COLLINGBOURN-DUCIS, a parish in the hundred
of ELSTUB-and-EVERLEY, county of WILTS, 2f
miles (N. W.) from Ludgershall, containing 476. inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, within the jurisdiction
of the peculiar court of the Lord Warden of Savernake
Forest; rated in the king's books at £16. 6. 8.,
and in the patronage of the Marquis of Ailesbury;
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. This was. formerly
part of the duchy of Lancaster, from which it
acquired the adjunct to its name; but Henry VIII.
alienated it to the Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of
Somerset, and Protector of England, upon whose -attainder
it reverted to the crown, and was granted by
Queen Elizabeth to Edward, Earl of Hertford, whose
descendants inherited all the former possessions of the
Duke of Somerset.