1 168 PURTON. WILTSHIRE. [ KELLY S
(particulars of the union will be found under W ootton varying from 15s. to [,4: poor persons once admitted to Bassett). Nevil Maskelyn -esq. who died about 1789, the bene>fit of this char~ty :receive it for life. The church, • left £5 to the poor, and a payment of Ios. to a erected in I 868, but unconsecrated, is a small edifice of minister for preaching a sermon on Good Friday; the brick, with western turret containing one bell, and has former sum is distributed to all the poor who attend sittings for 100 persons : the services are conducted by church on Good Friday, in shil1ings and sixpences, and the t·he vicar of Purton. Here is a Primitive MethQdist present vicar allows his 1os. to be also distribuood : chapel with 8o sittings. The area of the hamlet is 1,478 Francis Gleed left £2oo to be. given to the poor not acres; rateable value, £1,462; the population in 1891 receiving parochial aid, in sums o.f not less nor more than was 63. Ios.; Hiscock's charity is also given away on Good National School (mixed), built in 1857• with house for Friday. At Ringsbury, near the village, is a Roman mistress; placed under government in 1876; enlarged camp with a double ditch, the outer one being very in 1882 to hold 6o children; average attendance, 51; perfect; at Red Street, in the parish, a battle was l\Irs. Harriet Boulton, mistress fought between the Royalists and Parliamentary forces. The famous Lord Clarendon once resided at Purton, in Wall Letter Box (by school) cleared at 9 a.m what is now a farmhouse, called " The College. Farm." Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, There are four manors in this parish-the Hreat Manor, Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office, Purton. of which Cornwallis Wykeham Martin esq. J .P. is lord; Miss Annie White, sub-postmistress. Letters through Purton Pouchere, of which Charles M. Beak esq. is lord; Sw~ndon at 4 a.m. & 2 p.m. ; sundays, 4 a.m. only; Purton Keynes, of which Thomas Glenn esq. is lord; dispatched at 12.40 & 7.40 p.m.; sundays, IO a.m. and the Little Manor, which includes Purton Common. Money orders are issued & paid from 8 to 8 The principal landowners are James Henry Sadler esq. Letter Box at Railway station, cleared ab :12.50 p.m. & J.P. of Lydiard House, Swindon, M. H. St(}ry-Maskelyne 7·45 p.m esq. J.P., F.R.S. of Bassett Down House, Swindon, and Wall Letter Boxes-Church End, cleared at 7 p.m. ; Charles M. Beak esq. The soil is oolite-brash; subsoil, sundays, 10 a.m.; Peavenhill, cleared at xo a.m. & clay. The chief crops are wheat on the higher lands and 6 p.m. ; Square, cleared at g. 15 a.m. i& 6.20 p.m.; some pasture ; the area is 6,446 acres of land and 19 of Bentham, cleared at 5.10 p.m water; rateable value, £17,021; the population in 1891 Schools. was 2,432, exclusive of Braydon, and including 59 officers and inmates in t!he Cricklade Workhouse. National (mixed), built by subscription in x86o, .& having an endowment of £I7 ws. yearly, cha,rgeable on At PURTON STOKE, 2 miles north in this parish, is lands in the occupation of Mrs. Brown, & a residence a mineral spring, said to possess great medicinal powers, for master & mistress; the school will hold 350 chil the waters of which are extensively made use of. There dren; average attendance, 105 boys & 92 girls; Frank is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1867. Drew, master; Mrs. F. Drew, mistress Wall Letter Box here, cleared at 5.20 p.m Infants', erected 1884, for 100 children; average attend ance, 75; Mrs. Ada Woodward, mistress National School (mixed), built in 18~ & placed under Police Sergeant, Edward Trollope government control in 1896; it will hold 100 children; average attendance, 70 ; Francis John Barnes, master Union House, Sidney William Maundrell, master; Mrs. E. R. Maundrell, matron; Harry Bevir, clerk to BRAYDON, or Bra don, is a hamlet to the west of guardians Purton, and was a forest until the fifth year of the reign of Charles II. when it was disafforested, and in Railway Station, John Lee worthy, station master lieu of the right of feeding their cattle in the forest and Carriers to: of picking wood, the rent of 25 acres of land at Purton Cricklade & Cirencester-Leonard Barnes & John Selby, Stoke was given to the poor; the distribution is made on mon. & fri t·he first Thursday after the 6th of January, the sums Swindon--John Selby, wed.; Leonard Barnes, thurs PURTON. Bunce Charles, beer retailer & shop- Scott Mark, farmer, Bentham keeper, Pavenhill Seymour George, farmer PlUVATE RESIDENTS. Burgess John (Mrs.), baker, High st SheppardWm.& Sl.saddlrs.&hrnss.mas Bathe Miss, High street Clark Abraham, cowkeeper Sheppard Tom, farmer, Pavenhill Beak Charles M Clark Charles, brick maker, Green hill Sheppard Sidney, blacksmith Booker George, High street Cook Richard, farmer, Bentham Shurey Jeremiah, beer retailer Brockmore Miss, Norbury house Coombe Thnma3 Sandby B.A.Cantab., Simkins Job, farmer, Hayes knoll lhown Edw
school fl•r bovs,• Hillside house Mitcham Edward, tailor, High street Wilkins Geo. Edwd. butcher, High at Baker J,,hn, farmer Morse Wm. Jas. coal merchant,Station Wilkins William, farmer, Widham Barnes Francis, carpenter & under- Newman Harry, grocer & beer retailer Williams Abednego, coal mer. Station taker, Station Ody George, farmer, Pry Woolford Waiter, coal merchant Barnes Wm. Frnk. carpenter, Witts la Paginton Charles, farmer Willis Ambrose A. coach bldr. Station Baverstock John, chemist Paginton George, seedsman Workmen's Institute & Coffee Tavem Eeak ClwTles M. farmer & landowner, Panting Thomas, grocer (Henry Borton, manager) Mauor f