containing by estimation 24 acres, out of Kingsmeale feild containing by estimation 23 acres, out of part of part of Burford feild ar. containing by estimation 12 Acres, out of Pike mead containing by estimation 8 Acres, out of Broad Mead containing by estimation 14 Acres, and out of Mill Mead conteyning by estimation 6 acres The yearly vallue of the said tythinge is reputed to bee worth communibus annis xij Noe lease produced. This Lease to bee produced. Wiltes.1 CHALKE HUNDRED. Ebbesborne Rectoria. A Survey of the Rectory and Parsonage of Ebbesborne Wake with all the rights members and appurtenances thereof scituate and being in Com. Wiltes late parcell of the possessions or late belonging to Francis South clerke late Sub-chaunter of the Cathedral Church of the Virgin Marie of Sarum made and taken in the month of February 1649 by vs whose are herevnto subscribed by virtue of a commission to vs granted grounded vppon an act of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament for the abolishing of Deanes (&c., as above). Annuall rents reserved. Cleare vallues and Improvements per annum. All that Parsonage or dwellinge house conteyning a Hall, a Butterie two chambers over a barne of 3 bayes of building a little Garden togeather with a parcell of meadowe or backside therevnto adjoyninge conteyning in toto per estimacion 02. 00. vli One parcell of meadowe in the common meadowe of Ebbesborne aforesaid adjoininge to an acre of meadowe there belonginge to the parsonage of Broadchalke conteyning per estimation 00. 02. xxx3. Certaine parcells of arr. land lyinge dispersedly in the common feild of Ebbesborne contayning per estimacion 40. 00. xvli A certaine parcell of ground and coppice lying and being in Cranborne Chase conteyning per estimacion 04. 00. xiij3. iiija. Totall number of acres- -46. 02. xxij". iijs. iiija. There is belonginge to the said Parsonage The Tythe of the Moytie or halfendeale of all the corne and graine growen within the said Parrish of Ebbesborne (th'other moytie thereof belonginge to a Priory there) which moytie belonginge to the said parsonage is vallued per annum lxxx1. There is belonginge to the said Parsonage the Tythe of Hey growen within the said Parrish of aboute 50 acres per estimacion vallued per annum vij11. x3. There belongeth alsoe to the said Parsonage all the Tyth of Wooll and Lambe groweinge and renewinge yearely within the said parrish togeather with all small tythes arisinge there worth per annum xx1i. There is alsoe belonginge therevnto pasture for 140 sheepe in the common feilds and Downes of the said Parrish which is vallued with the arrable lands before mencioned. 1 Lambeth Parl. Surveys, Vol. XV., pp. 181-183. Alsoe common of Pasture on the same feilds and downes for sixe rathour beastes and 3 horses vallued per annum xxijs. vja. Sum total is -cxxx1i. xv3. xa ̧ The Minister there is a Stipendarie and to be provided and paid his wages by the Lessee as appeareth by his covenant. All which premisses that is to saie all that the Rectorie & Parsonage of Ebbesborne Wake and all manner of houses Edifices, buildings Glebe landes meadowes leauses pastures common of pasture Tithes oblaciones profitts,obvencions commodities emolumentes hereditamentes with all and singuler their appurtenaunces to the said Rectorie and Parsonage belonginge or in any wise apperteyninge or with the same Rectorie and premisses or with any part or parcell thereof vsuallie occupied or enjoyed and all that copice of wood and woodie ground with th'appurtenaunces belonginge to thesaid Rectorie or Subchauntershipp of the Cathedral Church of Sarum cont. per estimacion iiij acres be it more or lesse lying and being in Cranborne Chase were by Indenture dated 3th Septembris 1639 15 Caroli demised by Francis South clerke Subchaunter of the Cathedrall Church of Sarum and parson of the Parsonage and parrish Church of Ebbesborne Wake in the Countie of Wiltes to the same office of Subchaunterchipp appropriate vnited and annexed vnto Thomas Baskett of Dwillish in the Countie of Dorsett Esqr. and John Bingham of Quarleston in the said County of Dorset Gent. Habendum vnto them and their assignes for the lives of Bridgett Baskett sister of the said Thomas Basket, and Robert Baskett, and of Thomas and Marie Basket son and daughter of Robert Basket and the longest liver of them the said Bridget Thomas and Marie vnder the yearely rent of viij1i. & iiija. at the feasts of th'annunciation of the Virgin Marie and St. Michaell The Arch-Angell by even porcions but are worth vppon Ymprovement over and above the said rent per annum cxxij1. xvs vja. The Leassees for themselves and their assignes doe covenant to build repaire make and amend the Mansion house of the said Parsonage with all other houses edifices and buildinges belonginge to the Parsonage duringe the Terme and soe to leave it and also duringe the said terme at their owne proper costes and charges to find one sufficient able minister Curate or Chaplin from tyme [to tyme]' to serve the cure of Ablesborne (sic) Wake and alsoe to paie all Tenthes fifteenthes subsidies proxes Synodalls and all other charges, ordinary and extraordinary whatsoever to bee paid and goeing out of the premisses as well to the Kinge and his successors as to the Bishopp of Sarum Archdeacon or anie other Person whatsoever (Firstfruites for the said Parsonage thereafter to bee due only excepted) and alsoe all the said Terme to keepe and preserve the Hedges and boundes of the Coppice aforesaid soe farr as it may bee donne by the custome or the lawe within the said Chace. And after anie fallinge of the wood of the same coppice shall preserve and keepe the springs of the same wood from hurt and spoyle soe longe tyme as the same ought to be kept & preserved by the lawes and Statutes of the Realme. And in the end of the terme shall leave it soe preserved. If the rent bee behind by the space of 6 weekes then a reentrey. 1 Omitted in MS. All the lives in beinge Bridgett aged 32 Thomas 12 and Marie 13. The estate in the premises is now in Mr. William Penny of Ebbesborne aforesaid. [Witnesses] Wat. Foy Jo. Squibb Chr. Weare Geo. Fairley. Exam. per Will. Webb Supervisor Generall 1649. Dates from endorsement :-Recept 11 Martii 1649. Transmiss: Supervis: General die supradicto. Revers. 14. Martii 1649. Rec. Junii 18. 1650. Retorn'd into the Registers office for keepenge the Survayes of Deanes & Chapters lands the 20th May 1650. Davys Taylor William Stisted Edmond Mountjoy Henry Langley Surveyors. Ex. per Will. Webb. 1650. Exr. Ra: Hall. Registr. Depnt. [To be continued.] WILTSHIRE NEWSPAPERS-PAST AND PRESENT. Part III.1 THE NEWSPAPERS OF SOUTH WILTS. By MRS. HERBERT RICHARDSON, B.A., sometime Scholar of St. Hugh's College, Oxford. The history of the South Wilts newspapers forms an interesting and important section of the larger history of the newspapers of the county as a whole. It is proposed to deal with this section as exhaustively as available data admit, treating not only of the actual newspapers, on a strict definition, which once existed or still exist in the southern part of the county, but also of such periodical publications as have appeared from time to time, which, though not quite technically newspapers, are yet on the border line of the definition and have real interest from the journalistic, historical, or political point of view. Allowing this latitude of definition, the subject may be grouped under four distinct headings: 1. The earliest Wiltshire newspaper, and other short-lived Salisbury papers of the eighteenth century. 2. The oldest existing Wiltshire newspaper-the Salisbury and Winchester Journal. 3. The Salisbury Times and other Salisbury papers of the nineteenth century. 4. Wilton and Warminster papers. 1. THE EARLIEST WILTSHIRE NEWSPAPER, AND OTHER SHORT-LIVED SALISBURY PAPERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Salisbury papers of the eighteenth century. The Salisbury Post Man (1715-16 c.), The Detector (1786-7), The County Magazine (1786-92). The Salisbury Postman (1715—16 c.). 1 For Parts I. and II., by Mr. J. J. Slade, see Wilts. Arch. Maq., The earliest Wiltshire newspaper, The Salisbury Post Man, a small folio publication of 1715-16 c., of which only two copies are known to exist, has an interest out of all proportion to its size and scanty file. The two existing copies1 are both duplicates of the first number, the one perfect, the other minus its last leaf. Hatcher, in his History of Salisbury,2 mentions a copy "in my possession " of "No. 40 for March 1st, 1716," but all efforts to trace this later number have proved fruitless. From the available copies of the first number and from other sources, it is, however, possible to piece together some facts concerning this important early provincial newspaper and its enterprising promoter, Samuel Farley. The Salisbury Post Man is a small folio publication, measuring 11 inches by 7, identical in size with the oldest of all existing English newspapers (as it was at that date), The London Gazette, but containing a sheet and a half instead of The Gazette's usual half-sheet, six pages instead of two. The reverse of the title-page is blank, but the other pages are printed in two columus with a five-eighths of an inch wide margin to the page. The type is bold but dirty, a defect for which the printer apologises in a naïve postscript on his last page:-"N.B. You are desir'd not to take Notice of the Foulness of the Character, having received the Damage in carriage and will take some time for cleaning. Vale!" The paper itself is hand-made, thick and of fair quality, the lines marked by the sewing-wires about an inch apart, and is further watermarked by a large device of a shield bearing crossed bâtons tipped with fleurs-de-lis, enclosed in two acanthus leaves and surmounted by a crown. The ornamentations of the title-page are the conventional newspaper wood-cuts (a little "damaged," like the type), on the left a mounted post man, whipping up his horse, and on the right a three-masted ship in full sail. The title-page itself runs as follows: The Salisbury / Postman: / Or / Packet of Intelligence / From France, Spain, Portugal etc. / Saturday, Sept. 27th, 1 In the possession of Messrs. Bennett Bros., proprietors of The Salisbury and Winchester Journal. Chapter XLII. 2 3 Watermark only visible in incomplete copy, which is much damaged. |