THOMAS GODDARD, succeeded to the estates of his father, who was buried at Albourn, where there is a very handsome monument to the memory of himself and second wife. The will of Thomas Goddard is dated 1609. He m. first, Dorothy Stephens, who was related to the Phetyplace family, and was buried at Hungerford, 8th January, 1588, leaving issue one son,

1. FRANCIS, his heir, of whom presently. He (Thomas Goddard) m. secondly, Margaret, daughter of George Burley, esq. of Pottern, Wilts, and by her had issue,

II. Sarah.

III. Katherine, d. unm. He d. 15th January, 1652, and was s. by his son,

EDWARD GODDARD, esq. who inherited his father's estates at Standen - Hussey and Cliffe-Pypard in 1652. He m. in 1656, Bridget, daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp, bart. (who surviving her husband, m. secondly, John Kasper Keiling, esq.; and thirdly, in 1714, Thomas Young, esq.) He d. in 1684, having had issue,

I. FRANCIS, his heir, b. 14th April, 1657. 11. Richard, b. 22nd December, 1658; died young.

III. Edward, d. s. p.

FRANCIS GODDARD, esq. succeeded his fa

daughter of William Horde.

11. Edward, b. 3rd November, 1597.

IV. Thomas, died young.

v. John, died young.

1. Dorothy.

11. Elizabeth.

Albourn, and had issue,

1. Thomas Walrond.

2. Edward Walrond.

1. Katherine Walrond.

The eldest son,

FRANCIS GODDARD, esq. succeeded his father in the estates of Standen-Hussey, Cliffe-Pypard, and Albourn (of which latter place he sold the manor, a very ancient holding of his ancestors, to John Southby, esq. of Buckland, Berks, in 1636). He served the office of high sheriff for the county of Wilts in the 10th year of King CHARLES I., 1635. He m. Sarah, daughter of Sir Anthony Hungerford,* of Black-Bourton, in the county of Oxon, and had issue,

1. EDWARD, his heir, b. 22nd April,

1634. II. Francis, who afterwards possessed estates at Purton and Cowich, from whom GODDARD, of Purton.

1. Margaret, d. unm.

* This Sir Anthony Hungerford m. first wife as follows: "Here lieth the body of Sir John St. John, knt. who m. Lucy, daughter and co-heir of Sir Walter Hungerford, knt. and bart. She was secondly married to Sir Anthony Hungerford, knt. and died 4th June, 1598."-From a monument in the chancel of the church of Lydiard Tregose, containing the pedigree of the noble family of St. John from the Conquest till the 17th century, shewing how they are allied to royal blood.

one daughter,

EDWARD, his heir, b. in 1722.

Sarah, m. John Mackrell, esq. d. s. p. The only son,

EDWARD GODDARD, esq. of Cliffe-Pypard, succeeded his father on attaining his majority in 1743, and m. 27th August, 1754, Johanna, daughter of Henry Read,† esq. of Crowood, near Ramsbury, Wilts. He served the office of high sheriff for that county in 1767, and afterwards entering into holy orders became vicar of Cliffe-Pypard, of which living he was patron. He d. 6th January, 1791; Johanna his wife d. 22nd February, 1802, and was buried beside him in the family vault in Cliffe church, having had issue by him,

1. EDWARD, of Cliffe-Pypard, who suc

The daughter of the Rev. Mr. Read, brother of Henry Read, esq. above-mentioned, m. the Rev. Mr. Bushell, rector of Lacock, in the county of Wilts, and by him had issue one daughter, Elizabeth, who m. first, John Jacob, esq. of Tokenham House, near Wotton Bassett, without issue; she m. secondly, John Gaisford, esq. who possessed estates at Iford, in the said county, from which marriage sprung the Rev. Thomas Gaisford, D.D. dean of Christchurch College, Oxon, prebendary of St. Paul's and Llandaff, and Charlotte Gaisford, who is stated, in the pedigree of Goddard, of Purtun, to have m. Captain Thomas Dewell, of Dauntsey House, in the county of Wilts.

Mary, daughter of Ambrose Awdry, esq. of Melksham, Wilts, and by her (who d. 17th December, 1707, and was buried at St. Lawrence Jewry, London) left at his decease, in 1703, (he was buried at Box), two sons, Thomas, b. at Box 3rd April, 1688; d. unmarried. AMBROSE, of whom hereafter as inheritor of the Swindon estates.

5. Edward, b. in 1622.

1. Elizabeth.

2. Priscilla.

3. Martha.

AMBROSE GODDARD, esq. who then became of Swindon, b. 6th November, 1695. He m. 16th August, 1716, Elizabeth, daughter of Ambrose Awdry, esq. of Seend, and had issue,

THOMAS, bapt. 6th March, 1722, was
elected M.P. for Wilts on the demise
of Sir Robert Long, bart. He died
unm. 12th August, 1770, and was bu-
ried at Swindon.
EDWARD, bapt. 16th October, 1725; d.
unm. and was buried at Swindon.
AMBROSE, of whom presently.
Mary, m. to Thomas Vilett, esq. of
Swindon, ancestor of Thomas Vilett,
esq. lieutenant-colonel in the army,
now residing on his estates at Swin-

don, the present representative of an ancient family.

Elizabeth, died unmarried.

Priscilla, m. to John Awdry, esq. of
Melksham, and died at Lisbon.

Lucy.
Anne.
Mr. Goddard d. in 1755, and was buried at
Swindon. His third son,

AMBROSE GODDARD, esq. succeeded, on the death of his elder brothers, to the Swindon estates, and represented the county of Wilts in Parliament from the year 1772 until 1806. He m. 16th August, 1776, Sarah, only daughter and heir of Thomas Williams, esq. of Pilrowth, in Carmarthenshire, and had issue,

THOMAS, his heir, b. in 1778; elected
M.P. for Cricklade in 1806; d. unm.
in 1814, before his father.
AMBROSE, Succeeded his father.
Richard, in holy orders, b. 9th October,
1787, formerly fellow of St. John's,
Oxford, at present rector of Draycot
Foliatt, and vicar of Kemble, Wilt-
shire. He resides at Broadstone,
near Heythrop, Oxfordshire.
Henry, b. 4th May, 1789; d. young.
Elizabeth, died unm. 1797.
Sarah.

Lucy, died unm. in 1800.

Emma, twin with Richard, d. unm. in 1802.

Ann, m. to Sir Thomas-Buckler Lethbridge, bart. of Sandhill Park, Somersetshire.

Priscilla, d. unm. 1805.

Margaret, d. unm. 1799.

Mr. Goddard d. 19th June, 1815, and was s. by his then eldest son, AMBROSE GODDARD, esq. present possessor.

Arms-As Goddard, of Cliffe.
Estates-In Wiltshire.
Seat-The Lawn, Swindon.

Goddard, of Purton, County of Wilts. FRANCIS GODDARD, esq. second son of Francis Goddard, of Standen-Hussey and Cliffe-Pypard, (see page 325), succeeded his father in an estate called Cowich, near Calne, in 1652, land which had been alienated from the church in the time of King HENRY VIII. He is stated in old papers to have had in his possession 66 a license of alienation from Sir John Williams to John Goddard of the said estate, dated iiiio year of EDWARD VI."" and a fine and deed of the xxxi° of Queen ELIZABETH, that declares the uses thereof to Thomas Goddard," son of John Goddard, of Standen-Hussey, and grandfather of Francis. That part of the estate called Attrels, situate in Hilmarton and Calne, was purchased afterwards in xxi° JAMES I. He resided on his estate at Purton, having married, in 1667, Elizabeth,

daughter of Thomas Thorner, esq. by whom he had issue,

1. Edward, d. s. p.

II. ANTHONY, who succeeded him. 1. Sarah, m. Charles Spenser, esq. 11. Emma, d. unm.

The second son,

ANTHONY GODDARD, on the death of his brother, succeeded to the estates of his father, of which he sold that of Cowich to Mr. Northey in 1720. Hem. Mary, daughter of Arthur Evans, esq. and had issue,

1. RICHARD, who succeeded him.
1. Mary, m. Charles Dewell,* of Malm-
esbury, by whom, who d. in Jamaica,
she had a son,

Timothy Dewell, who m. Elizabeth
Jenkyns, and had issue,
1. Charles Dewell.
2. Henry Dewell.
3. Arthur Dewell.

The only son,

4. Thomas Dewell, who m. first, Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Gaisford, esq. of Iford, in the county of Wilts, who died without issue. He m. secondly, 16th November, 1830, Henrietta - Susanna, daughter of Colonel Tufnell, of Sydney Place, Bath. He resides at Dauntsey House, in the county of

Wilts.

RICHARD GODDARD, M.D. succeeded his father in his estates at Purton, m. 1st August, 1753, Sarah, daughter of the Right Hon. Sir John Willes, lord chief justice of the Common Pleas, and by her had issue an only daughter and heiress,

MARGARET GODDARD, m. in 1792, to Robert Wilsonn, esq. and had issue four daugh

ters,

&c.

Arms-As Goddard, of Cliffe, Swindon,

* Dr. Timothy Dewell, rector of Lydiard Tregose, in the county of Wilts, m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Knight, esq. of Greenham, in the county of Berks, and by her had issue five children. He m. secondly, Anne, daughter of Anthony Saunders, and by her had issue five sons, of whom the above Charles Dewell was one. Dr. Dewell was rector of Lydiard forty-two years; he died 7th May, 1692.-(From an inscription in the chancel of Lydiard church).

Goddard, of Hartham.

THOMAS GODDARD,† of Ogbourn Saint George, in the county of Wilts, second son of John Goddard, of Upham, (see Goddard, of Cliffe, page 324), m. first, Anna Gifford, from whom GODDARD, of SWINDON. He m. secondly, Jane, daughter of John Ernley or Ernle, esq. of Cannings, in the county of Wilts, and Ernley, in the county of Sussex, (whose monument is in the church of Bishops Cannings, d. 1st February, 1571), and by her had issue.

ANTHONY GODDARD, his fourth son, of Hartham, who m. Joan, daughter of Roger Blake, of Penhills and of Calne, in the county of Wilts, by Mary his wife, daughter of Philip Baynard, of Lackham, in that county, and had issue,

EDWARD GODDARD, of Hartham, who m. Joan, daughter of Nicholas Webb, esq. and sister to William Webb, esq. of Ashwick, in the county of Gloucester, and by her had a son,

EDWARD GODDARD, of Ogbourn and Hartham, who d. 17th June, 1676, aged seventy, and was buried at Ogbourn St. Andrews ; Mary his wife was buried beside him 22nd November, 1678, aged fifty-six. Amongst other property derived from his ancestors this gentleman possessed the advowson of the rectory of Castle Eaton, in the county of Wilts, which has belonged to the Goddard family at this time about three hundred years. "In 1623 Johannes Hungerford de Stoke, in the county of Wilts, et Edwardus Goddarde de Hartham, Generosi," present William Smith to the above rectory on the death of Humphry Smith, (previous to this, in 1550, Johannes Goddard had presented Humfridus Golimore to the same), and in 1627 Edward Goddard presented it again. He was s. by his son,

EDWARD GODDARD, esq. of Hartham and Ogbourn St. Andrew, M.P. for the borough of Marlborough in time of King CHARLES II. He was buried at Ogbourn St. Andrew 11th June, 1679. By Elizabeth his wife, who was daughter to John Smith, esq. and sister of the Right Hon. John Smith, of Tedworth, in the county of Hants, speaker of the House of Commons, temp. Queen ANNE, he had issue,

1. JOHN, of Hartham, his heir.
II. THOMAS, in holy orders, M.A. canon
of Windsor, of whom presently.

+ Thomas Goddard, (called the elder) claiming under lease to his father and as devisee, is defendant in a cause in which his brother Thomas Goddard the younger, claiming as lessee of King PHILIP and Queen MARY, is plaintiff, respecting the manor of Albourn.-(Duchy Lancaster pleading).

From this Thomas came also the families of Goddard, of Castle Eaton and East Woodhay.

11. ELIZABETH, d. unm. Sept. 1797; buried at Eltham.

ANNE GODDARD, the elder daughter and co-heiress, m. Sir William James, bart. of Eltham, in the county of Kent, who died in December, 1783, and she died 9th August, 1789; they were both buried at Eltham, having had issue one son and one daughter,

1. Sir Edward - William James, bart. who died in November, 1792, and was buried at Eltham.

1, Elizabeth-Anne James, m. Thomas Parkyns, Lord Rancliffe in Ireland, and had issue,

George - Augustus - Henry - Anne
Parkyns, Lord Rancliffe, m.
in 1807, Lady Elizabeth-Mary
Forbes, dau. of George, sixth
Earl of Granard.

1. Elizabeth Anne, m. Sir
Richard Levinge, bart. of
High Park, in the county of
Westmeath, in 1810.
2. Henrietta-Elizabeth, m. to
Sir William Rumbold, bart.
in 1809.

3. Maria - Charlotte, m. first, the Marquess de Choiseul, in 1819; secondly, the Prince de Polignac, ex-minister to Charles X. of France. THOMAS GODDARD, clerk, M.A. canon of Windsor, second son of Edward Goddard, esq. of Hartham, m. Anne, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Beale; she died 27th November, 1727; their children were

across a vast tract to Surat in Bombay. "It was in the beginning of the year 1778 that, in order to extricate the presidency of Bombay, Mr. Hastings planned the adventurous march from the banks of the Jumnah to Surat across the whole peninsula of India. Goddard executed this bold, wise, and hazardous enterprise, with scarcely 7000 native troops, traversing hostile and almost unexplored portions of that continent for the space of above 800 miles."-(Wraxall's Memoirs, vol. i.)

III. John Goddard.

1. Anne Goddard, m. her cousin, Edward Grinfield, of Lockeridge, near Marlborough, son of William Grinfield, M.P. for the latter place. Arms-As Goddard, of Cliffe, &c.

Goddard, of Berwick-Bassett, Co. Wilts. Extinct.

THOMAS GODDARD, third son of John Goddard, of Upham, (see Goddard, of Cliffe, p. 324), buried at Cliffe in 1581; m. Mary, daughter of William Alleyne, of Calne. In the time of Queen ELIZABETH he was lord of Clatford, in the county of Wilts, which he had let on lease to John Young. He is mentioned in the proceedings of the Duchy of Lancaster, as having been defendant with his father-in-law Alleyne in a trial, in which his brother-in-law Thomas Hinton is plaintiff, relating to certain title-deeds, (temp. PHIL. and MARY). He is frequently called in the old writings Thomas Goddard, of Cleve or Cliffe, from his having lived in the manor-house of that parish, which he held under lease of his eldest brother John Goddard, of Standen-Hussey. His issue were 1. JOHN, his heir.

I. Alice.

II. Anne.

11. Henry Goddard, an officer in the army, who was father of Henry Goddard, and