Catalogue description THE 'TETBURY' LANDS

There seems to be a connection between the six charters concerning Crudwell, Hankerton, and Long Newnton (Wilts.), particularly between those for Crudwell and Hankerton. The two parishes were adjacent, were both connected with Richard de Urdley (although the Richard of 1386 was not necessarily the same as the Richard of 1423), and were both manors of nearby Malmesbury Abbey. The estate in Hankerton held by Richard Urdley and his wife Margaret in 1388 and 1394 was possibly that called Moredon. It was later divided and in the 16th century one portion was called Urdley's. The other had been sold in 1440 by Richard Urdley's descendant Alice Parfet and her husband Thomas Hasard to John Hibberd[VCH Wilts, xiv. 98. Richard Prefet and John Hubert witnessed Richard Urdley's charter of 1386.] There are also links between Richard Urdley's Hankerton charter of 1423 and the Long Newnton charter of 1461, principally the occurrence of John West in the first and his son and heir Robert in the second, and of Thomas Everard in the first and William Everard in the second. All three parishes lie on or near the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire border and close to Tetbury (Glos.), which Long Newnton adjoins.[Long Newnton was transferred from Wilts. to Glos. in 1930.] The Berkeleys inherited Tetbury in 1500 as coheirs of the Breouses of Tetbury;[Cf. above, p. 702 BCM/D/3 Administrative history.] Kingswood Abbey also held land in the immediate vicinity at Culkerton.[Cf. above, pp. 860, 871 BCM/F/1/3, BCM/F/1/6.]