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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANOR-HOUSE.
In Domesday Book it is thus noticed under t—
“ XXV. Terra Ernylfi de Hesding. Ipse Er. ten. Caldefelle. Wallef.
tenuit T. R. E. 7 geld. j). II. liid 7 dim. Tra. e. II. car. De ea. e in dnio. 1 liida. 7 difh.
7 ibi. I. caf. cu. 1. servo. 7 IIII. bord. Ibi dim molin. redd XVII. den 7 VI. ac. ‘ pti. 7 VI.
ac siluse 7 VIII. ac. pasturae. Valluit IIII. lib. Modo. L. solid.’ #
“ Ipse Er. ten. in ead. villa tantd tfee uno Godvin tenuic T. R. E. Ibi tantd habet
qtu in supiori ctinet 7 tfftd appciat.”f
In Edward the First’s days, the Manor of Great Chalfield was a whole knight’s
fee, and was held by knight’s service, by one Sir William Rous, of the Earl of
Salisbury, as part of the honour of Trowbridge (which honour belonged to the
duchy of Lancaster), free from all services and demands ; and, by virtue of this
manor, Rous and the Lords of Chalfield, for the time being, were constables of
Trowbridge Castle.J To this office belonged a place in Trowbridge called the
Logge Place, afterwards the site of a garden called the Logge Plot. Great Chal-
field afterwards came into the possession of a family of the name of Percy,
which, from the arms shewn in Plate VI. Ecclesiastical Arckitecture, viz. azure,
five fusils in fesse or, § must have been a younger branch of that of William de
Percy, a Norman chieftain, who accompanied William the Conqueror into Eng-
land, and left four sons and two daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest
son, Alan de Percy, surnamed the Great, who was succeeded by his eldest son,
William de Percy, at whose decease the eldest branch of the first race became
extinct in the male line, and his whole inheritance devolved upon his two
daughters, Maud and Agnes; by which circumstance, and the marriage of the
latter (the former dying sine prole') with Joceline Barbatus, the ancient Percy
arms were lost, although the surname was retained.
* Domesday Book, 70 A.
t This refers to Little or West Chalfiei.d.
t Old MS. in the possession of William Waldron, Esq., of Lipiat: “ In the 4th of King Stephen, when Maud ”
“ daughter to King Henry I. (commonly called Maud the Empress), landed in England with her brother Robert,”
“ earl of Gloucester, Humphrey de Boliun, at the incitation of Milo, earl of Hereford, his wife’s father, fortified his ”
“ Town of Trobregge, against King Stephen, in such sort as that it was impregnable.”— Dugdale’s Baronage, Vol. i. 179.
§ These were the ancient arms of ’lPcrcp, until Agnes, daughter and coheiress of William Percy, married Joceline,
younger son of Godfrey Barbatus, duke of Lower Lovain and count of Brabant. Her ladyship would not consent of
this great alliance unless Joceline would adopt either the surname or the arms of Percy ; the former of which he
accordingly assumed, and retained liis own paternal coat in order to perpetuate his claim to the principality of his father,
should the elder line of tlie reigning duke at any period become extinct. The matter is thus stated in the great
old pedigree at Sion House : “ The antient arms of Hainault this Lord Joceline retained, and gave his children the
surname of Percy,” who afterwards became Dukes of Northumberland. — Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, Vol. ii.
p. 241. London, 1832. See, also, Gough’s Sepulcliral Remains, Vol. i. Part xcv. Drake’s Antiquides of York,
Plate at p. 535, which are the arms drawn by some curious person from the windows of the Cathedral and Chapter House,
in a.d. 1641, most of wliich were existing when Drake wrote.
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANOR-HOUSE.
In Domesday Book it is thus noticed under t—
“ XXV. Terra Ernylfi de Hesding. Ipse Er. ten. Caldefelle. Wallef.
tenuit T. R. E. 7 geld. j). II. liid 7 dim. Tra. e. II. car. De ea. e in dnio. 1 liida. 7 difh.
7 ibi. I. caf. cu. 1. servo. 7 IIII. bord. Ibi dim molin. redd XVII. den 7 VI. ac. ‘ pti. 7 VI.
ac siluse 7 VIII. ac. pasturae. Valluit IIII. lib. Modo. L. solid.’ #
“ Ipse Er. ten. in ead. villa tantd tfee uno Godvin tenuic T. R. E. Ibi tantd habet
qtu in supiori ctinet 7 tfftd appciat.”f
In Edward the First’s days, the Manor of Great Chalfield was a whole knight’s
fee, and was held by knight’s service, by one Sir William Rous, of the Earl of
Salisbury, as part of the honour of Trowbridge (which honour belonged to the
duchy of Lancaster), free from all services and demands ; and, by virtue of this
manor, Rous and the Lords of Chalfield, for the time being, were constables of
Trowbridge Castle.J To this office belonged a place in Trowbridge called the
Logge Place, afterwards the site of a garden called the Logge Plot. Great Chal-
field afterwards came into the possession of a family of the name of Percy,
which, from the arms shewn in Plate VI. Ecclesiastical Arckitecture, viz. azure,
five fusils in fesse or, § must have been a younger branch of that of William de
Percy, a Norman chieftain, who accompanied William the Conqueror into Eng-
land, and left four sons and two daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest
son, Alan de Percy, surnamed the Great, who was succeeded by his eldest son,
William de Percy, at whose decease the eldest branch of the first race became
extinct in the male line, and his whole inheritance devolved upon his two
daughters, Maud and Agnes; by which circumstance, and the marriage of the
latter (the former dying sine prole') with Joceline Barbatus, the ancient Percy
arms were lost, although the surname was retained.
* Domesday Book, 70 A.
t This refers to Little or West Chalfiei.d.
t Old MS. in the possession of William Waldron, Esq., of Lipiat: “ In the 4th of King Stephen, when Maud ”
“ daughter to King Henry I. (commonly called Maud the Empress), landed in England with her brother Robert,”
“ earl of Gloucester, Humphrey de Boliun, at the incitation of Milo, earl of Hereford, his wife’s father, fortified his ”
“ Town of Trobregge, against King Stephen, in such sort as that it was impregnable.”— Dugdale’s Baronage, Vol. i. 179.
§ These were the ancient arms of ’lPcrcp, until Agnes, daughter and coheiress of William Percy, married Joceline,
younger son of Godfrey Barbatus, duke of Lower Lovain and count of Brabant. Her ladyship would not consent of
this great alliance unless Joceline would adopt either the surname or the arms of Percy ; the former of which he
accordingly assumed, and retained liis own paternal coat in order to perpetuate his claim to the principality of his father,
should the elder line of tlie reigning duke at any period become extinct. The matter is thus stated in the great
old pedigree at Sion House : “ The antient arms of Hainault this Lord Joceline retained, and gave his children the
surname of Percy,” who afterwards became Dukes of Northumberland. — Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, Vol. ii.
p. 241. London, 1832. See, also, Gough’s Sepulcliral Remains, Vol. i. Part xcv. Drake’s Antiquides of York,
Plate at p. 535, which are the arms drawn by some curious person from the windows of the Cathedral and Chapter House,
in a.d. 1641, most of wliich were existing when Drake wrote.