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it been ascertained how soon a Priory or Cell was established 

 here. Its earliest Prior whose name has been preserved was 

 "Hada,"* who was' Prior in 2. H. III. The Priory however 

 was no doubt founded many years previous to this date, for some 

 of the arches which formed part of the church, and which are 

 still preserved in Mr. Bond's private chapel at Grange, — having 

 been removed thither by Dennis Bond, Esq., in 1746, — are of an 

 early Norman character. Some fragments of shafts and capitals 

 have also been found on the site of the priory church which are 

 of the Early English style, and a coffin-lid of Purbeck marble 

 bearing the effigy in low relief of a priest with a chalice in his 

 hands, was disinterred several years ago. It was of an early 

 period, but having been unfortunately left exposed to the open 

 air, the sculpture has entirely perished. 



East Holme was a manor, and is still a separate parish, the 

 whole of the tithes of which were impropriated by its ecclesias- 

 tical owners. After the dissolution, the site of the priory was 

 granted by King Ed. VI, a. r. 1, to the Protector Somerset, that 

 great devourer of monastic property. On his attainder, it re- 

 verted to the crown, and was given in 1 & 2 Ph. & Mar., to 

 John Hannam, Esq. in whose family it continued till the reign 

 of Wm. III. After this it became the property of Gabriel 

 Odengselles, Esq. who in 1722 sold it to Dennis Bond, Esq. of 

 Grange, from whom it has been transmitted through four genera- 

 tions to its present proprietor, Nathaniel, eldest son of the Rev. 

 Nathaniel Bond, of the Grange. 



The Rectory, or parsonage impropriate, of East Holme, passed 

 through various unknown hands after the dissolution, and was 

 at length sold by Robert Frampton, of Bere, to Dennis Bond, 

 Esq. above mentioned, and thus it became once more united to 

 the rest of the estate. 



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