94 PATF. OK MF.T.P.nURNK PARISH CHURCH. 



and " Rufus." The Domesday Record shows that the King's 

 revenue derived from Melbourne had become less assured in 

 A.D. 1084 than in 1066. Great "Norman" Abbey and Priory 

 Churches were being built in England during the reigns of two 

 Williams, and there are still remains of the chapels in the castles 

 they erected ; but as to any Parish Church having been erected by 

 their immediate direction, there seems to be little probability. 



Failing a definite pronouncement by a competent authority, 

 after an adequate study of the Church, and of what can be learned 

 of its history, I do not venture to do more than ask the question. 

 May not Melbourne Church be, in the main, the Church men- 

 tioned in the Domesday Record ? 



W. D. Fane. 



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