Life in an English village, an economic and historical survey of the parish of Corsley in Wiltshire . arrel in which pitch hath been,besides 5 or 6 lbs. of pitch. 2 Wiltshire had long been a centre of cloth-making,but we find no record or trace of the establishmentof this industry in Corsley before the Civil population was almost entirely agricultural, andthe chief inhabitants yeoman farmers. The Lyefamily, to whom tradition ascribes considerable im-portance in the parish, who presented to the beneficeup to the year 1485 and who have left a permanentmark in the name of one of the most
Life in an English village, an economic and historical survey of the parish of Corsley in Wiltshire . arrel in which pitch hath been,besides 5 or 6 lbs. of pitch. 2 Wiltshire had long been a centre of cloth-making,but we find no record or trace of the establishmentof this industry in Corsley before the Civil population was almost entirely agricultural, andthe chief inhabitants yeoman farmers. The Lyefamily, to whom tradition ascribes considerable im-portance in the parish, who presented to the beneficeup to the year 1485 and who have left a permanentmark in the name of one of the most important ofthe hamlets which constitute the parish, appear tohave died out or left the place about this time. Thewill of William Lye, of Corsley, husbandman, wasproved in 1557, and John Lye, of Corsley, wasmarried at Frome in 1597. His administrationwas granted in 1603, the occupations of the twoCorsley men who were his bonds being respectively husbandman and driver. 3 1 John J. Daniell, History of Warminster, pp. 63, 64. 2 The Lyes of Corsley, by J. Henry Lea. To be published SEIGNORIAL UNIFICATION 19 In the Quarter Sessions records of the year 1599we find mention of three inhabitants of Corsley—John Smyth, alias Singer, carpenter ; Lambe,husbandman ; and John Holloway, Similarly, whenever we meet with an allusion toa man of Corsley, his occupation, if stated, is onebelonging to a farming community, engaged in themain in tilling the soil and the care of animals, with,no doubt, a few subsidiary occupations, such as black-smith and carpenter, and perhaps also tailor andshoemaker. An apparent exception occurs in the list of con-tributors to the Corsley parish stock. These includetwo vintners, a merchant, an upholsterer, and avictualler. If these people resided and carried ontheir business in Corsley, the parish was not alwayspurely agricultural in character. But more probablythese were men of Corsley abstraction, or men whocame to pass their ol
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