Its owners and some historical connections - Lackham Countryside ...

The Manor of Alderton 3rd edition
There appear to be, or have been, records for this trusteeship in Bath
Public Library 86 :
an indented gift by William Gore son of William Gore
to Edmund Hungerford, knight, John Botler, Thomas
Poynes John Dewall, Robert Blake, Henry Longe, John
Lyght, esquires (armigerii), Master Hugh Thomas,
clerk Robert Unwyn, Thomas Hasard and Richard
Kaynall his manor of Aldryngton and all his lands and
tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, rents,
services and reversions in Melkesham, Yatton Kaynall,
Aldryngton, Sherston, Llockyngton and Lacok except a
messuage and a cotland in Melkesham called
Johoseppes and a messuage and 2 virgates of land in
Aldryngton called Kyngeswodes grange. Covenant for
re-entry and distraint if the feoffees shall, on
request, refuse to re-efeoff [ie give back] the donor
or, after his death, his son Thomas
but this record is dated 25 January 1447 and Pafford records that
Letters of Attorney were issued to the same people in July of 1448 87
However an addition 88 indicates that the date is “In reddish-brown ink :
? 16-17 th century” - in other words possibly / probably a later insertion; it
is not impossible that the “47” was a mistake for “74”, in which case there
is no conflict with the other records . The bulk of the evidence, and not
only from Thomas Gore, is that this happened in the 1480’s not the
1440’s.
85 On the same day they also bought Legges Place but The Grove is the property
that appears in the records most often.
86 Pafford, JHP (1956) Wiltshire Deeds in the Bath Public Library p171
87 Pafford, JHP (1956) ibid p173
88 Pafford, JHP (1956) ibid gives the names of the witnesses to this transfer –
John Harres of Cheppynham, Thomas Gore son of said William Gore, Nicholas
Gore, John Tanner, Nicholas Pont’, William He’, Richard Lucane, John Bacon,
John Neline, William Hobbys & 6 others (all of Alderton)
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