.; representatives of Charles Conolly 459 a.; Joseph C. Daniel72 a.; Rev. R. B. Fisher 170 a.; John Jones 103 a.; trustees of John Long102 a.; George Melsome 115 a.; John Pinchin and James Antrobus 50 a.;Mrs. Esther Yerbury 177 a.; dean and chapter of Bristol 186 a. (includingrectorial glebe 143 a.). Vicarial glebe 2 a.

Occupiers James Baber 126 a.; Emmanuel Byfield 50 a.; representatives ofCharles Conolly 54 a.; Richard King 245 a.; Jacob Phillips 121 a.; JosephC. Daniel 72 a.; William Angel 168 a.; Thomas Hanks 192 a.; RobertSymons 101 a.; William Rose 115 a.; John Pinchin 50 a.; AlexanderWilkins 59 a.; Isaac Smallcombe 124 a.

LIMPLEY STOKEOwners 30. Robert Cooper 59 a.; Robert Cooper and Joseph Clisild 82 a.;Robert Cooper and Henry John Fisher 111 a.; Henry Toogood Davis135 a.; dean and chapter of Bristol 24 a. (rectorial glebe). Vicarial glebe 1 a.

Occupiers George Rose 59 a.; George Watts 56 a.; Henry Toogood Davis153 a.

LEIGH AND WOOLLEYOwners 116. William Adye 83 a.; Mrs. Ann Atwood 118 a.; T. S. Bailward77 a.; Henry Baskerville 83 a.; Rev. John H. Bradney 118 a.; John Clark276 a.; John Deverell 57 a.; Samuel Everett and the executors of JohnSpencer 67 a.; Thomas Watkin Forster 126 a.; representatives of JohnJones 83 a.; Earl Manvers 212 a.; William Henry Smith 85 a.

Occupiers Cornelius Levins 106 a.; Henry Mizen 118 a.; James Crisp 101 a.;Thomas Spackman 60 a.; John Clark 276 a.; Henry Gerrish 59 a.; JohnHarding 115 a.; Samuel Kendall 52 a. ; George Hulbert 202 a.; Joel Keable72 a.; George Spencer 51 a.

HOLTOwners 67. Mrs. Ann Atwood 69 a.; James Chapman 104 a.; Rev. EdwardEdgell 94 a.; T. W. Forster 748 a.; dean and chapter of Bristol 40 a.(rectorial glebe). Vicarial glebe 1 a.

Occupiers Henry Mizen 60 a.; James Chapman 103 a.; Job Pocock 94 a.;James Godwin 191 a.; John Harding 222 a.; William Butler 50 a.; SamuelChapman 195 a.

WRAXALLOwners 29. Wade Brown 59 a.; Walter Long 1,172 a.; Thomas Mizen

134 a. Vicarial glebe 1 a.

BRADFORD ON AVON 23

Occupiers George Fry 56 a.; John Collet 255 a.; Henry Gishford 75 a.;George Burbage 192 a.; William Moon 193 a.; Walter Spencer 207 a.;John Willshire 223 a.; Mary Ann Harding 132 a.

ArwonrnOwners 67. John Bird Fuller 116 a.; R. H. B. Hale 732 a.; Thomas Heathcote90 a.; Hannah More 79 a.; dean and chapter of Bristol 17 a. (rectorialglebe). Vicarial glebe 2 a.

Occupiers Thomas Hulbert 137 a.; John Tanner Hulbert 75 a.; ThomasEarl 130 a.; James Tanner 84 a.; John Tanner 106 a.; Thomas Heathcote57 a.; John Butler 56 a.; Samuel Pocock 59 a.

Map 1/6336 (town 1/3168).

35 MAIDEN BRADLEY (4,208 a.)Award 1 Aug. 1840 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confinned 31 Dec.

1841.Tithe rent-charge £512 to the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford,and £25 for tithes on glebe. 25 a. tithe-free; 1,037 a. tithe-free on paymentof 3s.; 2d. a cow, llyd. a thorough cow, and 11d. a heifer payable in lieu oftithe of milk. _

Arable 1,400 a. Meadow 1,868 a. Down 506 a. Wood 362 a.Owners 3. John Thynne, marquess of Bath, 185 a.; Edward Seymour, dukeof Somerset, 4,286 a.; Christ Church 75 a. (rectorial glebe).

Occupiers William Jameison 182 a.; John Crees 99 a. ; William Croom 65 a.;James Horn 169 a.; William Nuth 201 a.; Edmund Moody 296 a.; JohnHill 200 a.; William King 350 a.; William Jefl"erys 417 a.; Samuel Jeflerys534 a.; Joseph Harding 655 a.; Stephen Roberts 90 a.; duke of Somerset920 a.

Map 1840. 1/4752.

36 NORTH BRADLEY (3,987 a.)Award 6 Nov. 1841 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 6 June 1846,supplementary award 2 May 1846.

Tithe rent-charge On 460 a. £460 to the warden and scholars of WinchesterCollege for rectorial tithes; £640 to the vicar (Henry Lee) for vicarialtithes. Rectorial and vicarial glebe tithe-free; 403 a. free from tithe of hayon payment of £1 13s. 7d.

Arable 923 a. Meadow 2,751 a. Wood 287 a.BRADLEYOwners 126. Henry Vane, earl of Darlington, and Mary Montagu, countessof Sandwich, 103 a.; Edward Francis 77 a.; George Frowd 91 a.; Rev.Henry Lee 50 a.; Winchester College 54 a. (including rectorial glebe, 20 a.);Walter Long 291 a.; William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley 135 a.; AnnaMaria Whittaker 384 a.; trustees of Bay1ey’s charity 115 a. Vicarial glebe4 a.

Occupiers Peter Keevil, junior, 103 a.; Edward Francis 76 a.; John Frowd87 a.; Walter Long 164 a.; Joseph Pinchin 54 a.; Charles Moore 135 a.;


John Hayden 57 a.; Job Keevil 61 a.; Silas Perett 52 a.; William Phillips174 a.; John Gerrish 67 a.

SOUTHWICKOwners 177. Walter Long 651 a.; Thomas Clutterbuck 298 a.; EdwardFrancis 65 a.; John Greenhill 53 a.; executors of Thomas WhittakerLedyard 203 a.; Edward Horlock Mortimer 105 a.; Job Usher 50 a.; AnnaMaria Whittaker 121 a.; Winchester College 4 a. (rectorial glebe).

Occupiers Thomas Clutterbuck 55 a.; Benjamin Greenhill 93 a.; JamesMoore 124 a.; Edward Francis 65 a.; Reuben Grist 96 a.; James Long194 a.; John Long, senior, 118 a.; John Long, junior, 184 a.; John Pickard70 a.; Job Keevil 121 a.

Map 1843. 1/2376.

37 BREMHILLAward 4 April 1848 (Commissioner George Wingrove Cooke), confirmed

30 Sept. 1848.Tithe rent-charge On 1,029 a. £88 to the vicar (Henry Drury) for great andsmall tithes. On Cadnam farm, 267 a., great and small tithes covered bypayment of a modus of £1; all other tithes extinguished by allotments ofland under Inclosure Award, 1776.

Arable 254 a. Meadow 939 a. Wood 102 a. Roads 1 a.Owners 7. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne, 155 a.;Mrs. Charlotte Starky 65 a.

Occupiers Mrs. Scurr 155 a.Map 1848. 1/7920.

38 BREMILHAM (421 a.)Agreement 7 July 1838, confirmed 4 June 1840.Tithe rent-charge £106 to the rector (Brownlow Patchett) for great and smalltithes. Brokenborough field, 79 a., formerly belonging to MalmesburyAbbey, exempt from tithes.

Arable 178 a. Meadow 144 a. Wood 20 a.Owners 2. Robert Holford 431 a.Occupiers William and Richard Hillier 315 a.Map 1839. 1/4752.

39 BRINKWORTH (5,451 a.)Award 2 Oct. 1840 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 21 Oct. 1842.Tithe rent-charge £740 to the rector (C. Wightwick), and £30 for tithes onglebe. 1,613 a. tithe-free.

Arable 472 a. Meadow 3,181 a. Homesteads 32 a.BnmxwonrnOwners 110. Nathaniel Young 110 a.; James Baskett 58 a.; William Baker288 a.; John B. Seager 98 a.; Henry Edward Fox, Lord Holland, 108 a.;James Robertson 139 a.; Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, 1,793 a. ; RobertStratton 83 a.; Undecimus Stratton 53 a.; William Stratton 103 a.; HarryYoung 76 a. Glebe 152 a.

BRINKWORTH 25

Occupiers William Hall 58 a.; John Ady 216 a.; Thomas Stevens 55 a.;Samuel Heath 60 a.; Nathan Horsell 66 a.; James Robertson 139 a.;Thomas Harding 113 a.; Jacob Clarke 70 a.; Joseph Hunt 172 a. ; AbrahamYoung, junior, 113 a.; Walter Clarke 208 a.; Joseph Moody, senior, 221 a.;Robert Smith 65 a.; Richard Priddy 50 a.; William Potter 152 a.; JohnSmith 90 a.; John Walker 107 a.; John Nicholls 108 a.; Daniel Potter128 a.; Robert Stratton 80 a.; Hungerford Whitfield 53 a.; John Harding103 a.; Maurice Gleed 76 a.; Nathaniel Young 110 a.

GRITTENHAMOwners 5. Lord Holland 1,761 a.; [‘? representatives of Charles HenryMordaunt,] earl of Peterborough [d. 1814,] 74 a.

Occupiers Henry Ady 117 a.; Jacob Burchill 52 a.; Isaac Collingbourne89 a.; John Coster 116 a.; Richard Mills 112 a.; Richard Hathway 176 a.;Joseph Millar 139 a.; Jacob Nicholls 113 a.; Charles Smith 78 a.; RobertStratton 140 a.; David Sutton 89 a.; James Sutton 174 a.; Mary Sutton133 a.; Daniel Young 57 a.; Lord Holland 174 a.; Robert Shingley 72 a.

Map 1/7920.

40 BRITFORD (3,000 a.)Agreement ll May 1838, supplementary award 5 Oct. 1840 (CommissionerAneurin Owen), confirmed 28 Oct. 1840.

Tithe rent-charge £707 12s. 2d. to the dean and chapter of Salisbury forrectorial tithes, including £7 10s. for tithes on glebe; £357 17s. 10d. to thevicar (Robert Morres), including £7 10s. for tithes on rectorial and 10s.for tithes on vicarial glebe. Manor of Longford tithe-free (cancelled bysupplementary award).

Arable 1,798 a. Meadow 705 a. Roads and waste 91 a.Owners 29. Thomas Attwater 60 a.; Rev. Henry Boucher 52 a.; GeorgePurefoy Jervoise 2,118 a. and 39 a. (rectorial glebe); William Pleydell-Bouverie, earl of Radnor, 703 a. Vicarial glebe 2 a.

Occupiers Thomas Attwater 431 a.; Frederick J . Kelsey 77 a.; WilliamGodwin 548 a.; ‘Betty’ Gray 120 a.; Catharine King 128 a.; Thomas F.Newton 911 a.; Isaac Gray 520 a.; earl of Radnor 140 a.

Map 1/4752.

41 BROKENBOROUGH, CHARLTON, AND WESTPORT ST. MARY1Agreement 25 May 1839, supplementary award 28 Sept. 1841 (CommissionerAneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept. 1841.

Tithe rent-charge On Brokenborough and Westport St. Mary £22 to Thomasand Mary Ann Gaby, on Charlton £32 to Thomas Howard, earl ofSuffolk and Berkshire, on Westport St. Mary £10 10s. to Rev. CharlesPitt, and on Brokenborough £34 to the rector of Bremilham (HenryWightwick, the younger) for great tithes; £520 to the vicar of Westport St.

1 It is noted in the agreement that the civil parishes of Brokenborough, Charlton, andWestport were created from the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Westport under 14 Chas.II, c. 12, xxi: Statutes of the Realm, v. 404.


Mary, Charlton, and Brokenborough (George Henry Hely-Hutchinson)for lesser tithes, and £5 for tithes on glebe. King’s Heath tithe-free sincethe time of King Athelstan; on 1,225 a. small tithes covered by a modus of£10, on 328 a. by a modus of £7 15s. 4d., and on 471 a. by a modus of £5;on lands owned by the earl of Suffolk, 7 a. by Robert Stayner Holford, 14 a.by John Hill, 9 a. by R. G. Woodruffe, 5 a. by William Robertson, 56 a. byMary Garlick and Richard Blackford, 9 a. by George Sparks, 10 a. byWilliam Chappell, 5 a. by Giles Canter, 4 a. by William Lyne, 10 a. bySimon and Isaac Salter, 86 a. by Josiah Hanks, 27 a. by William Kent, and6 a. by Charles Ponting tithes merged. £15 to Richard Kinneir and £2 tothe vicar of Malmesbury under supplementary award.

Cnxntron (4,824 a.)Arable 525 a. Meadow 3,248 a. Wood 307 a. Houses etc. 56 a.Owners 15. Samuel B. Brooks 114 a.; Sarah Godwin 87 a.; RichardBlackford and Mary Godwin 172 a.; earl of Suffolk 3,307 a. Vicarialglebe 46 a.

Occupiers Henry Yarnton 114 a.; Henry Godwin 220 a.; Charles Tanner126 a.; William Edwards 180 a.; Charles Godwin 107 a.; Daniel Greenman106 a.; Thomas Wheeler 143 a.; Henry Freegard 177 a.; Martha Lewis199 a.; earl of Suffolk 1,162 a.; Thomas Sisum 188 a.; David Godwin221 a.; Thomas Painter 138 a.; Thomas Lewis 191 a.; Ruth Lea 100 a.;Abraham Clarke 84 a.; John Smith 129 a.; John Westmacott 314 a.;John Walker 160 a.; Thomas Sampson 197 a.; David Cole 203 a.

BROKENBOROUGH (2,332 a.)Arable 870 a. Meadow 1,772 a. Wood 4 a. Houses etc. 12 a.Owners 34. Earl of Suffolk 2,191 a.Occupiers Robert C. Lloyd 81 a.; David Godwin 146 a.; Francis Garlick250 a.; Giles Garlick 226 a.; Thomas Shipton 114 a.; William Osborne528 a.; Thomas Moses 51 a.; John Hill 183 a.; Henry Morris 302 a.; Henryand James Garlick 442 a.

Wrsrronr Sr. MARY (2,036 a.)Arable 335 a. Meadow 970 a. Wood 41 a.Owners 113. John Bennett 66 a.; Henry Edward Fox, Lord Holland, 54 a.;Josiah Hanks 85 a.; Richard Kinneir 116 a.; Malmesbury Corporation542 a.; earl of Suffolk 406 a.

Occupiers Richard Blackford and Mary Garlick 172 a.; William Baker54 a.; John Spackman 85 a.; Benjamin Stiles 102 a.; William Melsome95 a.; Malmesbury Corporation 522 a.

Map 1840 (in 2 parts). 1/7920.

42 BROMHAM (3,594 a.)Agreement 30 Dec. 1841, supplementary award 30 May 1846 (CommissionerAneurin Owen), confirmed 14 June 1847.

Tithe rent-charge On 3,496 a. £800 to the rector (Henry Baynton) for greatand small tithes, including £20 for tithes on glebe. Altered to £800 and £20by supplementary award. Abbots Woods, 71 a., and glebe, 79 a., tithe-free.

Arable 2,399 a. Meadow 927 a.

BROMHAM 27

Owners 78. West Awdry 51 a.; Stephen Gaby 172 a.; Mary Gaby 249 a.;Francis A. S. Locke 499 a.; Charlotte Starky 2,038 a.; trustees of JamesStarkie 55 a. Glebe 79 a.

Occupiers James Butcher 60 a.; Thomas Ball 72 a.; William Spackman,junior, 232 a.; Francis A. S. Locke 153 a.; William Spackman 307 a.;Charlotte Starky 358 a.; Daniel Butler 310 a.; Jacob Butler 570 a.; DanielButler and John Reaves 83 a.; John Gee 136 a.; William Gee 57 a.; JamesLong 54 a.; David Wootten 61 a.; Francis New 55 a.; Samuel Butler 58 a.

Map 1/4752.

43 BROUGHTON GIFFORD (1,677 a.)Agreement 19 Dec. 1839, confirmed 10 Nov. 1841.Tithe rent-charge On 1,395 a. £460 to the rector (Charles Strong) for greatand small tithes, including £10 for tithes on glebe.

Arable 225 a. Meadow 1,388 a. Common land 39 a.Owners 37. Ann Staples 102 a.; Mary Day 209 a.; Rev. Robert B. Fisher

82 a.; Sir John Hobhouse 426 a.; John Keddle, senior, 220 a.; WalterLong 189 a.; William Stancombe 78 a. Glebe 32 a.

Occupiers John Hayward 159 a.; Enoch Isaac 286 a.; William Spackman256 a.; Jasper Sly 78 a.; James Smith 220 a.; John Dark 225 a.

Map 1841. 1/4752.

44 BULFORD (3,475 a.)Agreement 19 Feb. 1838, confirmed 23 Dec. 1839.Tithe rent-charge On 1,690 a. £97 to Anthony Southby for great and smalltithes. The mansion-house and 14 a., Upper Bulford farm, 470 a., 960 a.,and Bulford Manor farm, 1,633 a., formerly lands of Amesbury Abbey,free of great tithes.

Arable 906 a. Meadow 746 a. Wood 38 a.Owners 6. Henry Seymour 1,638 a.; Richard and John Cooe 73 a.Occupiers Francis Stephen Long 1,638 a.; William Bailey 73 a.Map 1838.

45 BURBAGE (3,183 a.)Award 6 Oct. 1840 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), supplementary award

8 Sept. 1844 to determine the date the award should take effect, confirmed30 Sept. 1844.

Tithe rent-charge £687 to the prebendary (J. T. Hurlock) for greater tithes;on 528 a. £348 to the vicar (J. S. Gale) for greater and lesser tithes, and£15 for tithes on prebendal glebe. 2d. a cow payable in lieu of tithe ofmilk;vicarial glebe, 8 a., tithe-free by prescription.

Arable 2,240 a. Meadow 406 a. Down 159 a. Wood 240 a. Roads and waste92 a.

Owners 28. Charles Brudenell-Bruce, marquess of Ailesbury, 3,857 a.;Miss Clarke 90 a.; Rev. Gaisford 66 a.; Major Hartley 84 a. Prebendalglebe 38 a.; vicarial glebe 8 a.

Occupiers Marquess of Ailesbury 316 a.; William Church 231 a.; Thomas


Church 122 a.; George Gale 449 a.; William Henry Gale 287 a.; RobertHighett 273 a.; John Nutley 125 a.; John Scarlett 160 a.; John Cox 90 a.;Thomas Hilliard 66 a.; Henry Cox 84 a.; Sarah Price 128 a.

Map 1/4752.

46 BURCOMBE (1,435 a.)Award 30 April 1846 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 10 July

1848.Tithe rent-charge £175 to the rector of Wilton (J. S. Stockwell) for thegreat tithes of South Burcombe; £11 3s. to the perpetual curate of Bur-combe (J. Phelps) for all other tithes in South Burcombe; £138 to theprior, brethren, and sisters of St. John’s Hospital, Wilton, for all tithesof North Burcombe. 23 a. tithe-free by prescription.

Arable 858 a. Meadow 512 a. Wood 45 a. Homesteads 20 a.Owners 26. Robert Herbert, earl of Pembroke, 1,314 a. Glebe 1 a.Occupiers James Rogers 486 a.; James Stephens 106 a.; John Lush 703 a.Map 1847. 1/4752.

47 BUTTERMERE (1,458 a.)Agreement 10 July 1838, confirmed 6 May 1843.Tithe rent-charge On 1,458 a. £299 to the rector (Nathaniel Dodson) forgreat and small tithes, including 10s. for tithes on glebe.

Arable 1,027 a. Meadow 325 a. Wood 106 a.Owners 8. John Barnes 70 a.; Ann Barnes 59 a.; Richard Canning 59 a.;James Lockhart 1,177 a.; William Woodman 95 a. Glebe 3 a.

Occupiers Ann Barnes 129 a. ; Richard Canning 59 a. ; James Lockhart 80 a. ;Maurice Hissey 550 a.; Robert Perrett 547 a.; William Woodman 95 a.

Map 1/4752.

48 CALNE (8,079 a.)Award 4 June 1842 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), supplementary award

7 Sept. 1844 to include the rector of Blackland and so to reduce rent-charges granted to other tithe-owners, confirmed 30 Sept. 1844.

Tithe rent-charge £1,602 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (for the lapsedprebend of Calne annexed to the treasurership of Salisbury cathedral);£840 to the vicar (John Guthrie); on 112 a. £40 to the rector of Blackland(William Maurice Macdonald). 45 a. tithe-free on payment of £2 annuallyto the vicar; on 374 a. tithes extinguished by allotments of land underInclosure Award, 1818; 5 a. of glebe tithe-free by prescription.

Arable 2,747 a. Meadow 4,138 a. Down 385 a. Homesteads 245 a. Wood 285 a.Plantations, roads, and waste 274 a.

Owners 102. B. J. A. Angel] 157 a.; John D. Bishop 57 a.; Bridget Bishop56 a.; Maria Broome 117 a.; John Brown 73 a.; Hungerford Crewe, LordCrewe, 720 a.; Robert Henley 66 a.; George Heneage Walker-Heneage482 a.; Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne, 3,981 a.; SirJames Money-Kyrle 453 a.; William Samuel Neate 71 a.; representatives

CALNE 29

of Edward Newman 75 a.; Thomas Poynder 652 a.; William Scrope 76 a.;Henry Charles Schomberg 61 a.; William Tanner 82 a. Vicarial glebe 14 a.

Occupiers Charles Pinneger 167 a.; Robert Bowman 76 a.; Robert Stiles364 a.; John Pinneger 66 a.; Benjamin Kington 62 a.; Samuel Bethell 63 a.;Mary Harris 119 a.; William Maundrell 75 a.; Robert Jenner 208 a.; SirJames Money-Kyrle 82 a.; Henry Maundrell 200 a.; Mary Ann Bodman132 a.; William Spackman 63 a.; B. J. A. Angell 154 a.; Thomas Wiltshire117 a.; John Brown 73 a.; James Cole 102 a.; Lord Crewe 111 a.; BenjaminBailey 199 a.; James Ponting 52 a.; Robert Henley 58 a.; John Spackman236 a.; George Spackman 179 a.; G. H. Walker-Heneage 89 a.; NathanAtherton 52 a.; marquess of Lansdowne 458 a.; William Gregory 167 a.;Isaac Sumner 134 a.; Charles Messiter 75 a.; Anne Willis 82 a.; PeterSpackman 106 a.; John Maundre1l394 a.; Jacob Carpenter 616 a.; HenryMaundrell, junior, 92 a.; John Manners 61 a.; Robert Maundrell 121 a.;Abraham Carpenter 51 a.; William Carpenter 133 a.; William Ward 87 a.;William Bewley 65 a.; George Hitchcock 169 a.; William Tanner 85 a.

Map 1843. 1/6356.

49 CALSTONE WELLINGTON (309 a.)Award 16 Nov. 1844 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 4 Sept. 1845.Tithe rent-charge £82 to the rector (William Maurice Macdonald) for allgreat and small tithes. On glebe, 30 a., tithes merged.

Arable 171 a. Meadow 61 a. Down 27 a. Wood 14 a. Homesteads etc. 3 a.Roads 3 a.

Owners 9. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne, 231 a.Rectorial glebe 30 a.

Occupiers Peter Spackman 218 a.Map (3 detached pieces) 1844. 1/4752.

50 ALL CANNINGS (excl. Allington)Agreement 8 Nov. 1838, confirmed 30 Sept. 1841.Tithe rent-charge £1,204 5s. (All Cannings £862 10s., Etchilhampton £315,Fullaway £26 15s.) to the rector (Thomas Anthony Methuen) for great andsmall tithes, and £16 5s. (All Cannings £15, Etchilhampton £1 5s.) fortithes on glebe.

ALL Cxmunos (2,147 a.)Arable 1,504 a. Meadow 722 a. Down 916 a.Owners 16. Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton, 2,476 a.; Simon PileHitchcock 4-40 a.; Mary Millard 154 a. Rectorial glebe 36 a.

Occupiers Charles Hitchcock 1,524 a.; S. P. Hitchcock 921 a.; John Clift190 a.

ETCHILI-IAMPTON (918 a.)Arable 516 a. Meadow 290 a. Wood 16 a.Owners 20. John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge-Erle-Drax 575 a.; GeorgeElgar Sloper 211 a. Rectorial glebe 4 a.

Occupiers John Biggs 137 a.; William Hitchcock 332 a.; Jasper Sims 82 a.


FULLAWAY (108 a.)Arable 15 a. Meadow 80 a.Owners 6. Richard Giddings 65 a.Occupiers Richard Giddings 65 a.Maps 5. Township of All Cannings 1/7920; Etchilhampton 1839, 1/3168;Fullaway 1839, 1/2376; Etchilhampton and Fullaway 1839, 1/7920;All Cannings village 1/2376.

51 ALL CANNINGS (1,153 a.)Allington tithing

Agreement 10 April 1839, confirmed 13 Feb. 1841.Tithe rent-charge On 1,153 a. £264 3s. 6d. to the dean and canons ofWindsorfor great and small tithes, including 4s. 6d. for tithes on glebe.

Arable 550 a. Meadow 124 a. Down 477 a.Owners 7 [including tenants of the earl of Ilchester]. Elizabeth Beake 50 a.;Joseph Crockett 124 a.; James Godwin 71 a.; James Giddings 209 a.;Henry Fox-Strangways, earl of Ilchester, 237 a.; Joseph Parry, the elder,407 a.; Joseph Parry, the younger, 1 a. ([prebenda1] glebe).

Occupiers Joseph Parry, the younger, 850 a.; James Godwin 70 a.; ThomasGiddings 205 a.

Map 1/7128.

52 BISHOP’S CANNINGS (7,491 a. excl. Southbroom, Chittoe, andCoate)

Award 4 Dec. 1848 (Commissioner George Wingrove Cooke), supple-mentary award 31 May 1850 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed30 Sept. 1850.

Tithe rent-charge On 5,612 a. £1,240 19s. 2d. to the bishop of Salisbury; on1,126 a. £245 15s. to Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron; on 163 a. £36 tothe vicar (William Macdonald); on 463 a. £154 6s. 10d. to the l0 ownersnamed in schedule 5. 21; a. and glebe, 24 a., tithe-free.

Arable 2,944 a. Pasture 784 a. Down 3,515 a. Wood 40 a. Homesteads 76 a.Roads, waste, and water 132 a.

Owners 54. Thomas Giddings 163 a.; bishop of Salisbury 5,583 a.; lateGeorge Worrall 604 a.; Rev. Israel Lewis 498 a.; George Ruddle 108 a.;T. H. S. Sotheron 92 a.; Thomas Brown 172 a. Vicarial glebe 24 a.

Occupiers Thomas Giddings 163 a.; Richard Coward 359 a.; GeorgeRuddle 824 a.; Mark Sloper 678 a.; Thomas Brown 1,060 a.; WilliamHarraway 585 a.; Robert Ruddle 725 a.; Elizabeth Ruddle and WilliamKing 95 a.; Sarah Ruddle 89 a.; Martha Ruddle 57 a.; William Brown1,085 a.; James Sloper 54 a.; Thomas Matthews 95 a.; Thomas Pound139 a.; Robert Smith 179 a.; John Burgess 129 a.; William Ettwell 498 a.

Map 1841. 1/4752.

53 BISHOP’S CANNINGSSouthbroom tithing

Award 4 Dec. 1848 (Commissioner GeorgeWingrove Cooke), supplementary

BISHOP’S CANNINGS 31

award 3 April 1850 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept. 1850.Tithe rent-charge On 351 a. £118 5s. 3d. to the bishop of Salisbury; on

103 a. £36 16s. to Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron; on 2,113 a. £662 13s. 6d.to various landowners. On 14 a. tithes declared to have been merged; 24 a.tithe-free.

Arable 1,234 a. Meadow 1,338 a. Roads 76 a.Owners 121. T. H. S. Sotheron 1,750 a. ; bishop of Salisbury 323 a.; HannahSmith 72 a.; Marianne Colston 740 a.; Rev. William Maskell 75 a.; AnnaSusanna Watson-Taylor 213 a.

Occupiers Marianne Colston 195 a.; William Cooke 455 a.; Rev. WilliamMaskell 75 a.; Richard Coward 559 a.; Edward Davies 175 a.; JohnWillis 105 a.

Map 1841. 1/4752.

54 BISHOP’S CANNINGS (1,100 a.)Chjttoe tithing

Award 19 Aug. 1848 (Commissioner George Wingrove Cooke), confirmed19 Dec. 1849.

Tithe rent-charge On 8 a. £2 6s. 8d. to the vicar (William Macdonald).Arable 510 a. Meadow 533 a. Wood 43 a. Homesteads 10 a. Roads, water,and waste 4 a.

Map 1/9504.

55 BISHOP’S CANNINGS (1,389 a.)Coate tithing

Award 16 June 1848 (Commissioner George Wingrove Cooke), confirmed19 Dec. 1849.

Tithe rent-charge £324 to the vicar (William Macdonald); on 296 a. £112to John Clift. The following are impropriators of all the tithes on theirlands: Jane Brown, 8 a., £2 ls.; Elizabeth Lyne, 93 a., £23 5s.; George E.Sloper, 30 a., £7 10s.; Anna Susanna Watson-Taylor, l a., 5s.

Arable 1,007 a. Meadow 317 a. Wood 2 a. Homesteads 32 a. Roads 31 a.Owners 23. Elizabeth Lyne 91 a.; Elizabeth Clark 294 a.; John SamuelWanley Sawbridge-Erle-Drax 796 a. Glebe 9 a.

Occupiers Elizabeth Lyne 91 a.; Robert Wild 294 a.; Mary Benjamin352 a.; Jane and Mary Cooksey 79 a.; Robert Wild and others 290 a.

Map 1341. 1/4752.

56 GREAT CHALFIELD (683 a.)Agreement 13 Sept. 1837, confirmed 6 Oct. 1855.Tithe rent-charge £164 to the rector (Richard Warner) for great and smalltithes.

Arable 303 a. Meadow 379 a. Wood l a.Owners 3. Sir Harry Neale 598 a.; Robert Hale Blagden Hale 89 a.Occupiers Thomas Hulbert 296 a.; William Spackman 302 a.Map 1839. l/2376.


57 BOWER CHALKE (2,965 a.)Award 30 Dec. 1842 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 3 May 1844.Tithe rent-charge £352 to the provost and fellows of King’s College,Cambridge, for great tithes; £100 to the vicar (Stephen Hawtrey) forsmall tithes. Rectorial glebe, 1 a., and vicarial glebe, 1 a., tithe-free.

Arable 1,028 a. Meadow 114 a. Down 766 a. Cow Down 97 a. Furze l0 a.Homesteads 32 a. Wood 852 a. Roads 65 a.

Owners 54. Thomas King 260 a. and 1 a. (rectorial glebe); Col. RichardBingham 145 a.; Robert Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke, 1,773 a.;William Parham 288 a.; Alexander Powell 111 a.; John Rebbeck 70 a.Common land 97 a.; vicarial glebe 1 a.

Occupiers Mary Habgood 145 a.; William Rooke 717 a.; earl of Pembroke846 a.; Charles Large 409 a.; Henry Soffe 111 a.

Map 1843. 1/6336.

58 BROAD CHALKE (6,484 a.)Award 30 Dec. 1842 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), supplementary awardcancelling a rent-charge allotted to the earl of Pembroke 16 May 1844,confirmed 29 June 1844.

Tithe rent-charge £763 to the president and fellows of King’s College,Cambridge, for great tithes, and £22 for tithes on rectorial glebe; £147 tothe vicar (Stephen Hawtrey) for small tithes. On 1,138 a. great tithespreviously extinguished by an allotment of land to King’s College; onrectorial glebe woods vicarial tithes covered by composition real, i.e. thevicar’s right to cut 300 faggots a year, and on the remaining rectorial glebeby payment of 5s. a year; on Stoke Verdon farm, 111 a., great tithes coveredby payment of £1 a year to King’s College, other tithes by payment of£2 12s. 4d. to the vicar; vicarial glebe, 23 a., exempt from tithe.

Arable 3,643 a. Meadow 54 a. Down 2,098 a. Pasture 140 a. Wood 323 a.Furze 18 a. Homesteads 56 a.

Owners 61. John Thynne, marquess of Bath, 526 a.; Cornelius Gould 50 a.;Thomas Harford 102 a.; King’s College 62 a.; Thomas King 193 a. and129 a. (rectorial glebe); Robert Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke, 4,777 a.;Alexander Powell 235 a.; William Woodcock 124 a.; George B. Young324 a. Vicarial glebe 23 a.

Occupiers Reynold Randoll 526 a.; Charles Maffey 335 a.; William Rooke255 a.; Thomas Barnett 480 a.; William Barnett 470 a.; earl of Pembroke157 a.; Alfred Morris 353 a.; William Rixsen 702 a.; James Stevens 506 a.;Robert Stevens 313 a.; John Self 918 a.; Mary Sidford 431 a.; G. B.Young 384 a.; George Wright 441 a.

Map 1843. 1/6336.

59 CHARLTON ST. PETER (1,619 a.)Award 10 July 1840 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 4 June 1841.Tithe rent-charge £246 to the dean and chapter of Oxford and on 468 a.

£114 to the vicar for great tithes; £18 to the vicar for lesser tithes. Vicarialglebe, 3 a., tithe-free.

CHARLTON ST. PETER 33

Arable 645 a. Meadow 77 a. Down 896 a. Lanes and waste 7 a.Owners 6. John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge-Erle-Drax 203 a.; George F.Fowle 150 a.; Welbore Ellis Agar, earl of Normanton, 1,342 a. Vicarialglebe 3 a.

Occupiers Henry Wansborough 350 a.; George Pike 687 a.; John Simpkins610 a.

Map 1/4752.

60 CHERHILL (1,794 a.)Award 21 Feb. 1844 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 27 July

1846.Tithe rent-charge On 30 a. £7 to George Heneage Walker-Heneage; £340to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (for the lapsed prebend of Calneannexed to the treasurership of Salisbury cathedral); £1 5s. to the vicarof Calne (John Guthrie) for the remaining tithes on homesteads. Allremaining tithes covered; vicarial glebe, 49 a., tithe-free.

Arable 907 a. Meadow 319 a. Down 465 a. Gardens 25 a. Plantations 30 a.Owners 64. G. H. Walker-Heneage 1,108 a.; Thomas Neate 174 a.; RobertPottow 82 a. Prebendal glebe 14 a.; vicarial glebe 49 a.

Occupiers G. H. Walker-Heneage 84 a.; John Neate 498 a.; Robert Pottow108 a.; William Salter 230 a.; George Spackman 92 a.

Map 1843. 1/4752.

61 CHICKLADE (1,003 a.)Agreement 16 Nov. 1837, confirmed 17 Aug. 1838.Tithe rent-charge £205 to the rector (John Still) for great and small tithes,including £12 for tithes on glebe.

Arable 670 a. Pasture 42 a. Down 280 a. Wood ll a.Owners 18. Trustees of James Ames 60 a.; John Candy 355 a.; SusannahHall 139 a.; James Mortimer 131 a.; Richard Randall 177 a. Glebe 34 a.

Occupiers George Wigmore 199 a.; John Candy 532 a.; John Knight 131 a.Map 1838. 1/5280.

62 CHILMARK (3,135 a.)Agreement 9 Jan. 1837, confirmed 1 April 1840.Tithe rent-charge On 3,129 a. £479 5s. Oid. to the rector (Francis Lear) forgreat and small tithes, including £4 8s. 6d. for rectorial tithes and £1 9s. 6d.for vicarial tithes on glebe. Tithes on 4 a. covered by a modus of ls. andon 300 store sheep by a modus of 1d.; 1 a. tithe-free by prescription.

Arable 1,674 a. Meadow 250 a. Wood 142 a. Common 1,063 a.Owners 30. Robert Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke, 2,485 a.; Henry King

75 a.; Matthew Davies 62 a.; James Flower 296 a.; Mary Helm 109 a.Glebe 30 a.

Occupiers Frederick King 1,940 a.; Thomas Warne 223 a.; William Bowden207 a.; Henry King 75 a.; Matthew Davies 62 a.; Thomas Fricker 115 a.;James Flower 296 a.; Mary Helm 109 a.

Map 1839. 1/4752.


63 CHIPPENHAM (4,187 a. excl. Stanley, Nethermore, andTytherton Lucas)

Award 28 June 1847 (Commissioner Aneurin Owen), confirmed 30 Sept.1848.

Tithe rent-charge On 28 a. £7 5s. to the

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