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A MEMOIR 
 
 OF 
 
 THE GODDARDS 
 
 OF 
 
 NORTH WILTS 
 
 fllampiled fiiom ^ntl^ni ^i^mth lliigifiterfi, iwul 4iimil]r ^ii^m, 
 
 BY 
 
 RICHARD JEFFERIES. 
 
 COATE, SWINDON 
 

 A MEMOIR 
 
 GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS 
 
 ORIGIN. 
 
 THE history of England is the history of great families : and, 
 following the same general rule, the history of Swindon, since it 
 became a place, is, in fact, the history of the family of Goddard. The 
 name of Goddard occurs in documents of the highest antiquity ; which 
 fact is warrant for an etymology reaching back into the dim ages of ante- 
 historic Europe. 
 
 The Northmen of Norway and Denmark, in their hundred clans, or 
 separate kingships, though often ruled by the strongest hand, traditionally 
 acknowledged the right divine of the descendants of Odin. To that man- 
 god their kings invariably traced their origin, as did our Saxon monarchs, 
 whose genealogy is given in the Saxon Chronicle. This heirship from 
 Odin, or Woden, was their claim j this genealogy their title to the crown. 
 
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 He whose descent was undoubted was a Godr — one of the sacred race — 
 able to ofFer sacrifice in his double office of priest and king. When the 
 land became too crowded, or the spirit of adventure stirred them, a 
 member of the sacred race stepped on board his nailed bark, and, fol- 
 lowed by a small band of warriors,, sailed away to Iceland. There he ran 
 his ship ashore, took possession of the soil, and, consecrating a spot to 
 Odin, became the Godord, or priest-king. Not only to Iceland, but to 
 the Hebrides, and the Isle of Man, and at last to England itself, did these 
 Northmen carry their customs, extend their conquests, and leave the firm 
 impress of their footsteps. Even so late as the eleventh century, the king 
 of Norway attempted to invade England, but was repulsed by Harold at 
 Stanford-bridge. Only a century or so later, documentary evidence shows 
 the existence of a family bearing the name of Goderville — variously spelt 
 Godarvyle, and Godardville. The " ville " is the well-known Norman- 
 French affix, and was no doubt adopted at the time of the Conquest, and 
 not originally a part of the name ; because, a generation or two later, it 
 was dropped. These Godervilles gradually gravitated down at Chippen- 
 ham, and from them are descended the North Wiltshire Goddards of this 
 day. The primary word, Goder, in this old family, existing only a century 
 later than the last Northmen's invasion, clearly shows an origin in the 
 Godr — the sacred race of Odin, and the Godord (now Goddard) — 
 the priest " after the order of Melchisedec," who was both priest and king. 
 
 The history of the Isle of Man bears singular testimony to this 
 etymology, by presenting an actual line of princes bearing the name of 
 Goddard. 
 
 In A.D. 920, a Prince Orry, of Denmark, conquered the Orkney 
 
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 Isjands, the Hebrides, and Man ; and took the title of King of Man and 
 the Isles. His arms were a ship with sails set. His son Guthred suc- 
 ceeded him, and built the fine old Castle of Rushen, in whose vaults he 
 was finally interred. Succeeding him came Reginald j Olave ; Olave, his 
 brother; Allen; Macon; and, eighthly, Godred, or Goddard — last of 
 the Danish line, and described as a bad prince. 
 
 When the king of Norway invaded England with Tosti, and was 
 defeated by Harold at Stanford-bridge in a.d. 1066, he had with him 
 Godred Crovan, son of Harold, king of Iceland. After the battle, Godred 
 Crovan fled to Godred, king of Man, for refuge ; but afterwards went 
 back to Norway, and brought over an army with the object of dethroning 
 his protector. The old king was now dead, and his son Fingal — a name 
 redolent of Ossian — held the crown, but was defeated and slain. Godred 
 Crovan immediately usurped the throne. He conquered Dublin, the 
 Orcades, and Hebrides, and was finally succeeded by Lagnan in a.d. 
 ic82. Next came Olave, his brother, after whom the kingdom was 
 taken possession of by Magnus of Norway. On his death^ Man fell to 
 the third son of Godred Crovan — Olave — in iio2. After him succeeded 
 Godred, who was elected king of Leinster ; but was compelled to divide 
 Man and the Isles with Somerlid, thane of Argyle. Olave succeeded 
 Godred, and, after having been ousted from possession by an illegitimate 
 brother, was restored to the throne by Henry III., who gave him forty 
 marks, five tuns of wine, and one hundred quarters of corn per annum, 
 on condition of his guarding the coast. He reigned fifty years, and died 
 in 1237 at Peel Castle. Then in succession came Harold ; Reginald, the 
 second son of Olave ; and Magnus, third son of Olave, who died in 1265, 
 
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 and was interred in Rushen Abbey. Mary, daughter of Reginald, was 
 exiled from Man by the Scots, who now seized it, and came to England. 
 She married John Waldebeof, who tried in vain to reinstate her. A 
 descendant of Mary married Sir William Montacute, who was restored 
 by Edward III., and crowned king of Man in 1344. Montacute sold 
 it to Scrope ; and the island finally fell to the Derby family of Stanley. 
 
 To this day, the peasantry of Man regard with superstitious reverence 
 a gold cup of ancient workmanship, which they call, " Goddard's Cup.** 
 A cup is preserved with the inscription, " Ufo, the son of John, the son 
 of Magnus, prince of the land of Man, the grandson of Liakia Macgry- 
 neil. Oneil Oimre made this in the year of our Lord 993." This cup 
 possibly may have been in the possession of the more celebrated Godred, or 
 Goddard, last of the Danish line, whose tyranny left a strong impression ; 
 or of either of the other Godreds, and thus became identified with them. 
 
 In later times, a very handsome glass goblet, holding nearly a quart, is 
 said to have been possessed by each of the many branches of the Goddard 
 family, one of which still remains in the hands of Mr. Goddard, of Cliffe. 
 It is a fine piece of workmanship. In Anglesea there is in general use a 
 particular kind of driiiking-cup which is called a " Goddard ;*' and the 
 Welsh of that island have a common phrase referring to it, and, when 
 any one asks for drink, they say, " Reach me a Goddard." A peculiar 
 cup was often identified with a particular family in ancient times, and 
 looked upon with superstitious veneration. Such was the "Luck of 
 Edenhall,** which Longfellow celebrated in the poem : — ■ 
 
 *' 'Twas right that a gublct the Luck should be, 
 Of the joyous race of Edenhall." 
 
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 In Sir Walter Scott*s Novel, " Peveril of the Peak," much of the 
 scene of which is laid in the Isle of Man, and is an accurate description 
 of the place, Peveril receives an appointment from Alice : " Meet me at 
 noon, at Goddard Crovan's Stone." .... "The monumental stone, 
 designed to commemorate some feat of an ancient king of Man, which 
 had long been forgotten, was erected on the side of a narrow, lonely 
 valley, or rather glen, secluded from observation by the steepness of its 
 banks — upon a projection of which stood the tall, shapeless, solitary rock, 
 frowning, like a shrouded giant, over the brawling of the small rivulet 
 which watered the ravine." The monument is also spoken of as " the huge 
 grey stone." Goddard Crovan appears in the foregoing list of the kings 
 of Man. Curiously enough, a member of a branch of the Goddards of 
 North Wilts has been mistaken for a Manxman by natives of the Island ; 
 as if the original features of the race had been repeated by Nature at 
 this distance of time. 
 
 The name of Goddard occurs in " Domesday Book " in the county 
 of Leicester. Three persons of that name are recorded in the Winton 
 "Domesday," as possessed of land in the reign of Henry I. — a.d. iioo 
 — 35. In 1202, the Chancellor's Rolls contain entries relating to the 
 Goddards of Leicester and Norfolk. Thomas Godard had land at Mid- 
 dleton, in Norfolk, in 1233. Alanus, Godard, Alicia. Edmund, Gilbert, 
 Henry, Walter, Hugh, John, and Reginald — all appear in different places 
 in the Hundred Rolls, Henry HI. and Edward I. — a.d. 1216 — 1307. 
 Ada, daughter of Robert Goddard, had land at Ribbelesdale, in Yorkshire, 
 in the time of Edward II. Ihere were Goddards in Shropshire in 
 Edward II. and HI. Ricus. Goddard, alias Richard le Usshere, is men- 
 
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 tioned, Edward III. ; and Thomas Goddard was of Surrey in the same 
 reign. In 1358, Nicholas Goddard, of Middlcton, Norfolk, was fined. 
 The arms of the Norfolk Goddards are not the same as the Wiltshire. 
 In 1379, Nicholas and Walter Goddard occur as possessors of land. In 
 Richard II., or Henry IV., Walter Goddard married the heiress of 
 Denvers. Robert Goddard, his son, had land in Walpole. In the 
 Visitation for Norfolk, 1433, Robert Goddard appears among the gentry. 
 He was interred at Terrington in 1448. Sir John Goddard, of the same 
 family, was Governor of Louviers, Normandy, in 141 8. In 142 1, John 
 Goddard, Chevalier, had manors, lands, and tenements in York and 
 Lincoln — one place being called Rolleston, a Swindon family name, after- 
 wards associated with Goddard through Vilett. His son, John Goddard, 
 succeeded to his possessions. In 1432, Henry Goddard had lands in 
 York. In the same reign, Henry VI., Margaret, wife of John Goddard, 
 Salop, is mentioned ; also Isabella Goddard, concerning mines of gold, 
 ^nd silver, and lead, in Devon and Cornwall. In 1433, Goddard appears 
 in the Visitation for Berkshire. 
 
 It was towards the reign of Henry III. that the Goddard family 
 made their settlement in North Wilts. In that reign and in Edward I. 
 the name frequently appears. In 34 Henry III., a.d. 1250, the Inqui- 
 sitions after Death record, Walter Goderville, land, etc., at Cheverel"!, 
 and Chippenham manor. 57 Henry III., a.d. 1273, Walter Goderville, 
 Sudgwell manor, Bedford. Again Walter de Godarvyle, Breve-tantum, 
 Bedford. In the Testu Nevilli, Henry HI. and Edward i., Walter 
 Godarville, a fief and a half in Burton, Northampton. Walter de 
 Godarvillc, half a hide of land in Pcdrichesham, Dorset. Walter de 
 
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 Godarvill, in Lcskered and Tinarney, half a fief. Walter dc 
 Goderville, holding in Chipeham ; and Emma la Warr under him. 
 There is some reason to think that Walter Godardville held land at 
 Aldbourne. 
 
 In 1231-32, Walter Godardville was made castellan of Devizes 
 Castle, either by its owner, Lord Ralph Willington, or directly by Henry 
 III. The Bishop of Winchester attempted to supplant Godardville by his 
 nephew, Peter de Rivaulx ; and thus to obtain the custody of Hubert de 
 Burgh, Earl of Kent, and once grand justiciary, who was a prisoner in the 
 castle, with a view to his assassination. On the i6th June, a.d. 1233, 
 Henry, who was at Woodstock, wrote a letter to Godardville warning him 
 not to leave Devizes, or to allow stores to be taken into the castle. The 
 king sent again two days later, permitting Godardville, if the Sheriff of 
 Wilts should require his assistance, to accompany the sheriff with an armed 
 force to the house of Gilbert Bassett, of Compton, to carry out the royal 
 mandate — always provided, it was so ordered that nothing could be 
 conveyed into Devizes Castle during Godardville's absence. In 1234 
 Godarville received an order from the king to despatch horses and arms 
 to the assistance of the Earl of Brittany. Godardville appears to have 
 enjoyed the confidence of the monarch. He died in 1273. 
 
 His son, John Godard de Poulton, near Marlborough, was succeeded 
 by a second John Godard de Poulton, who appears from 1386 to 1434; 
 living in the reign of Richard II., and in the days of John of Gaunt. If 
 the tradition that John of Gaunt gave an estate to the Goddard family 
 at Upham, in Aldbourne, be founded on fact — and there is nothing 
 to contradict it or make it unreasonable — it was probably tfiis John 
 
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 Godard who received the gift, and stood face to face with Shakespere's 
 famous character — 
 
 " Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster," 
 
 His son, Walter Godard, of Cherhill, appears in 1460 j and was 
 succeeded by his son, John Godard de Upham, or, as then spelt, Uppam, 
 who became a large landed proprietor towards the end of the fifteenth 
 century ; and was in fact the founder of the family. He possessed 
 property at Standen-Hussey, ClifFe Pypard, Swindon, Berwick Bassett, 
 Clatford, etc., and established his sons in those places ; from whom 
 branched out the Goddards of Engleshaw, South Marston, Castle Eaton^ 
 Rudloe, Hartham, Purton, etc. He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
 William Berenger, of Manningford Bruce ; and died on the lOth March, 
 1545. His second son, Thomas, was the ancestor of the Goddards of 
 Swindon. His eldest son, John, became the ancestor of the Goddards of 
 ClifFe Pypard, the senior branch of the family. 
 
 THE SENIOR BRANCH. 
 
 The ancient manor of ClifFe Pypard is mentioned in Dome^^day Book ; 
 and is easily distinguished from a number of other ClifFs or Clives by the 
 allusion to Tornelle, now Thornhill. The entry runs : — 
 
 " GiSLEBERT DE BrETEVILLE. 
 
 " The same Gislebcrt holds Clive. Aluric, and Burgel, and Godevc 
 held it in the time of khig Edward, and it was assessed at sixteen hides, 
 
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 wanting a yardland. Here arc seven ploughlands. Ausfridus holds of 
 Gislebcrt eleven ot the hides, and there are three ploughlands in demesne, 
 and seven servants. Three villagers, two borderers, and ten cottagers 
 occupy two ploughlands and a half. The mill pays five shillings. Here 
 are fifty acres of meadow, seventy acres of pasture, and eighteen acres of 
 wood. One of these eleven hides is in Tornelle which was in Clive in 
 the time of king Edward. There are two borderers, and two servants 
 in Clive. Here are sixteen acres of meadow and seventeen acres of 
 pasture, holden under Gislebert. This is worth thirty-five shillings. 
 What Ausfridus holds is worth six pounds." 
 
 Later the family of Ouentin had possessions here. William Ouentin 
 held a knight's fee in Clive, probably at Bupton, Henry HI. and Edward 
 I. A fine brass in the church of a knight in full armour is considered to 
 commemorate a Quentin, though the inscription is lost, chiefly from its 
 place in the Bupton aisle. The date has been conjectured to be near 
 1380, the armour being of the style worn in the reign of Richard H. 
 
 At the same period the Cobham family was settled in Clive. In 1530 
 William Dauntesey, alderman of London, sold the manor of ClifFe Pypard 
 to John Goddard, Esq., of Aldborne. The conveyance is still preserved, 
 and bears the date 26th April, 1530. Among the title deeds which then 
 became the property of the Goddards was a charter granting the free 
 warren of Pypard de Clyve to Roger de Cobham. The charter still 
 remains in a very perfect state of preservation. It is written upon paper — 
 a very early example of the use of that material in deeds — and has the 
 seal of Edward I. appended, stamped in green wax. The seal has left a 
 
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 fine impression upon the wax, which is only slightly injured, a small 
 portion havin^y been lost from the lower edge. It is dated August i, 
 1304. The right of free warren thus granted extended from the hill 
 immediately above Cliffe Manor House to the wood (perhaps the eighteen 
 acres wood, of Domesday) at the end of the manor towards Wootton 
 Bassett ; and, by the possession of this charter, the Goddards claimed 
 and exercised, and still exercise, the rights mentioned in it. In all 
 probability Pypard was the name of a proprietor at ClifFe shortly after 
 Domesday ; but of whom no record appears to remain except the mention 
 in this charter and the name of the village. 
 
 The present manor-house is an improvement upon the ancient 
 mansion, which became the property of John Goddard, Esq., in 1530, 
 and which was then very old. There is no doubt that it is one of 
 the very oldest houses in Wiltshire. It appears to have been built almost 
 entirely of timber; entire oak trees, like columns, sustained the roof; and 
 the walls were also of oak timber. As the wooden walls gradually decayed 
 masonry was built up in their place. The architect who repaired the 
 house in 1842 discovered the columns of unhewn oak still standing; and 
 expressed his opinion, from the condition of the wood, which though 
 sound was of a rich, dark hue, that these huge posts with the roof-trees 
 attached must have been used quite five hundred years before. One of 
 these columns is still retained. It is probable that the ancient mansion 
 was much larger than the existing one. The dining-room contains a 
 portrait, dated 1638, of Edward Goddard, then a boy of four years old ; 
 and also of Francis Goddard, his son. The family chest contains a large 
 number of ancient deeds, dated from 15 10 to 1602, chiefly conveyances 
 
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 and leases of small properties to family connections, illustrating the 
 practice of a time when no cash payments were made to younger sons. 
 The accumulation of these deeds, and the perfect preservation of the 
 family records, is doubtless owing to the fact that the Goddards of ClifFe 
 have succeeded son to father without a break from John Goddard of 
 Upham, 1545, for three centuries, down to the present time. A singular 
 instance of direct descent, probably unrivalled in the county. 
 
 In 1 54 1, John Goddard de Upham and Cliffe Pypard received a grant 
 from Henry VIII. of the rectory of the church of ClifFe Pypard, and the 
 vicaridge, of tenements and lands in Wanborough and Upham, tenements 
 and lands in Weglestote (Westlecot) in the parish of Wroughton, 
 tenements and lands in North Tedworth, etc. This grant gave 
 Goddard the great tithes, and the right of presentation to the vicarage. 
 The right of presentation was afterwards leased out ; but the remainder of 
 the lease was repurchased, and Goddard presented in 1660. This grant 
 is a fine parchment deed with the seal of Henry VIII. in perfect 
 preservation attached ; and is endorsed, April 24th, 1541. The chancel 
 thus became the property of Goddard. At the dissolution of monasteries, 
 immediately preceding the grant to Goddard, the church of ClifFe Pypard 
 belonged to Lacock Abbey. The present structure dates from Henry 
 VII. ; the Tudor rose appears twice in the portions of stained glass which 
 still remain in the windows. The building was in the Perpendicular style, 
 the columns painted, and indications still exist of paintings upon the wall 
 over the chancel. The chancel, originally Early English of the later 
 period, was rebuilt in i860 by H. N. Goddard, Esq., in the same style; 
 and the restoration of the whole building is contemplated. Mr. Butterfield, 
 
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 the then architect, expressed his admiration of the excellent proportions of 
 the structure. 
 
 The existing building was an extension of a still older erection. This 
 opinion appears confirmed by the anomalous position of a monument to 
 the Cobham family, consisting of an arched recess, now forming portion 
 of the walls of the Goddard chapel. The arch is finely worked ; but there 
 is no inscription, and only a few fragments remaining of the figures which 
 once formed part of the monument. The present font was the design and 
 work of the Rev. Francis Goddard of Hilmerton. 
 
 Two statues, believed to be those of John Goddard and his wife, 
 formerly stood in the Goddard chapel, together with figures of their 
 children, these last now in fragments. The two larger figures have been 
 placed, facing each other, at the entrance to the chancel, in niches once 
 belonging to the rood-loft. In the memory of man the villager's children 
 used to bow to these figures as they entered the church, while they 
 remained in the Goddard chapel. These statues were sculptured out of 
 the chalk of the adjoining hill — the lower chalk. 
 
 Aubrey, who visited this church, writes : " In the chancell is a 
 monument of wood with this inscription, and the arms of Goddard impaling 
 Fettiplace. ' Here lieth the body of Elizabeth Godard, wife of John 
 
 Godard, Esq., and daughter to Sir Fettiplace, Knight, who deceased 
 
 A.D. 1550.' " 
 
 This monument, which is a wooden tablet dated 1605, still remains 
 suspended in the chancel ; and the inscription literally reads, " Heare 
 lyeth the bodye of Elizabeth Godard, wife of lohn Godard, Esqvier, and 
 daughter to Sir Robart Pheteplas, Knight, ivho desseced in the yeare of our 
 
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 Lord 1585." The words from "who" are in smaller letters. The 
 register records the burial as taking place on the 23rd October, 1584. 
 
 The left window in the chancel was given by the family of VVyatt. 
 The central window commemorates, on a brass at the foot, " The Rev. 
 Edward Goddard, vicar and patron of this parish, died Jan. 23, 1839, 
 aged ']^ years. Annica Susan, his wife, died April 5, 1855, aged 82, 
 leaving seven surviving children, 5 sons and 2 daughters." The right 
 window contains the following : — 
 
 ^nnc lcli?ab£t|), foile of |0. N. CSotitiaitJ, 1Es(i., bieti Jfeb. 21, 1849, 
 ^^^^ 34 yfnis, antr toas biirtctJ nt Torquay. iOtatficrine ^nne, \^nx 
 bnuabtcr, tiicti at ISrigbton, Nob. 19, 1851, ageti 9 years, ^usan 
 SSIertKen anti lEtilDartJ OTleitjcn liicti in infancy. 
 
 The Bupton estate, 537 acres, was originally in two or more farms, 
 one of which Thomas Goddard, Esq., of the Cliffe family, sold in 1682 to 
 Sir F. Pile. From the Piles' it passed to the dukes of Newcastle, from 
 them to the St. Johns, Lord Bolingbroke of Lyddeard Tregooze, who sold 
 it to Sir J. Simeon, whose son, Sir Richard, finally disposed of it to 
 Richard Stratton, Esq., late of Burderope. But when Thomas Goddard, 
 Esq., sold his portion of the Bupton estate he reserved the rectorial tithes, 
 which had belonged to Lacock Abbey and been purchased, at the 
 dissolution, by John Goddard de Upham. These tithes are still in the 
 possession of the Cliffe family. 
 
 Edward Goddard, Esq., whose portrait hangs in the dining-room at 
 Cliffe, was trustee of the property of Captain Edward Goddard, of 
 Ogbourne Meyscy, the sale valuation of whose estate remains. This 
 
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 specification includes the farm (now Mr. Tanner's), with a very gooil 
 house, barns, pigeon-house, the Parsonage (the most valuable portion of 
 the estate); Ruckley (Rockley) ; Puckham ; Barbara (Barbury) ; Blake 
 Woods, etc., etc. The estate appears to have been sold. 
 
 A Read, of Ramsbury (Crowood, now Major Seymour^s, whose 
 mother was a Read), married a Phillips, of Wanborough^ from whom 
 descended Johanna, daughter of H. Read, Esq., who was married in 
 1754 by Edward Goddard, of ClifFe Pypard. Through this stock the 
 Goddards, of Cliffe, are connected with the Reads, of Ramsbury, and 
 with the family of Sir Thomas Phillips, of Cheltenham, the celebrated 
 antiquary and archaeologist — many of whose ancestors are commemorated 
 by inscriptions in ClifFe Pypard Church. 
 
 In the troubled days of the Civil Wars, Goddard, of Clifte Pypard, 
 appears to have escaped danger to person and property by being under age. 
 
 The eldest son of John Godard de Upham, John, inherited the 
 estates of Cliffe Pypard and Standen-Hussey, and was twice married : 
 first, to Elizabeth, daughter of " Sir Robart Pheteplas," of Besylsley, in 
 Berkshire, and which marriage produced two sons and three daughters. 
 Alice, daughter of Thomas Goddard, Esq., of Ogbourne St. George, was 
 his second wife. They had three sons. The eldest son, Thomas God- 
 dard, married Dorothy Stephens, a connection of the same Phettyplace 
 family, and had a son, Francis Goddard. By his second wife, Margaret, 
 daughter of George Burley, Esq. (Pottern, Wilts), there were four sons 
 and three daughters. Thomas Goddard's will was dated 1609. He was 
 succeeded by Francis, who alienated Aldbourne Manor in 1636. He 
 was high-sheriff for Wilts in 1635. He married Sarah, daughter of Sir 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. I7 
 
 Anthony Hungerford, Black Bourcon, Oxfordshire; and died 15th Jan., 
 1652. 
 
 Edward, his eldest son, was born April 22nd, 1634; and, in 1656, 
 married Bridget, daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp. He died 1684, and his 
 son Francis sold the estates of Standen-Hussey, which had so long been in 
 the family, in 17 19. He was buried at Cliffe in 1724, and left one son 
 and one daughter by his wife, Mary, daughter of T. Eyres, Esq. His 
 son, Edward, was born in 1722, and married Johanna, daughter of Henry 
 Read, Esq., of Crowood, Ramsbury, on the 27th August, 1754. He 
 was high-sherifF of Wilts in 1767 ; and afterwards becoming a clergyman, 
 presented himself to the living of Cliffe Pypard, and was subsequently 
 sheriff's chaplain. He died Jan. 6th, 1791 ; and his wife 22nd Feb., 
 1802. They had three sons and four daughters, of whom the eldest, 
 the Rev. Edward Goddard, succeeded to Cliffe Pypard. He was born on 
 the loth May, 1761 ; and married Annica Susan, the only daughter of 
 Edward Baynton, Esq., consul-general at Algiers. Her mother was the 
 daughter of Sir John Werden, of Cheshire, and sister of Lucy, Duchess 
 of St. Albans. They had seven sons, and four daughters. The third 
 surviving son, Horatio Nelson Goddard, Esq., succeeded to Cliffe Pypard 
 on the death of the Rev. Edward Goddard, on the 22nd Jan., 1839. 
 
 Horatio Nelson Goddard, Esq., J. P., D.L., M.A., of Brazenose 
 College, Oxford, was born on the 8th December, 1806, and became a 
 Major in the Wiltshire Militia. He was High-Sheriff for Wilts in i860. 
 He married, on the ist April, 1840, Anne Elizabeth, daughter of the 
 Rev. Thomas Le Mesurier, B.D. (Haughton-le-Skerne), who died 21st 
 Feb., 1849; and, on the iQth Feb., 1852, Eliza Agnes, daughter of W, 
 
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 Walford, Esq., Sibford, Oxfordshire, whose daughter, Frances Agnes, is 
 the only surviving oftspring. 
 
 The arms of the ClifFe Pypard family (and also of the Swindon) 
 are : — Gules, a chevron vair, between three crescents, argent. Crest, a 
 stag's head, eftronte j gules, attired, or ; and the motto, " Cervus non 
 Servus." 
 
 THE SWINDON BRANCH. 
 
 " Sweet Alburn, loveliest village of the plain." 
 
 The "Alburn" of Ireland, which it has been contended by some 
 was meant by the poet, is said to present neither a church on a hill, nor 
 a bourne, or winter water-course — in both of which characteristics Aid- 
 bourne fully agrees with the description. There is a tradition that 
 Goldsmith was in the habit of visiting a friend at Ogbourne, and that, 
 upon one of these occasions, he walked over to see the effects of the 
 great fire of 1777, and, struck by the havoc it had caused, composed his 
 poem. 
 
 The place was once of much importance, even so early as " Domes- 
 day Book " : — 
 
 " The king holds Aldeborne. Ghida held it in the time of King 
 Edward, and it was assessed at forty hides. Here are forty-five plough- 
 lands. Eighteen of these hides are in demesne, wherein are ten plough- 
 lands, with twenty-five servants and fifteen colibcrts. Seventy-three 
 villagers and thirty-eight cottagers occupy twenty-six plough-lands. Here 
 
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 arc four mills, of the value of sixteen shillings and eightpence. The 
 meadow is a mile and a half long, and five furlongs broad, l^he pasture 
 is a mile and a half long, and three-quarters broad. The wood is three 
 miles in length, and three-quarters of a mile in breadth. Six burgesses in 
 Crichelade belong to this manor, and pay sixty-four pence. This manor 
 pays seventy pounds by weight, but it is only valued by the English at 
 sixty pounds by tale. Two hides belong to the church of this manor, 
 and consist of two plough-lands. The priest of the church holds them, 
 and they are worth forty shillings." 
 
 These entries show a territory and a population far exceeding, at that 
 time, both Swindon and Marlborough. Forty hides, at 120 acres, equals 
 nearly 5,000 acres ; in addition to which there were most extensive 
 pasture-lands, meadows, and woods. The wood, three miles long, was 
 probably that known in later times as Aldbourne Chase. There are 151 
 inhabitants recorded, which, with the usual allowance of five a man, 
 would make the total population 755 ; and it was probably much larger. 
 
 Later, the manor fell to the Dukes of Lancaster ; and Aldbourne 
 became a favourite spot of John of Gaunt, whom tradition says had a 
 hunting-lodge at Upham. It is very certain that, by means of the small 
 woods and copses upon the downs, then all open and unenclosed, the hunt 
 might have ranged from Windsor, through Aldbourne Chase, right to 
 " my forest of Braden," below Purton. John of Gaunt gave a charter 
 to Aldbourne. 
 
 The dukes of Lancaster long remained lords of the manor. In 1527, 
 William Walrond, of Aldbourne, forester of the Chase, had a quarrel 
 with William Essex, who was lessee, conccrnuig the lodge at Dudniorc. 
 
20 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 When the Earl of Essex returned from relieving Gloucester in the 
 Civil War, he passed through Cirencester, Cricklade, and probably Wan- 
 borough, tou^ards New^bury : — " From hence (Cirencester) the Earl 
 having no farther apprehension of the King's Horse, which he had no 
 mind to encounter upon the open Campagne, and being at the least 
 twenty Miles before him, by easy marches, that his sick and wearied 
 Soldiers might overtake him, moved through that deep and enclosed 
 County of North Wiltshire^ his direct way to London. As soon as the 
 King had sure notice which way the enemy was gone, he endeavour'd by 
 expedition and diligence to recover the advantage, which the supine 
 negligence of those he trusted had robbed him of; and Himself, with 
 matchless industry, taking care to lead up the Foot, Prince Rupert^ with 
 near five thousand Horse, march'd Day and Night over the Hills, to 
 get between London and the Enemy, before they should be able to get 
 out of those enclosed deep Countrys, in which they were engaged between 
 narrow Lanes, and to entertain them with Skirmishes till the whole Army 
 should come up. This design, pursued and executed with indefatigable 
 pains, succeeded to his wish ; for when the Van of the Enemies' Army 
 had almost marched over Awhorne Chace, intending that Night to have 
 reached Newbury^ Prince Rupert^ beyond their fear or expectation, 
 appear'd with a strong Body of Horse so near them, that before they 
 could put themselves in order to receive him, he Charged their Rear, 
 and Routed them with good Execution ; and though the Enemy perform'd 
 the Parts of good Men, and applied themselves more dexterously to the 
 relief of each other, than on so suddain and unlook'd-for occasion was 
 expected, yet with some diiiiculty, and the loss of many Men, they were 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 21 
 
 glad to shorten their Journey, and, the Night coming on, took up their 
 Quarters at Hungerford. 
 
 " In this Conflict, which was very sharp for an hour or two, many fell 
 of the Enemy ; and of the King's Party, none of Name, but the Marquis 
 of Fieu Ville^ a Gallant Gentleman of the French Nation, who had 
 attended the Oueen out of Holland^ and put himself as a Voluntier upon 
 this Action, into the Lord Jermyns Regiment. There were hurt many 
 Officers, and amongst those the Lord Jermyn^ received a shot in his Arm 
 with a Pistol, owing the preservation of his Life from other shots to the 
 excellent temper of his Armour ; and the L<H"d D'lghy a strange hurt in 
 the face, a Pistol being discharged at so near a distance upon him, that 
 the Powder fetchid much blood from his face, and for the present blinded 
 him, without farther mischief; by which it was concluded that the Bullet 
 had dropped out before the Pistol was discharged : And may be reckoned 
 among one of those escapes, of which that Gallant Person hath passed a 
 greater number in the course of his Life, than any Man I know." 
 
 The Parliamentarians would have been more severely handled had not 
 the advance of Prince Rupert's Cavaliers been partially stayed by an 
 accident to two of the ammunition waggons of the retreating army, which 
 they were obliged to leave in Aldbourne Street ; and which they blew up 
 to block the way and to prevent their falling into the possession of the 
 Cavaliers. The Marquis of Vieu Ville was a son of the Lord High 
 Marshal of France ; after having been captured he treacherously wounded 
 the officer who had charge of him with a pistol, when the injured man cut 
 him down with his battle-axe. The battle appears to have driven along 
 towards Crowood — as in 1815, when the road between Swindon and 
 
22 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Hungerford was being made, some sixty skeletons were dug up in one 
 spot, about two spadesful deep, at Preston. Cannon-balls have been found 
 in Aldbourne Chace, and a large quantity of coins, chiefly of the era of 
 the civil war. A lady, lately resident in the neighbourhood of Aldbourne, 
 collected a fine cabinet of coins from that spot. Not long since a 
 woodman and his boy found a sackbag full of broad silver pieces in the 
 Chace. At least two persons issued tradesmen's tokens at Aldbourne : 
 one of these coins bears the inscription,, lohn . Adee . of . Alborn . 
 design, three diamonds, and a cinquefoil between LA- On the reverse. 
 In . Wiltshire . 1656 . and three rabbits feeding, probably an allusion to 
 the famous Albourne warren. The other token reads, Richard . Clark . 
 in . date 1668 . and on the reverse, Alborn • Wiltsher ; a mullet, R. E. C. 
 and three diamonds. Aldbourne warren was noted for its rabbits ; and 
 they were sent to London by waggon-loads. Even lately Aldbourne 
 rabbits were sold as of a superior description in the London markets, at a 
 higher price, though the warren no longer exists. 
 
 Aldbourne has repeatedly suffered severely from fire. On the 24th 
 August, 1777, as a farmer at the west end of the village was sitting down 
 to dinner an alarm of fire was given at the other extremity of the place. 
 "All right," he said, "wait till after dinner, that'll be soon enough to see 
 to that." But before the meal was over a labourer rushed to the window 
 and shouted, " Measter, your ricks be a-fire.'* A strong east wind had 
 driven the flames before it, from one end of the village to the other, along 
 the thatched roofs of the houses. To this day it is possible to trace the 
 course of the fire, from the church tower, by the tiled roofs, which rose on 
 the ruins of those destroyed. The contemporary Salis'yury Journal says. 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 23 
 
 "In 1760 the town of Albourn, in Wilts, was laid in ashes by the 
 devouring flames. The ruined inhabitants felt a most compassionate 
 alleviation of their misfortunes by the great generosity of the public on that 
 mournful occasion, and by voluntary contributions of humane persons 
 partly re-instated their losses. But the blow was scarcely recovered, 
 when, on Sunday afternoon, 24th of August, 1777, the town was almost 
 entirely destroyed again by fire. The wind was high at south-west (? east). 
 The fire began at the very first house to the windward. The buildings 
 were mostly thatched with straw. No water equal to the flames : no 
 engines : no suitable assistance. In a few minutes there was a train of 
 fire in the wind a quarter of a mile in length, nor did it stop till it seized 
 the last barn and haystack at the end of the town. The rapidity of the 
 flames defeated all attempts to save anything ; houses, hovels, twenty-six 
 barns, stables, granaries, a malthouse, shops, corn, a great quantity of 
 hay, malt, fustians, looms ( ? willow), chests of tools, instruments of 
 husbandry, furniture, wearing apparel, were all indiscriminately destroyed. 
 No lives lost, the fire breaking out about noon, but many are burnt, 
 maimed, and hurt ; and harvest is just beginning. The principal 
 inhabitants immediately assembled in the parish church to consider how to 
 proceed in the present exigence ; and, it being recommended to them to 
 choose a committee to conduct their affairs for the general benefit in the 
 present distress, they have accordingly nominated a committee, consisting 
 of the minister and six of the inhabitants, to distribute impartially to the 
 relief of the sufferers such charitable contributions as shall be received.^' 
 
 The committee consisted of the Rev. J. Neale ; the churchwardens, 
 Stephen Neale and William Read ; and Messrs. J. Brown, T. Bunce, J. 
 
24 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Pike, and G. Church: Towards the loss, which was reckoned at 
 j^ 1 0,000, exclusive of about ^3,000 worth insured, the committee 
 received subscriptions from Ambrose Goddard, Esq., £20; Charles 
 Penruddocke, Esq., £20 ; Lovelace Bigg, 10 gs. ; the Rev. Ed. Brett, 
 ^^3 los. ; the Earl of Aylesbury gave ;^ioo; Henry Hoare, Esq., ;^ioo ; 
 the Duke of Marlborough, 100 gs. ; Henry Read, Esq. (Crowood), the 
 Lord Barrington, Earl Radnor, Edward Southley, Esq., etc., also gave 
 aid; as also did the corporations of London, Marlborough {£yi)y and 
 Devizes (;^59) ; Bishop and city of Salisbury sent £g2 ; Newbury, ;^8o; 
 Ogbourn St. George and St. Andrew, ^u; and Ramsbury, _^ii 
 Sir William Jones, of Ramsbury, received the thanks of the committee 
 for his personal exertions during the fire and for money. The old 
 parish books at Cliffe Pypard contain an entry of £6 5s. 8d. as collected 
 in ClifFe Church for the sufferers by the Aldbourne fire. 
 
 A third fire did great damage in May, 1817 ; and a committee 
 consisting of the Rev. Meyrick ; Messrs. Gould and Wentworth, church- 
 wardens ; and Messrs. W. Butler, J. Brown, R. Crouch, D. Neate, and 
 Wells, was formed to relieve the sufferers. 
 
 The fire of 1777 destroyed the mansion of the Walrond family. 
 After the fire numbers of the poorer inhabitants, being homeless, were 
 lodged in the church ; and it has been thought that the monument to the 
 Goddard family was then defaced, though it is much more likely to 
 have been the work of the destructive parliamentary forces in the civil 
 war. 
 
 This large monument is placed on the right of the chancel in what 
 was once the Goddard chapel. It is in the Italian style, and reaches to a 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 25 
 
 great height. There are two large figures — an esquire and his wife— and 
 four smaller, representing three sons and one daughter. It is considered 
 to be in memory of Thomas Goddard, Esq., of Upham, and his wife, 
 Anna, sister of Sir George Giflbrd. Thomas Goddard, Esq., died in 
 1597. At the top of the monument the arms of Goddard, gilt and properly 
 coloured, remain still; but lower down, where there were apparently 
 several other shields, the charge is entirely gone, as is also the inscription. 
 On a bracket over the monument hangs an esquire's helmet in very good 
 condition ; a second bracket is empty at present ; but Mr. Witte (church- 
 warden) very well remembers in his youth a breastplate and a pair of 
 gauntlets suspended there. At the late restoration of the church Mr. 
 Witte caused every search to be made for these relics, but in vain. 
 Before the restoration this part of the church, forming the Goddard 
 chapel, was railed off by an ancient wooden carved screen. 
 
 Thomas Goddaid of Upham was the second son of the John Goddard 
 of Upham, who was the common ancestor of the present branches of the 
 family. John Goddard had a grant of land from Henry VIII., in 1541, 
 in Wanborough (Wanburg) and in Upham. After the dissolution of 
 monasteries John Goddard of Upham purchased some land at Westlecote, 
 Swindon, which had belonged to the nuns of Lacock Abbey ; having been 
 given to them by Catherine Lovel. This was the nucleus of the present 
 large estates held by Goddard at Swindon. In 1539 ^^^ muster for Wilts 
 in the chapter-house at Westminster, contains entries of Willyam 
 Godearde (under-tithing of Cherell), Aldeborne ; and John Goddard, 
 gentylman, three harness (?). John of Upham died in 1545, and 
 appears to have been succeeded in the Swindon and Upham estates, or 
 
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26 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 part of them, by Thomas Goddard, who was commemorated by the 
 monument in Aldbourne Church. Thomas married twice : first, Anne, 
 sister of Sir George Gifford, Buckingham j from whom descended the 
 Goddards of Swindon : and secondly, Jane, daughter of John Ernie, of 
 Cannings, Wilts, and Ernie, Sussex ; from whom descended the Goddards 
 of Hartham. 
 
 Thomas Goddard bought the manor of Swindon in 1560. He built 
 the farm-house at Westlecote, Swindon, on a pleasant spot overlooking 
 the Elcombe valley. The date, 1589, and the initials, T. G. for Thomas 
 Goddard, still remain on a stone in the building. The walls are very 
 thick ; and the porch and nail-studded door give the structure an air of 
 antiquity. When the Spanish Armada threatened England, the gentlemen 
 of Wiltshire subscribed for the defence of the country, and Thomas God- 
 dard, Esq., gave ^^25 in 1588. On a tablet in Aldbourne Church it is 
 recorded ihat, "a.d. 1597, Thomas Goddard, Esq., of Upham, gave forty 
 shillings yearly for ever to the poor of the parish of Aldbourne. For 
 further particulars, see the parish register marked I.^^ This portion of 
 the register does not at present exist at Aldbourne ; but the remaining 
 ^register contains an informal entry mentioning that the missing parts are at 
 St. Omer, in France. This forty shillings was a rent-charge on the 
 estate at Upham, and is still paid by the present occupier, Mr. F. 
 Frampton, and deducted from the rent by the present owner (H. Stone, 
 Esq.). The money, instead of being frittered away in two distributions, 
 is now, by a better arrangement of the vicar of Aldbourne and the church- 
 wardens (Mr. Witte and Mr. Puckeridge), given at Christmas to twenty 
 old poor people. They have thus two shillings at once, instead of in two 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 27 
 
 instalments. A copy of the will of Thomas Goddard, Esq., is preserved 
 in the church chest. The will was proved on the 2nd June, 1597. He 
 desires his body to be buried in the church at Aldbourne. " I doe give 
 and bequeathe unto the poore people, now within the parish of Aldbourne 
 aforesjaid, forty shillings a-year for ever " — to be paid half-yearly, the first 
 instalment on St. Michael's day. '' Item, I doe also give and bequeath unto 
 the poor people of the parish of Swindon five pounds." There are 
 bequests also to Wanborow, Liddenton, Ramsbury, Ogbourne, and Marl- 
 borough, and to his men and maid-servants. His lands and tenements he 
 chiefly leaves to " Richard Goddard, my son.'' 
 
 Richard Goddard then became of Upham and Swindon. His 
 residence appears to have been at Upham, where he built a large mansion ; 
 probably on and with the ruins of a still older house, the hunting-lodge of 
 John of Gaunt. This mansion originally contained a noble hall extending 
 the whole length of the building, it is now subdivided into a dining-room, 
 drawing-room, pantry, and entrance-hall, each large and lofty ; the ceiling 
 is fourteen feet high. The present drawing-room occupies the place of 
 the dais, or lord's seat, and is still three steps higher than the rest. In the 
 present dining-room, over the mantelpiece, is the coat-of-arms of the royal 
 dukes of Lancaster, now much defaced ; but the oak leaves and coronet 
 remain, with the motto, " Dieu et mon droit.^' This shield was no 
 doubt originally placed in the hunting-lodge. A fine old staircase of black 
 oak leads to the upper apartments. Over the hall is the banqueting- 
 chamber, thirty feet long; the mantelpiece is a work of the time of James. 
 Standing, as the house docs, on the highest ground between London and 
 Bristol, the view from the upper story is most extensive, penetrating far 
 
28 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 into Berkshire and Hampshire. Mr. F. Frampton has a collection 
 of coins found upon the estate ; among them is a British gold 
 coin of the antepegraphic period, exhibiting the lowest form of the 
 debased stater, in a rude horse and detached wheel ; it is slightly convex 
 on one side and concave on the other, and the metal shows the grain of 
 the wooden mould. 
 
 Over the porch at some height hangs a small bell, which is curious 
 as having been cast in an Aldbourne bell- foundry ; a manufactory for 
 which Aldbourne was formerly famous. The Aldbourne chime is still 
 noted. The initials R. G. and E. G. with the date 1599 are carved on 
 the porch, for Richard Goddard and his wife Elizabeth ; also the initials 
 T. G. and A. G., for Thomas and Anne, Richard^s father and 
 mother. 
 
 Richard Goddard presented the tenor bell to. Aldbourne Church. It 
 still hangs in the tower, and has a most beautiful tone; it weighs 19 cwt. 
 28 lbs. There is the following inscription round the rim of the shoulder, 
 which when read aloud sounds like a chime — 
 
 Intonat de cells vox campane Michaelis. Deus propicius esto 
 aiabus Ricardi Godard quondam de Uppam Elizabeth et Elizabeth 
 uxorum ejus ac aiabus oim liberorum et parentum suorum qui banc 
 campana fieri fecerunt anno dni MCCCCCXVL 
 
 In restoring Aldbourne Church, a brass was found in that portion 
 which was anciently the Goddard Chapel, and under which appear to 
 have been the family vaults. The brass is now placed in the aisle 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 29 
 
 adjoining, and represents the figure of an esquire and his wife. The 
 inscription reads : — 
 
 ^it facet iHtcus (Sotitattr quotiam tic ^ppljam ct 
 
 1£l!?abci6 uxor tj» qi q^tim 
 
 iiliciis obi'it tiie ^a tini M°^^<i^<i^° ft 
 
 p'blcta i5li?abfi6 ouitt. 
 
 xi\i\o tJie gjulii ^nno tini f^illfo €(E'Q!QL'^XXM%o quor 
 
 atabus ppicittur ^^ ^nun. 
 
 A " C " appears to have been omitted when engraving this plate. It 
 was probably laid down by Richard at the time of his first wife's death, when 
 he did not contemplate a second marriage. Blank spaces were left for 
 the date of his own death, and these were never filled in. Both wives 
 were named Elizabeth. The first was a daughter of Thomas Walrond, 
 Esq., of Aldbourne, who brought him four children — the eldest of whom, 
 Thomas, succeeded to the Swindon estates, and was probably the first 
 who resided at Swindon. 
 
 The name of Goddard, however, appears at Swindon long before. In 
 "Domesday Book,'* a.d. 1082, the Bishop of Baieux (Bayeux) holds 
 Swindune, and Wadardus under him. In ancient writings, the " W '* 
 was frequently spelt " Gu." Guadardus would be a very close [Latin- 
 ized] approximation to Godard. In the reign of Henry IV., a.d. 
 1404-5, John Goddard, of Hye Swindon, and Thomas Polton, of 
 Wanborough, conveyed some lands and houses to John Palmer, of 
 Swindon. The deed runs : — " Let it be known — Whereas, we, John 
 
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30 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Goddard de Hye Swindon, and Thomas Polton de Wambergh, have given 
 to John Palmer de Hye Swindon, all the lands and houses which lately 
 we held by the gift of the said John Palmer, to be held by the aforesaid 
 John Palmer, and his heirs for ever. In testimony whereof our seals are 
 appended. Witnesses — John Bray, Walter Taylor, Thomas Smith, 
 John Coleshull, Thomas Broome, William Whyteman, John Everard, 
 and many others. Dated at Hye Swindon, in the reign of Henry IV." 
 Two seals of red wax were affixed. 
 
 Thomas Polton was commemorated by a brass in Wanborough 
 Church, to Thomas Polton, and Edith, his wife: 1418. Palmer is a 
 name still existing at Swindon. 
 
 Thomas Goddard, who succeeded Richard of Upham at Swindon, 
 lived in the time of the Civil War ; but does not appear to have taken 
 any part in it. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Edmond Phetyplace, 
 of Childrey, Berks. Aubrey saw his tomb in Holyrood Church, at 
 Swindon. " In the same aisle (Goddard's), beneath his picture, was 
 buried, aged 25, 1641, Thomas Goddard, Esq., husband of Jane, daughter 
 to Edmund Fettiplace, Knight. (Coate of arms.) Somebody is buried 
 by, I suppose, his wife, but the Inscription not legible." 
 
 Richard Goddard succeeded his father at Swindon. Richard Goddard 
 was a Commissioner for King Charles in Wiltshire in 1643, ^^^ ^^^ ^^ 
 his coadjutors was William Fisher, of Liddington. Fisher was also a 
 treasurer for his party. Richard Goddard was subsequently (in 1648) 
 fined j^20 by the Parliamentarian Committee, and would probably have 
 been far more severely taxed, had not some of his relations been influ- 
 ential men with the other party. His estate was valued at ;r6oo per 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 3I 
 
 annum. Fisher escaped, though a charge was preferred against him by- 
 Edward Goddard. His estate was valued at ;^200 per annum. 
 
 Edward Goddard was one of the Parliamentarian Committee in Wilt- 
 shire, and afterwards one of Cromwell's assessors. 
 
 Vincent Goddard was an officer in the king's army, and is supposed 
 to have been a son of John Goddard, of Upham and ClifFe Pypard, and 
 Alice, his second wife, daughter of Thomas Goddard, of Ogbourne St. 
 George. He is said to have commanded a troop of horse, and marched 
 under Lord Digby to attack Marlborough, then garrisoned by the Parlia- 
 ment. Vincent Goddard was sent forward to summons the town to 
 surrender ; but the negociation was drawn out till the defence was com- 
 pleted, and they then treacherously fired upon him. Finding the town 
 more strongly garrisoned than he expected. Lord Digby retreated in the 
 evening to Aldbourne, where his quarters were beat up in the night by a 
 sortie from the garrison of Marlborough, who carried off Vincent Goddard 
 prisoner. A Vincent Goddard was a Commissioner for Cromwell in 
 Berkshire in 1655. 
 
 A report of the Wiltshire Committee for the Parliament, relating to 
 the goods of Sir James Long, with whom they had compounded, was 
 signed by Goddard, 17th Nov., 1645. -^ certificate of the composition 
 was sent to London, signed, among others, by John Goddard, J4th 
 Nov., 1646. 
 
 In January, 1646, a thousand horse, headed by Sir James Long and 
 Sir John Causfield, made a rush from Oxford into Wiltshire, and took 
 Goddard, one of the Parliament's Commissioners, prisoner at Marl- 
 borough. 
 
32 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Thomas Goddard and John Goddard, Parliamentary Commissioners 
 in Wiltshire, signed a certificate, in 1646, that Charles, son of Lord 
 Francis Seymour, had not acted against the Parliament. 
 
 Mr. James Goddard was a treasurer (also his son) for the Wiltshire 
 Parliamentary Committee previous to 1648. 
 
 Dr. Jonathan Goddard, physician, became Warden of Merton College 
 through the Rebellion, but was ejected at the Restoration. He was one 
 of the first promoters of the Royal Society. 
 
 There is a curious printed document still preserved at the Lawn, 
 which appears to date from the time of Cromwell, and to refer to one of 
 the numerous secret political societies formed at that period. It is a 
 small oblong circular, six inches by four inches, engraved by Gutterlanc, 
 with a border of twelve coats-of-arms of various branches of the Goddard 
 family in Wilts, Leicester, Cheshire, Lincoln, Kent, etc., etc. The 
 printed matter reads : — 
 
 " There is a friendly Meeting of those whose Names be Goddard. 
 
 " S^; your Company is loueingly desyered only for Societie and 
 Acquaintance. The times of meeting are the 5th day of every month in 
 ye yeare except it be Sunday, then on ye day following ; from Ladey Day 
 to Michaelmas at 6 ; from Michaelmas to Ladey Day at 4 o'clock in the 
 aftcrnoone. — At the Red Bull, behind St. Nicholas Shambles, called 
 Mount Goddard Streets.** 
 
 This paper appears to have been printed before the Fire of London 
 in 1666, because the places mentioned in it were then destroyed. 
 
 Richard Goddard mairicd Anne Bowcrman in 1648, and was sue- 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. ;J3 
 
 ceeded by his son Thomas at Swindon. Thomas Goddard, Esq., paid 
 £i for "The Park" under a tax made for the poor in 1687; and, 
 in an assessment made 1692, ^80 igs. for all his estates. He married 
 Mary, daughter of Oliver Pleydell, of Shrivenham ; and his eldest son, 
 Richard, who inherited Swindon, sat in Parliament for the borough of 
 Wootton Bassett (now deprived of a member) in 1710. He sat for the 
 shire in 1722. Having no children, his brother, Pleydell Goddard, 
 inherited Swindon ; but he, too, died childless in 1742. 
 
 The estate then fell to Ambrose Goddard, Esq., grandson of Richard 
 of Upham. Richard of Upham's second son was Edward, who resided 
 at Inglesham. He married Priscilla, daughter of John D'Oyley, and 
 Ursula, his wife, who was the daughter of Sir Edward Cope. Among 
 their sons was Thomas, who resided at Box ; whose son, Thomas, lived 
 at Rudloe, and married Mary, daughter of Ambrose Awdry, Esq., of 
 Melksham ; and their son, Ambrose Goddard, now succeeded to the 
 Swindon estates. He was born in 1695, 6th November; and married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Ambrose Awdry, Esq., of Seend, on the i6th 
 August, 1716. The third son, Ambrose Goddard, became of Swindon. 
 
 At this date, 1772, it appears that the county wished to throw off the 
 yoke of the Court party, which consisted of great families ; and Ambrose 
 Goddard, Esq , was chosen as the champion of constitutional inde- 
 pendence. The Goddard family had branched out very widely in North 
 Wilts, and there were landed representatives of the name in at least 
 thirteen or fourteen parishes, namely : — Cliffe Pypard, Swindon, Upham, 
 Standen-Hussey, Stratton St. Margaret, Inglesham, South Marston, Castle 
 Eaton, Purton, Berwick Bassett, Clatford, Rudloe, Hartham> Ogbourne, 
 
34 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS, 
 
 etc. It was hoped to throw the weight of this extended influence into 
 the scale against that of the Herberts, of South Wilts. Ambrose God- 
 dard, Esq., formally offered himself as a candidate at the county meeting, 
 on the 7th August, 1772; when he was supported by Lord Folkestone, 
 and Grove, of Zeals. The clergy worked on his side ; and the result of 
 four days' polling at Wilton placed Ambrose Goddard, Esq., at the head 
 of a majority of 815 votes — i.e.^ 1870 to 1055. Some Devizes poet 
 wrote the following lines on the occasion : — 
 
 "ON MR. GODDARD'S ELECTION FOR WILTS. 
 
 ** Hail, happy Shire ! who late so bravely stood 
 To choose the wise, the vhtuous, and the good, 
 Unbribed and free, she gave her generous voice j 
 While neighbouring counties all applaud her chc«ce. 
 A choice like this doth all around proclaim 
 Her care for trade, for liberty, for fame. 
 In vain for her the shining bait was laid ; 
 The treacherous purpose was too clear displayed. 
 Gold lost its charms, and free-born Wiltshire blood 
 Spurned at a bribe, and uncorrupted stood. 
 
 ^^ Devizes, z^th August^ 1772." 
 
 After the dissolution of Parliament, Mr. Goddard was formally com- 
 plimented upon his conduct in that assembly ; and was informed that his 
 re-election (which took place in 1774) should be free of expense. In 
 1780, a committee was formed in Wiltshire to draw up a petition to 
 Parliament, showing the heavy cost of the American War, and the 
 extravagant expenditure of the public money ; and requesting that no 
 more taxes should be imposed until inquiry had been made into abuses 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 35 
 
 in the Home Government. Among the committee-men were A. God- 
 dard, Esq., Swindon ; T. Calley, Esq. ; Will. Harding, Esq., Swindon ; 
 and Thomas Vilett, Esq., of Swindon ; and Thomas Goddard Vilett, of 
 Swindon. At a county meeting at Devizes, on the 28th March, 1780, 
 a vote of thanks was proposed to Ambrose Goddard, Esq., for his 
 independent conduct in Parliament. In 1780, he voted against the 
 continuance of the war with America. A. Goddard, Esq., was one of 
 the requisitionists who convened a meeting at Devizes, on the 30th May, 
 1800, to congratulate the king on his escape from assassination. He was 
 re-elected in 1802, and finally retired in 1806. He was at Lisbon during 
 the great earthquake of 1755, and escaped alone of all in the house with 
 him. His eldest son, Thomas Goddard, was elected for Cricklade in 
 1806, but died in 18 14. The third son, Richard, in 18 13, seconded a 
 resolution at a county meeting proposing to leave the Catholic claims to 
 the wisdom of Parliament. 
 
 Ambrose Goddard married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Williams, 
 Esq., of Pilrowth, Carmarthenshire, on the i6th August, 1786. He 
 died in 1815. A tablet erected to their memory in Holyrood Church, 
 Swindon, bears the following inscription : — 
 
 " A.D., 1838. Near this place lie the remains of Ambrose Goddard, 
 Esq., and of Sarah Maria, his wife. They lived nearly forty years 
 in the adjacent mansion, happy in the love of each other, and in pro- 
 moting the happiness of all around them, though severely tried by the 
 loss of many of a numerous family. He represented the County of Wilts 
 in Parliament 35 years, honestly and faithfully, seeking no reward but 
 
36 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 the testimony of his own conscience, and the esteem of his constituents. 
 His wife was highly gifted, and a bright example of Christian grace. 
 They both endeavoured to serve God by doing good to man. Through 
 the merits of Christ may their services be accepted, and their happiness 
 protracted to a blessed eternity. 
 
 "A. Goddard died June, 1815; S. M. Goddard, April, 1818. 
 This tablet was erected by their few surviving children, as a memorial of 
 their gratitude and affection." 
 
 The second son, Ambrose Goddard, succeeded to Swindon. He was 
 elected M.P. for Cricklade, and was High-SherifF of Wilts in 1819-20. 
 He was a Captain in the lOth Hussars. He married, on the ist August, 
 18 18, Jessie Dorothea, daughter of Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge ; and 
 their eldest son, Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard, Esq., of the Lawn, 
 Swindon, is the present head of the family. He was born on the 9th 
 December, 18 19, and was several times elected for Cricklade. He is a 
 Major in the Royal Wilts Regiment of Yeomanry. He married, on the 
 14th August, 1847, Charlotte, eldest daughter of Edward Ayshford 
 Sanford, Esq., Nynehead Court, Somerset. There are four sons and one 
 daughter: — Ambrose Ayshford, born 7th May, 1848 ; Fitz-Roy Pleydell, 
 born 29th August, 1852 ; Edward Hesketh, born 19th October, 1855 ; 
 Charles Frederick, born 25th November, 1865 j and Jessie Henrietta. 
 
 The eldest son, Ambrose Ayshford Goddard, Esq., came of age on 
 the 7th May, 1869, an event which was celebrated by a dinner at the 
 Lawn. The auspicious morning was welcomed by the discharge of guns 
 and the merry chime of the church bells. The streets were hung with 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 3/ 
 
 flags, and at two o'clock an address was presented by the tenantry of the 
 estate and the principal tradesmen of the town. Mr. A. A. Goddard and 
 party stood on the steps of the porch when the address was read by Mr. 
 A. Barnes. 
 
 " To Ambrose Ayshford Goddard, Esq., of the Lawn, Swindon, 
 Wilts. 
 
 "We, the undersigned, being tenantry of your much -respected father, 
 and inhabitants of the parish of Swindon, beg to offer to you our warm 
 and very sincere congratulations on the auspicious ind memorable occasion 
 of your attaining your majority. 
 
 " Bearing in mind that you are the heir of a Wiltshire family dating 
 back for many generations, we desire to convey to you our heartfelt 
 wishes that you may be spared in health and happiness, to some, as we 
 hope, far distant day, to inherit the estates in this locality which have 
 been for many centuries identified with the honourable name you bear ; 
 and when that period shall have arrived, we rest assured you will deserve 
 and command the same esteem and respect which have ever been accorded 
 to your worthy father and his predecessors. Dated yth May, 1869." 
 
 An ornamental sword was at the same time presented. 
 
 Mr, A. A. Goddard, to whom the sword was a very appropriate gift, 
 he being an ensign in the Grenadier Guards, replied in these words : — 
 
 " I feel very much honoured by the very kind address that you 
 have just presented to me, and also for the hearty way in which you have 
 alluded to my family. As yet I have done nothing to merit such 
 
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38 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 kindness ; but I hope when I am called upon to fill the position that my 
 father fills — and I trust that day is very far distant — that I shall obtain 
 the same esteem and regard from you that he so deservedly enjoys. I am 
 sure I cannot follow a better example than he has set me. I shall value 
 this sword very much as coming from the friends amongst whom I have 
 lived all my life ; and I trust that if ever I have occasion to use it, 
 I shall make as good use of it as my grandfather did of his in the 
 Peninsula." 
 
 The dinner to which the tenantry and principal tradesmen were 
 invited took place, later in the afternoon, in a marquee erected upon the 
 lawn, and most gracefully decorated, under the superintendence of Mrs. 
 Goddardj with festoons of bluebells and cowslips, the flowers of the 
 season, intermingled with lilac and green branches of fir. Many toasts 
 were cordially drunk, especially that of the heir, who responded in terms 
 similar to the above. 
 
 Colonel Verschoyle was named for the army, not only as having been 
 through the Crimean war, but as having carried the Guards* colours at 
 Inkerman. 
 
 Mr. Arthur Verschoyle, a young gentleman of ten or twelve, who was 
 dressed in naval costume, was mounted upon the table as a post of 
 vantage, when he said no one had returned thanks for the navy, and as 
 he was a sailor, he did not like to let it pass. He therefore begged to 
 return thanks for the navy. Mr. Arthur's coolness and self-possession 
 convulsed his audience with laughter. 
 
 Mr. R. Strange gave the health of Mr. A. L. Goddard in the threefold 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 39 
 
 capacity of country gentleman, member of parliament, and in connection 
 with the town of Swindon, as having aided its development. 
 
 Mr. Sandford, in replying to the toast of his health, advised Mr. A, A. 
 Goddard, to look forward to being received in after life as he had seen his 
 father received that day. 
 
 The health of Mrs. Goddard and the ladies was proposed by Mr. J. 
 Chandler, and warmly received. Mr. J. E. G. Bradford replied. 
 
 The chairman, Mr. A. L. Goddard, gave the tenantry and tradesmen, 
 coupling with the toast the names of Mr. A. Barnes and Mr. Toomer. 
 
 In the evening the ladies took tea with the guests in the marquee. The 
 weather was beautiful, and every omen propitious. 
 
 Since the above was written, A. L. Goddard, Esq., of the Lawn, 
 Swindon, has become possessed by purchase of the ancient family 
 estate at Upper Upham, which has been so frequently referred to as the 
 original home from which the name spread itself over Wiltshire. 
 
 Ensign A. A. Goddard has received a commission, and is now Captain 
 in the Grenadier Guards. 
 
 MINOR BRANCHES. 
 
 Ogbourne St. George. 
 
 In the Chantry Chapel of the Holy Trinity, added at the east end 
 of the church, there was a brass to the memory of Thomas Goddard 
 
40 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 and Joanna his wife,* which now lies near the pulpit in a very good state 
 of preservation. The inscription is — 
 
 ®ff ^0 tjarite prap for i6e soiilcs of ^Jomas CHotibartf antj ^jojan Sis 
 tuife, fofiitj tfiomstrpetr tjc aea^FM-Uajiof August ^d. ililt.tiabii. o fofto' 
 soul^ 3I6u Jabe mcf. 
 
 "Of your charity pray for the souls of Thomas Goddard and Joan his 
 wife ; which Thomas died the 27th day of August, Anno 1517 ; on whose 
 soul Jesu have mercy/' 
 
 The fly-leaf of the register book, No. i, contains the following 
 entries : — 
 
 '* Ralf Goddard was born on ye twentieth day of July, in ye year of 
 our Lord, 1639. 
 
 "John Welden Champneys, A.B., was inducted into the vicarage of 
 this parish the loth of August, 1794. 18 young ashen trees put against 
 Moore Goddard's garden, allowing more than one foot for droppings ; the 
 aforesaid Moore having dug close to some hurdles put as a fence in 1796. 
 March 1800, Quick-set hedge planted ag* Wadman's Lane. Ash frith 
 planted in the same year in the long patch near Goddard's garden. A 
 quick hedge planted ag^ Chantrey Ground, April, 1803, 2 rows by the 
 vicar's own hand. In the same year, 1796, nine young ash trees were 
 planted from the stable to the street, as boundaries; in 1797,28 young 
 trees were planted about the bank and north side of the garden, and three 
 against Chantrey." 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 41 
 
 Ogbourne St. Andrew. 
 
 In the church there are two monuments to the Goddard family. The 
 first, near the chancel, bears this inscription — 
 
 "This is ye monvment of William Goddard, of Ogbourne St. 
 Andrew, Gent., and Elizabeth his wife^ and their children, who were 
 Willia., John, Vincent, Thomas, and Alice. These are all here intered, 
 and died in ye same order they were borne, leaving no issve behind them 
 bvt Elizabeth and Lvcie davghters to John. 
 
 " This monvment was erected by Thomas ye yovnger sonne before 
 his death, 1655." 
 
 The crest over the coat-of-arms is a stag's head j and the motto, 
 " Cervus non servus." 
 
 The second memorial reads — 
 
 " Here lieth Anne, ye wife of John Seymour, jun"^- of this parish, 
 daughter of John Goddard of London, Gent., who (leaving issue Thomas, 
 John, William, Anne, Philip, Roger, Robert, Edward) died ye 3rd of 
 Apr. A°D"^- 1687, aged 37. 
 
 Hartham. 
 
 Goddard was of this place from 1640. They owned the present 
 Hartham Park and Rudloe, and their house stood on the site of the 
 present mansion. 
 
 D 2 
 
42 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Thomas Goddard, of Hartham, lieutenant-general in the Indian army, 
 was celebrated for an adventurous march with his troops. 
 
 "It was in the beginning of the year 1778 that, in order to extricate 
 the presidency of Bombay, Mr. Hastings planned the adventurous march 
 from the banks of the Jumna to Surat, across the whole peninsula of 
 India. Goddard executed this bold, wise, and hazardous enterprise with 
 scarcely seven thousand native troops, traversing hostile and almost unex- 
 plored portions of that continent for the space of above eight hundred 
 miles." — ("WrascalFs Memoirs.^') 
 
 The general died on the 7th July, 1783, and was buried at Eltham 
 in Kent. This march almost rivalled that of the J 0,000 under 
 Xenophon. He was the grandson of Thomas Goddard, M.A., canon of 
 Windsor. 
 
 South Marston. 
 
 The manor of South Marston formerly belonged to the Goddard 
 family, and their names occur in the register from 1599 ^^ 1689. Their 
 signatures also appear on parish documents. A stone on the pavement at 
 the entrance to the chancel bears the following inscription much 
 defaced — 
 
 " Here lyeth the body of Anne Goddard, the davghter of Mr. Thomas 
 Goddard, who dyed at the age of fowcr years, and was buried the XV. 
 day of Avgvst, 1636.'' 
 
the goddards of north wilts. 43 
 
 Down Ampney. 
 There was an inscription in the church to the memory of Sir Anthony 
 Hungerford, Knight, whose second wife was Anne, daughter of Edward 
 Goddard, Esq. 
 
 Berwick Basset. 
 Thomas Goddard had property here in 1559. 
 
 Salisbury. 
 
 In 1596, the Earl of Essex, returning from the expedition to Cadiz, 
 passed through Salisbury, and the city archives record — 
 
 " October 15th, Edmund Goddard, captain of the trained bands of this 
 city, is allowed the sum of 40s. for gunpowder which was spent when the 
 Earl of Essex was received into this city. 
 
 "In 1687, Thomas Goddard, assistant alderman of Salisbury, with 
 other members of the corporation, among them Andrew Baden, alderman 
 (one of the same family as Baden, Chiseldon, and Cricklade), were removed 
 from their places on Dec. 17th by express command of James II., who 
 was planning the overthrow of the Protestant religion, and were replaced 
 by persons disposed to abet that scheme. 
 
 " 1694, March 30th. The chamberlain of the city is ordered to pay 
 ^5 to Mr. Thomas Goddard towards buying a piece of plate for the 
 encouragement of gentlemen to run heats that year on Salisbury Plain, 
 
44 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 to be added to the money Mr. Goddard had already collected for that 
 purpose. 
 
 " 1 7 14. Mr. Thomas Goddard was elected mayor of Salisbury by 28 
 votes to 18 ; but, pleading circumstances, he was excused from serving on 
 payment of a fine of five guineas.^' 
 
 The Goddards of Salisbury were a distant connection of the ClifFe 
 Pypard family. 
 
 In 1648, Mr. Goddard of Salisbury had an estate at All Cannings 
 valued at ^80 per annum. 
 
 MISCELLANIES. 
 London. 
 
 '' The writings and tallies of Simon Goddard were delivered by 
 indenture to John Sonde, executor of his will, Jan. 25th, 1308.'' This 
 is mentioned, in "Memorials of London Life in the 13th, 14th, and 15th 
 Centuries,'* as one of the few instances in which Saxon Christian names 
 occur among the population of London and similar large cities, even within 
 three centuries of the Norman Conquest. This fact is attributed to the 
 probability of the Saxon population remaining in the country as villeins 
 under the Norman lords — the villein being, by the nature of his services, 
 attached to the soil. 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 45 
 
 Tallies were notched sticks, indicating numbers or £ s. d. by different 
 notches. Curiously enough the Wiltshire shepherds to this day employ a 
 rude species of tally to count their sheep. While letting them out of the 
 fold the shepherd stands by with his knife, and counting them as they 
 pass, cuts a notch for every twenty sheep on the top of the hurdle, and 
 afterwards adds up the notches which tell him how many " score " there 
 are. The shepherds always reckon by scores. 
 
 " Mrs. Elizabeth Goddard, of London, was buried the 6th day of 
 December, 1682, and being buried in linnen contrary to ye Act of 
 Parliament, there was fifty shillings fine (?) to go to ye poore of ye 
 parish, w*^*^ was accordingly paid by F Snellinge.'^ 
 
 Goddard Castle. 
 
 Goddard Castle. — " This, Kilburn saith (as also doth the Bering 
 Manuscript), was founded by one Sir Leonard Goddard in King Stephen's 
 reign ; but Philpot seems rather to think it was built by the Romans — at 
 least, that it is as old as the Saxon times ; and took its name, as Darell 
 conjectures, from one Godardus, a Saxon. As to his own opinion, that it 
 was one of the Roman Speculatory, or Watch Towers, I think it carries 
 a good face of probability — for it stands on the brow of a high hill, not 
 far from Binbury, and overlooks all the country below it; and I have 
 been informed that Roman arms and other remains have been found on 
 the hill on which it stands, which the people call ' Goddard Hill.' " — 
 " History of Kent." By John Harris, D.D., F.R.S. 17 19. 
 
46 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Friar Goddard. — "John Goddard, wherever born, had his best 
 being at Cogshall, in this county, where he became a Cistercian monk. 
 Great was his skill in arithmetic and mathematics — a science which had 
 long been asleep in the world, and now first began to open its eyes again. 
 He wrote many certain treatises thereof, and dedicated them unto Ralph, 
 Abbot of Cogshall. He flourished Anno Domini 1250." — Fuller's 
 *' Worthies of Essex.'* 
 
 Napoleon HI., dying at Chiselhurst, received the last offices of religion 
 from a Father Goddard. 
 
 In the temporary Museum formed in the Town Hall at Swindon, 
 on the occasion of the visit of the Wilts Archaeological Society, in i860, 
 a miniature on copper was exhibited bearing the arms of Goddard j and 
 also a brass circular seal, having on a bend three cups, and the legend, 
 " S. Henrice Goddard." This last was found at Taunton; and, with 
 respect to the device of the three cups, see page 6. 
 
 Prizes of Goddard and Norwood, a.d. 1585. In "Lansdowne 
 MSS.," No. 143 — 117; folio 457. 
 
 Letter of J. Goddard to Henry Cromwell, Chief Governor of Ireland, 
 a.d. 1655—58. In "Lansdowne MSS.," 821-22-23. 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 47 
 
 PEDIGREES. 
 Inglesham. 
 
 Richard Goddard of Upham= Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Walrond. 
 I. Thomas, died 1641= Jane, daughter of Sir Ed. Fetiplace. 
 
 Richard = Anne Bo werman, burled at South Marston, 1685. 
 
 II. Edward, of Inglesham = PrIscilla, daughter of John D'Oyley by Ursula, 
 I daughter of Sir Ed. Cope. 
 
 John = daughter of Thomas Bennet, of Norton Bevast, 
 I Wilts. 
 
 James.* 
 
 Francis, born 16 16. 
 
 Thomas of Box, born l6io ; d. 1691, aet. 71, 
 
 Edward, born 1622. 
 
 Richard, bapt. 1 625. 
 
 William, 7th son, bapt, Feb. 28, 1627, 
 
 Joslah. 
 
 Benjamin. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Priscilla. 
 
 Martha. 
 
 James,* of South Marston, born 1615 ; died l678,=ElInor, of London, 
 aet. 63. Buried at South Marston. | 
 
 Thomas* 
 
 James, of Jamaica. Secretary to Sir Thomas Lynch, 
 Governor of Jamaica. Bapt. at South Marston, 1658 j 
 died 1691, aet. 33. Will proved, 1691, 
 
 Ann, born 1660. 
 
 Ellen, born i66i, 
 
 Mary, born 1664. 
 
 Judith, born 1660 (?). 
 
 Elizabeth, born 1669. 
 
 Martha, born 1673. All at South Marston. 
 
48 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Thomas, bapt. at South Marston, 1657;= * * * 
 died before 1691 ; was living 1681, as per will | 
 of Sir Thos. Lynch. | 
 
 James, M.D., of Jamaica; will proved at Jamaica, = Jane, daughter of John Gregory, President of 
 1749. ! Jamaica (?). 
 
 Mary Whiteham, only daughter and heiress= 1762, Edward Morant, Esq , (his second wife) 
 
 I M.P. for Hendon, 1761. Died 1 791. 
 
 Edward Morant Gale, of Upham, Hants=: Emily daughter of S. Gambler, Esq. 
 
 Edward Morant Gale.* 
 
 Emily Gale = William James Long, Esq,, eldest son of Walter 
 Long, Pesham, Hants. 
 
 Edward Morant Gale,* living i868 = daughter of Sir Simon Stewart, Bt. 
 
 American Branch. 
 
 William Goddard, 7th son of Edward and Priscllla.= Elizabeth, daughter of William Miles, of London. 
 
 He was a sufferer in the great fire of London, 
 
 of which he was a citizen, and emigrated to 
 
 America, settling at Boston in 1 666. | 
 
 Joseph Goddard, 2nd son, born 1655, died 1728,= * * * 
 
 Boston. I 
 
 John Goddard, born 1669, died 1785. Boston = * * » 
 
 John Goddard ofBoston, U.S.A., b. 1730, d. 1816.= # * * 
 
 I 
 Joseph Goddard* 
 
 Benjamin Goddard, died October 26th, 1861, aet. 96. 
 
 Joseph Goddard,* 3rd son; born 1761, died Dec.=Mary, daughter of Samuel Aspenwall, of Brook- 
 
 loth, 1845, aet. 84, at Boston. | lyn, U.S. 
 
 Samuel Aspenwall Goddard, author of " Letters = Jemima Badope (?). 
 
 on the American War." Living 1872. | 
 
 Julia Goddard, authoress, 1872. 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 49 
 
 PURTON. 
 
 Francis Goddard, Esq., second son of Francis Goddard, of Standen- 
 Hussey and ClifFe-Pypard, succeeded his father in an estate called 
 Cowich, near Calne, in 1653, which had been alienated from the Church 
 in the time of King Henry VIII. He is stated, in old papers, to have 
 had in his possession " a license of alienation, from Sir John Williams to 
 John Goddard, of the said estate, dated iiii° year of Edward VI. ;" 
 " and a fine and deed of the xxxi° of Queen Elizabeth, that declares the 
 uses thereof to Thomas Goddard," son of John Goddard, of Standen- 
 Hussey, and grandfather of Francis. That part of the estate called 
 Attrels, situate in Hilmarton and Calne, was purchased afterwards in 
 xxi° James I. He resided on his estate at Purton, having married, in 
 1667, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Thorner, Esq., by whom he had 
 issue : — 
 
 1. Edward, d. s. p. ^ 
 
 2. Anthony, who succeeded him. 
 
 1. Sarah, m. Charles Spenser, Esq. 
 
 2. Emma, d. unm. 
 The second son, 
 
 Anthony Goddard, on the death of his brother, succeeded to the 
 estates of his father, of which he sold that of Cowich to Mr. Northey in 
 1720. He m. Mary, daughter of Arthur Evans, Esq., and had issue : — 
 I. Richard, who succeeded him. 
 
 I. Mary, m. Charles Dewell, of Malmesbury, by whom (who d. in 
 Jamaica) she had a son : — 
 
 E 
 
50 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 Timothy Dewell, who m. Elizabeth Jenkyns, and had issue : 
 
 1. Charles Dewell. 
 
 2. Henry Dewell. 
 
 3. Arthur Dewell. 
 
 4. Thomas Dewell, who m., first, Charlotte, daughter 
 
 of Thomas Gaisford, Esq.,* of Iford, in the 
 County of Wilts, who died without issue. He 
 m., secondly, i6th November, 1830, Henrietta 
 Susanna, daughter of Colonel Tugnell, of Sidney 
 Place, Bath. He resided at Dauntsey House, in 
 the County of Wilts. 
 The only son, 
 
 Richard Goddard, M.D., succeeded his father in his estates at Purton, 
 m., ist August, 1753, Sarahj daughter of the Right Hon. Sir John Willes, 
 Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and by her had issue an only 
 daughter and heiress : — 
 
 Margaret Goddard, m., in 1792, to Robert Wilsonn, Esq., R.N., 
 and had issue four daughters : — 
 
 1. Sarah Margaret Wilsonn, m., 14th October, 1824, 
 
 Richard Miles, Esq., of Purton House, which he 
 purchased from her mother, Mrs. Wilsonn ; d. s. p. 
 
 2. Isabella Wilsonn ; deceased unmarried. 
 
 3. Anne Bond Wilsonn j deceased unmarried. 
 
 4. Emma Wilsonn, m. — Jackson, Esq., of Bath ; d. s. p. 
 
 * Father of Dr. Gaisford, late Dean of Ch. Ch., Oxford. 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 5I 
 
 Arms — As Goddard, of ClifFe, Swindon, etc. 
 
 By the death of Miss Isabella Wilsonn, the Purton branch of the 
 Goddard family is now extinct. 
 
 Walrond. 
 
 Waleran Venator (Waleran the Huntsman) occupies a chapter in 
 "Domesday Book/' as holding lands at Coteford (Codford) ; Anestige 
 (Ansty) ; Butremare (Buttermere) ; Stanniges ; Chenete (Kennet) ; Stan- 
 lege-; Langeford (Langford) ; Bereford (Barford) ; Witford ; Gremestede ; 
 Watedene ; Alwarberie (Alderbury) ; Duene (Dean) ; and Herdicote. 
 
 Waleran, by easy transitions, becomes Walran, Walron, and, finally, 
 Walrond. 
 
 Adam Walrond was a burgess of Marlborough in 1333. A Walrond 
 was struck down and killed by a buck before James I. at Tottenham, 
 Savernake Forest. In 1554 there was a suit, Thomas Walrond v. John 
 Goddard, respecting land, and rights of brushwood, etc., in Aldbourne 
 Chace. This family does not appear to be connected with the Walronds 
 of Devonshire. 
 
 In Aldbourne Church there is a large monument, on the left of the 
 chancel, to Walrond. The inscriptions, in mingled English, Latin, and 
 Greek, have been translated by the Rev. the Vicar of Aldbourne, who 
 has also carefully restored the monument at his own expense. 
 
 I. " Here in peace awaits the second coming of Christ, Edward 
 Walronde, Esq., descended from the ancient family of Walronde : one 
 who was a lover of hospitality, and an entertainer of many friends ; 
 
52 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 whom God called to His heavenly country in the Year of Grace 1617, 
 aged 96." 
 
 II. "William Walronde, gentleman, brother to Edward : having com- 
 pleted an upright life of 84 years, entered upon the way of flesh, 16 14. 
 But his body, reduced to ashes under this monument, still awaits, through 
 Jesus Christ, the second assumption of a purified body in Heaven." 
 
 Heralds' Visitation, Wilts, 1623. 
 Walrond.— Arms, 3 bars, or ; an imperial eagle, displayed, G. 
 
 William Walrond of Aldbourne«» Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Kibblcwhite, of 
 
 Faley, Berks. All issue are Founder's kin 
 at St. John's College, Oxon, 
 Mary = Christopher Bunwell, of Aldbourne. 
 Thomas = Joan, daughter of Munday, Chilton, Wilts. 
 
 1. Thomas, 
 a. Edward. 
 
 3. William. 
 
 4. George. 
 
 5. Elizabeth. 
 
 I. Thomas of Aldbourne = Alice, daughter of George Pratter, Latton, Wilts. 
 
 I 
 George 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Jane. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 II. Edward, of Ramsbury=» Agnes, daughter of Kite, of Hagburne, Berks } 
 I widow of Kent, of Southcote, Berks. 
 
 No issue in 1565. 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 53 
 
 III William = * * * 
 
 Ann = William Pearse, of Stitchcombe, Wilts. 
 Thomas= Ann, daughter of Thomas Walrond. 
 
 Edward. 
 Robert. 
 Thomas. 
 Ann. 
 
 Mary. 
 
 Edward = Ann, daughter of Thomas Goddard, of Standen. 
 
 I 
 Thomas. 
 
 Edward. 
 
 Catherine. 
 
 The late Rev. Richard Goddard, of Swindon, Vicar of Kemble and 
 Draycott Foliatt, was a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxon, through this 
 claim as Founder's Kin : also the Rev. John H. Vilett, of Swindon. 
 
 There were other intermarriages between Walrond and Goddard : — 
 Richard Goddard, of Upham, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
 Walrond, of Aldbourne. Anne, daughter of Francis Goddard, of 
 Standen- Hussey, married Thomas Walrond, of Aldbourne. 
 
54 THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 
 
 APPARITION OF EDWARD AVON, FATHER-IN-LAW 
 OF THOMAS GODDARD, MARLBOROUGH. 
 
 "The Narrative of Thomas Goddard, of Marlborough, in the County of Wilts, weaver, made on 
 the 23rd November, 1674, and deposed in the presence of Christopher Lypiatt, mayor; Ralph 
 Bayly, town-clerk ; and Joshua Sacheverell, rector of St. Peter's. Who saith : That on Monday, 
 the ninth of this instant, as he was going to Ogbourne, at a stile on the highway near Mr. Goddard's 
 ground, by nine in the morning, he met the apparition of his father-in-law, one Edward Avon, of 
 this town, glover, who died in May last, having on to all appearance the same clothes, hat, stockings, 
 and shoes he did usually wear when he was living, standing by and leaning over that stile. As 
 Goddard came near, the apparition spoke to him in an audible voice these words, * Are you afraid ?' 
 To which he answered, * I am thinking of one who is dead and buried whom you are like.' To 
 which the apparition replied with the like voice, * I am he that you were thinking of. I am Edward 
 Avon, your father-in-law. Come near to me ; I will do you no harm.' Goddard answered, * I trust 
 in Him who hath bought my soul you shall do me no harm.' Then the apparition said, * How stand 
 cases at home ?' Goddard asked, ' What cases ?' Then it asked, * How do William and Mary ?' 
 meaning, as was conceived, his son, William Avon, a shoemaker here, and Mary, his daughter, the 
 said Goddard's wife. Then it said, * What Taylor is dead ?' meaning one Taylor, of London, who 
 had married his daughter Sarah, and died about Michaelmas last. Then the apparition held out its 
 hand, and in it, as Goddard conceived, twenty or thirty shillings in silver ; and then said, with a loud 
 voice, * Take this money, and send it to Sarah ; for I shut up my bowels of compassion to her in my 
 lifetime, and now here is somewhat for her.' And then said, • Mary (meaning his, the said Goddard's 
 wife, as he conceived,) is troubled for me ; but tell her I have received mercy contrary to my deserts.' 
 But Goddard answered, * I refuse all such money.' Upon which the apparition said, * 1 perceive you 
 are afraid. I will meet you some other time.' And immediately it went away up the lane. So 
 Goddard went over the same stile, but saw it no more that day. 
 
THE GODDARDS OF NORTH WILTS. 55 
 
 ** The next night, about sev^ o'clock, it came and opened Goddard's shop-window, and stood 
 in the same clothes as before, looking him in the face, but saying nothing. And the next night after, 
 as Goddard went forth into his back premises, with a candle-light in his hand, it appeared to him 
 again in the same shape ; but, being in fear, he ran into the house, and saw it no more then. 
 
 "But, on Thursday, the 12th instant, as he came from Chilton, riding from the hill between the 
 Manor-House and Axford Farm-field, he saw something like a hare crossing his way ; at which his 
 horse, being frighted, threw him in the dirt. As soon as he could recover his feet, the same apparition 
 met him again in the same habit j and, standing about eight feet before him in the way, spake again 
 to him in aloud voice, 'Source (a word he commonly used when living), you have stayed long. 
 Thomas, bid William Avon take the sword that he had of me, which is now in his house, and carry 
 it to the wood as we go to Alton, to the upper end of the wood by the wayside j for with that sword 
 I did wrong about thirty years ago, and he never prospered since he had that sword. And bid 
 William Avon give his sister Sarah twenty shillings of the money he had of me. And do you talk 
 with Edward Lawrence, for I borrowed twenty shillings of him several years ago, and did say I had 
 paid him, but I did not ; and I would desire you to pay him twenty shillings out of the money which 
 you had from James Elliot at two payments (which money the said Goddard now saith was ^^5 which 
 Elliot, a baker, owed to the deceased Avon on bond, and which he, Goddard, had received from 
 Elliot since Michaelmas in two payments, viz., 35s. at one and £2 S^- ^^ another payment),' And it 
 further said to him, * Tell Margaret (his widow) that I would desire her to deliver up the little which 
 I gave to little Sarah Taylor, either to the child herself, or to any one she will trust for it. But, 
 if she will not, speak to Edward Lawrence to persuade her j and if she will not then, tell her I will 
 see her very suddenly. And see that this be done within a twelvemonth and a day after my decease j 
 and peace be with you.' And so it went away over the rails into the wood there, in the like manner 
 that any man would go over a stile, to his apprehension j and so he saw it no more at that time. 
 And he saith, he paid the twenty shillings to Edward Lawrence, of this town j who, being present 
 now, doth remember that he lent the deceased twenty shillings about twenty years ago, which none 
 knew but himself and his wife, and Avon and his wife ; and that it had never been repaid to him 
 till now by this Goddard. 
 
 " And the said Goddard further saith. That this very day, by Mr. Mayor's orders, he with his 
 brother-in-law, William Avon, went with the sword, and about nine o'clock this morning laid it 
 down in the copse near the place the apparition had appointed ; and then, coming away thence, 
 Goddard, looking back, saw the same apparition in the like habit as before. Whereupon he called 
 to his brother-in-law, * Here is the apparition of our father.' Who said, ' I see nothing.' Then 
 Goddard fell on his knees and said, 'May his eyes be opened.' But the brother-in-law replied, ' Grant 
 that I may not see it.' The apparition then beckoned to Goddard to come to it, and said, « Thomas, 
 take up the sword and follow me.' Goddard said, 'Shall both of us come, or but one of us?' To 
 
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 which it answered, * Thomas, do you take up the sword." And so ]# took up the sword and followed 
 the apparition about ten lugs further into the copse, and, then turning back he stood still about a lug 
 and a half from it, his brother-in-law standing behind at the place where they first laid down the 
 sword. Then Goddard, laying down the sword upon the ground, saw something stand by the 
 apparition like a mastiff dog of a brown colour. Then, the apparition coming towards him, Goddard 
 stepped back about two steps, and the apparition said to him, * I have permission to you and 
 commission not to touch you.' And then it took up the sword and went back to the place at 
 which before it stood, with the mastiff dog by it as before ; and, pointing the top of the sword to 
 the ground, said, <In this place lies buried the body of him which I murdered in the year 1635, which 
 Is now rotten and turned to dust.' Whereupon Goddard said, * I do adjure thee, wherefore did you 
 do this murder?' And it said, *I took money from the man, and he contended with me, and so I 
 murdered him.' Then Goddard asked him who was confederate with him in the said murder? And 
 it said, * None but myself.' Then Goddard said, * What would you have me do in this thing ?' And 
 the apparition said, ' This is that the world may know that I murdered a man and buried him in this 
 place in the year 1635.' 
 
 **Then the apparition laid down the sword on the bare ground there, whereon grew nothing, 
 but seemed to Goddard to be as a grave sunk in ; and then the apparition, rushing further into the 
 copse, vanished j he saw it no more. Whereupon Goddard and his brother-in-law, Avon, leaving 
 the sword there and coming away together, Avon told Goddard he heard his voice and 
 understood what he said, and heard other words distinct from his, but could not understand a 
 word of it, nor saw any apparition at all, which he now, also present, afBrmeth, and all which the 
 said Goddard then attested under his hand, and affirmed that he would depose the same when he 
 should be thereto required. 
 
 ** Examined by me, William Bayly." 
 
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