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Yatton Keynell, Wiltshire
John Aubrey's visit to Yatton Keynell
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Transcription of Pages 120 - 122
Text by John Aubrey
YATTON KEYNELL. [1]
In the partition, between the Church and Chancell, which is of very curious
gothique worke in freestone, are these escutcheons.
1. KEYNELL (No. 188)
2. YEVELTON, I guess (No. 189)
3. CHADERTON (No. 190)
4. Two lions, or griffins, defaced. (The former; for DELAMERE, No. 191. Ed.)
In the East windowe of the South Aisle, is the coate of HALL. (No. 192)
On a pillar, on a stone scutcheon is KEYNELL (as before). On the other side, in a stone escutcheon, GORE (No. 193), and two other scutcheons scraped out.
I have heard my grandfather say that when he went to school in this Church, in the S. windowe of the Chancell, were several escutcheons, which a herald,
that passed by, tooke note of, which window is now dammed up with stones, and now no memorie left of them. [2]
The pulpit is of stone, the most curious carving in our country. [3]
On the first Bell this Inscription: ETERNIS ANNIS RESONET TAMPANA JOHANNIS.
Mem. Here were the Lovells living in my grandfather Lyte's dayes: their house was the handsome old built howse near Penny Pool.
Q. Lovell's coat. [4]
The soil clay and stoney. Here is a Tile quarry. In the ploughed lands store of yarrowe, and in the feeding grounds plenty of wood-wax,
and in several grounds, centaury and wood sorrell, &c. sowre plants. Lady's bedstrawe. [5]
Notes to the above text, by John Jackson
[1] The true name of this parish is Eaton: Kaynel being that of a family to whom it anciently belonged. The inhabitants
commonly called it Yatton: except when they wish to distinguish the main village from a hamlet within it called West Yatton: and
then they recur to the original word, calling the former, Church Eaton.
In 1316 Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel and Henry de Lancaster, and in 1330 Edmund, Earl of Kent, were chief Lords of the manor. The Kaynels
are found in adjoining parishes in temp. Hen. III., and in 1318 the name of William Keynel first appears as patron of this rectory. In 1473
(*see later note) Richard Kaynel married Edith daughter of Thomas Hall of Bradford; and their grand-daughter Elizabeth Kaynel an heiress
brought a moiety of the manor, and 590 acres here and elsewhere, in marriage to Thomas Gore of Alderton, who died 1532 (ancestor of the
Heraldic country gentleman of that name.) This moiety and the Advowson were sold by Richard Gore their grandson to the Snells of
Kington St. Michael, (in whose pedigree is an intermarriage with Kaynal of Biddeston,) in 1557. One moiety of the manor of Yatton was
held, 1587, under the Lordship of the Hundred of Chippenham. Sir Charles Snell sold it c. 1623 (Wilts. Mag. IV. 45). The Yeoviltons
whose arms are on the stone screen were, temp. Edw. III. owners of Easton Piers in the next parish: as well of lands here. (Wilts. Mag. IV. 75.)
Two Rectors of this parish, George Child, 1661, and his son Williamson Child were very near of kin (the former is believed to have been uncle)
to Sir Francis Child, Lord Mayor of London, the founder of the first Bank, in Fleet Street. Aubrey mentions this in Nat. Hist. of Wilts.
70. The name is still found in the adjoining parish of Castle Combe.
[2] In his "Nat. Hist. of Wilts." p. 79, Aubrey mentions that he "entered into his Grammar at the Latin School at Yatton Keynel, in the
Church were the Curate, Mr. Hart, taught the eldest boys, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, &c." Then follows a curious account of the way in which
the old Missals of Malmesbury Abbey were destroyed by being used for book-covers, &c. The then Rector of Yatton was Mr. William Stump,
great grandson of the wealthy clothier who had purchased the Abbey at the Dissolution. At page 81 of the same work, Aubrey also gives the
strange adventures in Guiana of Cept. Thomas Stumpe, one of the Rector's sons.
[3] This pulpit has disappeared. The beautiful stone screen remains, and is in a state of fair preservation.
[4] There is a pond in the village, commonly called Halfpenny Pool: near which, in the recollection of old persons living, stood about
50 years ago, a house of good quality, of Elizabethan style, with a private chapel attached to it, having niches for Saints, &c. Aubrey alludes
to it in "Nat. Hist. of Wilts." p. 41.
[5] The particular quarry meant is probably the very large one at Giddy Hall, of the Forest marble grit, yielding great flagstones.
Speaking of these "sowre plants" in "Nat. Hist. of Wilts." p. 105, he observes, "Yet the cheese made at Broomfield in this parish was the best
in the neighbourhood."
* In the copy of the book I have, someone has written "must have been earlier than that as she is mentioned in Thomas Hall's will of 1457." M. Ball
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