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

The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
For the rest of his life after returning to Alderton he devoted himself to the
study of antiquities and heraldry, becoming “one of the greatest proficients of
his age” 258 , and it was in this connection that he became a great friend of John
Aubrey, there are frequent “Qauere T. G.” in Aubrey’s Wiltshire Collections 259 .
Alderton has a further connection with this important work by Aubrey: for
many years it was thought that the “second volume in folio” which Aubrey
refers to in this work, was the second part of the book in the Bodleian Library.
Jackson, however, found that there had in fact been another volume, which had
been borrowed from the Ashmolean Museum by William Aubrey, John’s brother,
in August 1703 and never returned. 260 William died without issue four years
later, the last of the family – he is buried in Kington St Michael.
The rest of the story was later discovered, mainly by
Jackson himself. He found a note in Warton’s History of
Kiddlington (1783) which stated that the manuscript was at
this time partly in the Ashmolean and partly in the Library
at Alderton 261
At that time Alderton was owned by the Montagu’s and it seems likely that the
manuscript was dispersed in the sale of the Montague property in 1815/16. No
further trace has been found.
Aubrey had mortgaged his estate at Broad Chalk to Thomas and Charles 262 .
Thomas and Aubrey eventually fell out and Aubrey is recorded as having called
Thomas “a fiddling, peevish fellow” 263 and “”a bore and the narrow soul’d
258 Thomson J (