Hello Josephine Thank you, now I must try to get forward from them to the GRAYLEs I have got back to with my gggm. Mike ________________________________ Hi Mike, There's no reference to PIKE, but there are three references to GRAYLE in  A History of Malmesbury (1999) by Jane Freeman and Aelred Watkin with  contributions by H.F. Chettle, Elizabeth Crittall and D.A. Crowley. On page 39, Henry GRAYLE is mentioned in connection with Adam ARCHARD and  Thomas HALL selling the lands of Burton Hill manor to him in 1577. There's  a reference on this page to Henry GRAYLE and his son David buying  Cowbridge Mill and other lands from Nicholas ARCHARD in 1612. On page 95, there's a reference to Henry GRAYLE in 1654 giving a rent  charge of £10 per year from lands in Great Somerford so that poor children  of Malmesbury could be apprenticed. Josephine