Identifier: transactionsofbr37bris (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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As to his marriage, Mr. Arthur Playne informs me that Samuel
Sheppard was only thirteen years of age at the time of the death of Henry Brydges, and,
moreover, did not acquire the Manors of Minchinhampton and Avening from the
Trustees of Lord Windsor till 1650. He left only two daughters, one of whom, Anne,
died unmarried, and the other, Isabel, in infancy. In Collins's Peerage under Chandos, it
is stated that Henry Brydges married Alice, widow of one of the Comptons of Hartpury.
Now in the record of the Consistory Court of Gloucester there is an account of divorce
proceedings taken in 1531-2 by an Alice Compton against Walter Compton. She must
then have been not less than thirty-five. There is no statement as to the result, but
in any case, as Walter Compton did not die till June 12th, 1627, Henry Brydges who
died in 1615 cannot have married his widow. Besides in Bigland, and in Collins, under
Compton, the only wife of Walter is given as Dorothy, daughter of John Higford.
Another Walter Compton, but not of Hartpury, married Alice Lytlcy of Warwick.

² See Church Plate of Gloucestershire, pp. 10, 11, and 64.

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DOUGHTON MANOR

Annual Spring Meeting. 3

DOUGHTON MANOR.

An hour was spent at Avening, and then through Tetbury the party
journeyed to Doughton, where they were received by Mr. A. C. Mitchell,
of Highgrove, and Mr. T. Knight, the occupant of the fine old Jacobean
residence, which was inspected with much profit and pleasure.
This delightful old house is the chief but by no means the only
residence of interest in the hamlet of Doughton, about a mile and a half
south of Tetbury. Tt is a large stone building with many gables, the
greater part of the walling being covered with rough-cast, and consists
of a central block with wings, which are not quite symmetrical, the
plan being in the shape of an E. In both material and design the
house presents much that is characteristic of late sixteenth century work
in Gloucestershire, for although the date is later (about 1630), the general
style of the building is somewhat early considering the late date. This
was probably due to its isolation. The chimneys have evidently been
rebuilt, and have none of the character which is often so delightful in
buildings of this period.

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