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The Manor of Alderton 3rd edition
The buying and selling of land, carried on in the previous generation,
continued with Giles – in 1544 he was involved, along with his mother and
her new husband George Worth, with selling property in Trowbridge 109
and Melksham 110
Giles married Edith Hall of Bradford (on Avon) who is remembered by the
earliest monument left in Alderton church, a stone in the floor inscribed
Queen’s reign. These records of payment give information on the owners of
record of Alderton, and also the Bailiffs of Chippenham Hundred – these are not
the Bailiffs of Chippenham, as recorded by Goldney; this was a different office.
The first receipt was made out by Thomas Coleman, who held the position for
some time – he also issued receipts for the same rent on 28 Oct 1561. His name
also appears on receipts made out to Giles’ son, Richard, in 1567. 1569, 1570,
1575, and 1576. The receipts for the other half of the year 1576 do not appear
and the next record is for April of 1577, 1578 and 1580 so Thomas was Bailiff
for at least 22 years. The receipts for 1581 to 1583 are under the hand of
Roger Smythe, Bailiff, as was the one for April 1584 which is to Mrs Mary Gore,
Richard having died in that year. The next is made out to Mr Wroughton of
Alderton (whom Mary had married not very long after her previous husband’s
death), and in the receipts of 1585 and 1586 The Grange is mentioned by name,
those of 1587 and 1588 only mention Alderton again.
By 1594 the bailiff was John Bryggs, who receipted for two years’ rent, and
finally Richard Taylor was paid £30 [ £3,019] for two years’ rent in 1597 by
George Wroughton.
Probably, I think id need the contexct here, it might be a question an
exclamation: “Wjhat?
109 Gore, T (1666) Syntagma Genealogicum or A genealogical treatise of the
family of the Gores of Aldrington or Aldertonp p127 Sold property to Walter
Bayliff of Devizes May 23 rd and Alexander Longford senior and junior “Castle
Mill in Trowbridge and diverse other land in Trowbridge” (Heading of an
indenture that Thomas did not transcribe in full)
110 Gore, T (1666) ibid p132 The property in Melksham was sold on 5 th July to
Henry Brouckner “all his houses and their messuages, lands and tenements,
meadows, pastures, commons, wood etc in the townes parishes and fields of
Melksham, Wytley Shaw, Send, Sendrewe, Woodrow and Wulmer for £100
[£20,051] in hand”
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