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This information is from the book   Wiltshire Collections   by John Aubrey and John Jackson, published by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society* in 1862.

The text was written by John Aubrey in the 1660s, the notes by John Jackson, in the 1860s.


Page 334
BROAD-HINTON [*1]


"John de Tybetot had one Knight's Fee in Broadhinton, co. Wiltes; which Fidena Wase holds at £6 132. 4d.   And one, in Over-Worston (Over-Wroughton) in Wilts, which the Abbot of Tewkesbury holds at £10."   From Harl. MSS.

(Church)


In the chancel; in brass on a flatt marble, thus:

Hic jacet Johes Wrofton Armiger qui obiit xbi die Aprilis Anno Dni MCCCCXXIX. Cuius aie ppicietur Dues.   Amen.

Here in his effigies in armour, but the scutcheons are lost.

Chancell, North wall; in freestone:

"Here lyeth Sir William Wroughton, Knight, who dyed in the 50 yeare of his age in Anno Domini 1559, and left yssewe of his body by Dame Elinor, his wife, daughter of Edward Lewknor, Esqr. four sonnes and three daughters, and builded the howse of Broadhenton, Anno Domini 1540."

The crest is a human head to a horse's neck.   [*2] The Arms (Pl.xxix. No.443) WROUGHTON. Supporter, naked boy with wings, but no bow.   The same coat repeated.   WROUGHTON impaling LEWKNOR (No. 444).

(Chancel.   South Wall.)

Two figures of Sir Wm. (read Sir Thomas, son of Sir William) Wroughton, and his lady (Anne dau. and coh. of John Barwick Esq. of Wilcote):   4 sons and 4 daughters.

On the South side, on the wall, are the figures aforesaid, a large monument of freestone with pillars, without any inscription, but with these Arms:   (No. 445) WROUGHTON, as before, quartering 1. Norreys) [*3]   2. 3 bends with a border. [*4]   3. Arg. a chevron engrailed Gu. between 3 unicorn's heads, erased, Az.

Sir John Glanville, Knt., Serjeant at Lawe, lies buried in this Chancell; only a penon hangs over him with his coate, (No. 446).

"Memoriae Sacrum Johis Glanville Militis, Servientis ad Legem Caroli primi et Caroli secundi, filii Johis Glanville de Tavistoke in Com: Devon: tempore Reginae Elizabethae unius Justiciariorum de Communi Banco natu secundi:   Communium in Parliamento Proloquutoris, hujus Manerii Glanvillorum primi emptoris et proprietarii.   Obiit 2d. die Octobris A.D. 1661

Hoc monumentum propriis sumptibus posuit Winifreda Glanville ipsius Johis dum vixit uxor amantissima, nunc vidua maestissima, 29 die Sept. A.D. 1673."

In the N. wall of the Chancell is a statue of alabaster, and about the niche of this monument is a tedious Latin Inscription: but this is the substance of it.

"Erected to the memory of Francis Glanville, eldest sonne of the Serjeant, who was a Lieutenant- Colonel in the service of King Charles the First, obijt xxi day July, AEtat. 28, 1645, at the siege of Bridgwater, in Com. Somerset."

In the North side of the Church, in a windowe, is an old scutcheon (No. 447).

* Notes

[1]   Called Broad, or Hinton Magna, to distinguish it from Little Hinton in Elstub and Everley.   The parish lies part in Selkley, part in Kingsbridge Hundred.

There appear to have been two chief estates at Hentone, or Hantone, at the Conquest.   1.   The Fee of Humphrey de Insula, afterward Tibetot's and Dunstanville's, of their Barony of Castle Combe.   2.   Gilbert de Breteville's; who also had Cliff, and Back-hampton.

I.   That part of the parish which is in Selkley Hundred, was held of the Castle Combe Barony by the Wase family (see "Blountesdon") in 1392:   afterwards by Wm. Wrofton, Worston, or Wroughton, by whose descendants it was held for about 200 years.   The house was built by Sir William Wroughton in A.D. 1540.   (For their Pedigree see Wilts Visit. 1565 and 1623.)   About A.D. 1640 the estate was bought from Sir Giles Wroughton by Sir John Glanville (second son of John Glanville, Judge of C.P.), a very celebrated Sergeant-at-Law, and Speaker of the House of Commons.   (See Chalmer's Biog. Dict.)   The purchase is mentioned in his epitaph, added to Aubrey's Text. He is said (but quoere) to have burned Broad Hinton House, in order to prevent its being garrisoned by the Parliament.   John Evelyn visited here.   (Diary, 1654.)

Mr Bernard Burke in his "Romantic Records of distinguished Families" (volume i.p.1) has worked up a story of "The Glanvilles," the facts of which he states to have been "gleaned with much labour and almost grain by grain," but his authorities are not given.   The outline of it is, that Sir John Glanville, the Judge, disinherited Francis his eldest son for his wildness, and gave certain estates to his younger son John the Serjeant:   that a Mr William Crymes of Killworthy near Tavistock, having been saved from assassins by Francis in the streets of London interceded for him with Sir John the father on his death bed, but too late:   that Francis afterwards adopting a steady life and following with diligence the study of the Law, married Elizabeth Crymes the daughter:   that John Glanville upon hearing of this event and being satisfied of his brother's entire reformation invited him to dinner, placed him at the head of his table and desired him to raise the cover of the dish before him.   Its contents, though dry, were not unsavoury to Francis; being a bundle of parchments, which which the estates were transferred to himself.   There are some monuments of the Glanville family at Tavistock, co. Devon.

A correspondent of the Devizes Gazette, March, 1858, who claims to speak upon authority, states that "The descendants of Sir John Glanville became reduced, and in the early part of the 17th century sold the estate to Thomas Benett Esq.":   (A Subsidy Roll of A.D. 1639-40 gives the names of William, Julius, and the Lady Glanville, as separate contributors at Broad-Hinton in that year.)   "From Mr. Benett this estate, as well as that of the Norbornes, and also the Salthrop estate, passed to his daughter, Mrs. Pye Bennett, formerly of Salthrop.   On her death the estates passed to her daughter Mrs. Calley, the wife of Thomas Calley, Esq. of Burderop, and on her death to her son, the late John James Calley Esq.   He sold them to John Parkinson Esq., of Lincoln's-inn-fields, who, however - as it turned out upon his death, a few years ago - purchased, and held them as trustee, for the great Duke of Wellington."   The Broad-Hinton and Salthrop estates have been since bought (about 1860) from the second Duke of Wellington by Anthony M. S. Maskelyne Esq. of Basset's Down.

A small portion of Wroughton's lands were bought, 31 Eliz. by George Sadler.

II.   The part of the parish which lies in Kingsbridge Hundred was held by Bretville at the Conquest:   afterwards the Fee of Bigod the Earl Marshal:   under which (like Cliff) it was possessed in Edw. I. by the Columbars family:   and in 1316 by the Lords Covham.   This includes Ufcote:   which afterwards belonged to the Lovells of Titchmarsh, (see Wanborough.)   On the attainder of Francis, last Viscount Lovell, in 1485, Ufcote was granted to William Compton ancestor of Lord Northampton, by whose family it was sold with Elcombe, Wicklescote, &c., to Thomas Sutton, Founder of the Charter House, London.

A Sir Thomas Hinton of Broad-Hinton who married Elizabeth Gawen of Imber is mentioned by Sir R. C. Hoare (Heytesbury, p. 163).   Cotmarsh maintains the Duchess of Somerset's General Charity.

The Rectory of Broad Hinton belongs to St. Nicholas Hospital Sarum:   the Master of which presents to the Vicarage.   The first presentation under this patronage appears to have been A.D. 1478.

[2]   "Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam, &c.," but the usual crest of the Wroughton family was, An ibex's head, Arg., pellettee, collared, ringed and armed Or.

[3]   This quartering ought probably to be, Argent, a chevron between 3 ravens' heads, sable:   being really the shield of Ravenscroft of Cotton End.   On the marriage of the heiress of that family with John Norreys of Bray, co. Berks., temp. Edw. III., he assumed his wife's Arms.   Anne, daughter of Sir Wm. Norreys, married William, grandfather of Sir Thomas Wroughton.   (See "Wilts Visit." A.D. 1565, in Harl. MS., No. 1565, p. 31.)

[4]   This quartering ought to be, Bendy of siz, Azure and Or, a bordure Gules; for Merbroke of Yattendon, Berks; a family whose heiress Alicia had married Sir John Norreys.





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