By 1715 the income from Anthony's (Methuen) properties in Bradford, Beckington, Freshford, Cheddon and Withy is shown as £1077 a year. Freshford accounts for £242 of the total, with most of the Villagers paying rent to him. He dies soon after in 1717 and his son Thomas Methuen (1684-1737) continues running the family clothing business and marries the rich heiress -ANNE SELFE. The properties in Freshford are passed from them to their son Paul Methuen ( 1723-1795).
Paul Methuen decides in 1745 to pay £11,000 for an Elizabethan Mansion with an estate in nearby Corsham .and with the help of Capability Brown transforms it ready to house his Uncle John's Collection of Paintings.
SEE: http://www.freshford.com/methuenhome1.htm
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