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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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n; Great Chalfield Manor House;Siston Court, and Dyrham Park respectively. (5) To Major C. E. Davis, the Rev. Canon Quirk, the Rev. C. W. Shickle, Messrs. Frederick Shum, R. H. Moore, Thomas S.Bush, Wallace Gill, C. S. Adye, and the Revs. S. G. Winson,W. T. Blathwayt, and Mr. PuUen, for acting as guides to thevarious places of interest. (6) To the Chairman, Secretary, and Members of the Local Com- mittee for the excellent programme suggested by them, andto Thomas S. Bush, Esq., the local secretary, for his valuableassistance in conducting the meeting. (7) That the choice of places of meeting for 1901, and the nomina- tion of a President, be confided to the Council. 58 Transactions for the Year 1900. The question where next years meeting should be held was alsoconsidered. A resolution was adopted that the selection of ChippingCampden by the Council of the Society would be acceptable to themembers. Startmg from Bath at ten oclock, the members drove to Bitton toinspect the parish church.
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The manor of Bitton at the time of the Survey, 1086, was held, as ithad been in the Confessors time, by a Saxon Thane called Dons. He wasprobably the Dunne or Duns who before the Conquest held manors in BiTTON Church. 59 Rockhampton, Stoke, and Brimpsfield, and who was compelled by theConqueror to surrender them to Osbern Giffard. But the church of Bitton, which gave its name and probably its endow-ment to a prebendal stall in the cathedral church of St. Mary, Salisbury,held one hide of land in the parish. Moreover, a large portion of Bittonwas included in the ancient forest of Kingswood; but it was disafforestedin the time of Henry III., the King preserving a certain portion as a royalchase. At the accession of Henry II., Bitton was held by Adam dAmneville,who had two sons, Robert de Hanham and Roberf de Bitton. The formerwas the ancestor of the Blunts, who held half the manor till the reign ofHenry VIII., when it was sold to Sir Maurice Berkeley in 1515. Fromthe latter were descende

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