KINETON HUNDRED BRAILES DIVISION. 1011 sold to William Underhill. Capt. Henry Peach Keighly Peach is lord of the manor and principal owner of the soil. The CHURCH, dedicated to St. J ames, is an ancient Gothic stone edifice, consist~ ing of nave and chancel and tower, wiih one bell. There is a fine Norman arch and font. It contains a neat monument to the Peach family. The Register dates from 1556. The living is a Rectory, value, K.B. £13 6s. 8d. now £230, in the patronage of Capt. H. P. K. Peach, and incumbency of the Rev. E. R. Birch. Tithes commuted in 1842 for £300. Here is a school for boys and girls of Idlicote and Whatcott parishes. 1!frs. ]I,farga1'et Unde1'hill, by will, 1780, bequeathed £100 to the minister, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor, upon trust, for the use of the poor. This money was invested in the purchase of £175 Is. 6d. Consolidated Three per Cent. Annuities. The annual dividend is distributed about Christmas, in articles of clothing to the poor. DIRECTORY. Rev, Edwin Robert Birch, rector; John Jesop, Esq., Idlicote House; John Gilks, blacksmith and parish clerk. The Farmers are Henry Hancox, William and George Harris, Badgers' Fa1'm; J onathan J arrett, White Hou.s8 Farm; and Fredk. Wm. Spencer, Hill Farm. PILLERTON HERSEY PARISH. PILLERTON HERSEY, or Lower Pillerton, is a small village and parish, 3i- miles S,W. by W. from Kineton, in the Southam Division of the County, Shipston-on-Stour Union and County Court District, Rural Deanery of Kineton, and Archdeaconry and Diocese of Worcester. It contains 1,354a. 3r. 26p. of land, and, in 1871, had 239 inhabitants. Gross estimated rental, £2,093 15s.; rate­ able value, £1,853. At the Conquest this place belonged to the Earl of Chester and Hugh de Grentemaisnill. In the 1st of Richard n., the manor was forfeited by the owner for committing felony, and given to Hugh de Hercy, whose posterity enjoyed it for many years; and from that family it obtained its present appel~ lation, to distinguish it from Pillerton Priors. After various changes, the manor was, in 1580, owned by Thomas Throckmorton, and from 1593 to 1638, was in the possession of the UnderhilIs, who.