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From The Visitation of Somerset, 1623
ALEXANDER ,
Justice of the Peace, dc1628
Married Unknown Brooke
Alexander second married
Gertrude Stocker
In 1603 49
customary tenants appeared at Alexander Ewens’ first court for North Cadbury,
possibly representing most households in North Cadbury village.
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By 1534 any land
which had formerly belonged to the benefice of Wincanton had been absorbed into
the estate of Stavordale priory as a result of the successive appropriations of
the RECTORY and the vicarage. (fn. 66) Tithes remained separate and in 1534 were
let for a fee farm rent of £8 to Elizabeth FitzJames. (fn. 67) In 1544 they were
sold to William Stourton, Baron Stourton (d. 1548). (fn. 68) William's son
Charles was attainted in 1557 and in 1576 the Crown let the forfeited property
to Roger Manners for the same fee farm rent. (fn. 69) By 1581 the tithes had
passed to John Ewens (d. 1585) who left them to his wife Ancrett. (fn. 70) Their
son Alexander with his son Matthew sold them in 1615 to Barnaby Lewis (fn. 71)
and they descended with the Lewis share of Wincanton manor (fn. 72) until 1704
when William Lewis sold the tithes of Marsh to James Wickham. (fn. 73)
*MATTHEW, born North
Cadbury, Somerset, England
14 May 1628 Mathew died in Somerset,
ref buried Church of St. Michael, North Cadbury, Somerset, England
ref Barrington 65.
(from Church of St.
Michael, North Cadbury, undated; Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West
Somerset, 1958).
Memorials mostly C19 and C20, but in tower space two large chest tombs of early
C17; one dated 1611, probably of Sir Francis Hastings, died 1610, and his wife,
died 1596, who is commemorated by a 96-line poem engraved on a brass above;
the other to Ewens Fuily, Katherine died 1612 and %atthew died 1629;