. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. ish churches of Painswick, Brockworth, Prestbury, Sevenhampton,and Haresfield ; together with the tithes of fifty-one places in England,excluding Wales and Ireland. ^ At the Dissolution the site was grantedto Arthur Porter. Sir Arthur Porter, his grandson, left an only daughterwho married Sir John Scudamore, ancestor of Viscount Scudamore, whowas the proprietor at the beginning of the last century. The propertypassed to the Duke of Norfolk by marriage with Frances Fitzroy Scudamore,and then to the family of Higford, who
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. ish churches of Painswick, Brockworth, Prestbury, Sevenhampton,and Haresfield ; together with the tithes of fifty-one places in England,excluding Wales and Ireland. ^ At the Dissolution the site was grantedto Arthur Porter. Sir Arthur Porter, his grandson, left an only daughterwho married Sir John Scudamore, ancestor of Viscount Scudamore, whowas the proprietor at the beginning of the last century. The propertypassed to the Duke of Norfolk by marriage with Frances Fitzroy Scudamore,and then to the family of Higford, who are the present proprietors,The members then proceeded to Hempsted. where they were received by the Rev. B. S. Dawson, the rector, and , who conducted them to the picturesque parish church. A notice1 The Prior of Llanthony possessed the franchise of the gallows in the Manor of Alving--ton, and two others, one for unnamed Manors in the Hundred of \^ hitestone, and the otherfor uiuianied Manors in the Hundred of Dudstan. (See ante Vol. XII. pp. 120, 121).— HKMPSTF,t>, of it was given by the late Rev. Petit, M. A., with an etching in his inimit-able style, in of the Arch. Jour, (1S49), reproduced PI. V. The chapelof St. Ann, presently to be noticed, isalso there illustrated, which remains inmuch the same condition as it did just40 years ago, except that half the thorntree is broken down. The short des-cription of Hempstead then given bythe talented writer, is, we think, worthprinting in full as an introduction to therectors paper to follow in this Petit writes: HempsteadChurch,near Gloucester, is a picturesque objectboth in form and construction. Thetower, which is central, is not so Mideas the chancel or nave ; but that the im-posts of the transverse arches may notproject inconveniently into the body ofthe church, a span is given them nearlycorresponding to the full width of thethe building ; the north and southarches, however, supportin
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