How many women are there in the Goddard family called Priscilla? Well I can tell you - loads! Sadly few of them left us any evidence of their lives bar an entry in the parish registers, except for the woman I think of as Priscilla the First. The name originated with Priscilla D'Oyley who married Edward Goddard on August 13, 1611, in the parish church of Stadhampton, five miles north of Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. Priscilla was born in 1593, the daughter of John D'Oyley and his wife Ursula. Edward and Priscilla lived at homes in Inglesham and Box where Priscilla died in 1681. There is a memorial to the Goddard couple in St Thomas a Becket Church, Box. The Goddard family weathered the turmoil of the Civil War but like the St John family at Lydiard Park, they struggled with split loyalties. Edward was a Parliamentarian while his elder brother Thomas, Lord of the Manor of Swindon, was a Royalist and like the St Johns the war both divided yet protected the family and...