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The Manor of Bunshill, or Bonshill, and appurtenances; lands at Caldycote; 

 tenements and parcells of land in the city of Hereford and its suburbs ; land at 

 Myryvale Hill ; land, buildings, and mill, at Rolveston, or Rolston ; the Acre 

 Meadow at Stoke Edyth, and lands at Weston-juxta-Stoke Edith ; a close at 

 Shokenhill, with other properties at Much Byrche, Pembridge, Peterchurch, 

 Stokeblys, and Vowchurch, within the county. Beyond Herefordshire the Priory 

 was possessed of the church and tythes of Penalley, or Pennalee, in Pembrokeshire; 

 land and Manor of Bourley, and at Ludlow, Salop ; tenements at Monmouth, 

 land at Kempsey, and tenements and garden at Tettebury, in Gloucestershire. 



The Deeds with reference to property in the city of Hereford have a local 

 interest from the names in use in olden times. In 1399, the Mother Prioress, Joan 

 Ledbury, leases a curtilage, with appurtenances, in the suburbs of Hereford, in 

 a street called "Aboveyeyne." In 1425, Dame Ann Barry, the Prioress, signs a 

 lease of a house in, le Vyshams Rowe ; in 1437, a lease from Elizabeth (surname 

 not given), the Prioress, gives to John Herbert, mercer, a certain third part of a 

 house lying in the city of Hereford, in le Gebyn Rowe, opposite Good Knaves 

 Inn, for 41 years ; in 1474, Joan Draper, the Prioress, assigns, for 80 years, " a 

 messuage situate in Rangia Piscator," between the house of John Barre, Knight, 

 and the house of Henry Chippenham ; in 1517 an arbitrement is given relating to 

 certain tenements lying within the city of Hereford, by St. Owen's Gate, in a 

 street there, called "Hungrei-street," some time "Moneywards," otherwise called 

 " Wilton's Ynne " ; in 150(3, and again in 1528, the Prioress, Isabella Gardiner, 

 leases a garden at Blackmason "well set with saforne. " In 1530, Thomas Gebons, 

 mercer, very politely leases to Isabella Gardiner, Prioress, " a stabull set and 

 lying in the street called ' Wroughthale,' " for 99 years, under the annual rent of 

 a red rose on the Feast of St. John Baptist, if the said rose be lawfully demanded; 

 and forasmuch as the seal of the said Thomas Gebons to divers persons is unknown, 

 therefore the seal of the Mairaltie of the city of Hereford is fixed thereunto. 

 The same Prioress leases a close at Shokenhull, under the annual rent of four 

 shillings, a rose, and a potill of Wynne, to be paid on the feast of All Saints only. 



The saffron grown at Blackmarston was the Saffron crocus. Crocus sativus, of 

 which the pistil and part of the style from the centre of the flower only was used, 

 so that it took six crocus blossoms to i^roduce a single grain of dried saffron. It 

 is a cordial, and aromatic both to smell and taste, and gives a rich yellow or 

 orange colour to sweetmeats and cakes. It was used very much formerly ; and to 

 this day the saffron cake always forms part of family festivities throughout 

 Cornwall, and is even used very frequently to give its yellow colour to ordinary 

 buns. 



An impression in red wax of the Common Seal of Aconbury Priory of the 

 date of 1447 is extant in the Augmentation Office, and a copy privately printed 

 (1768) is now in St. Michael's Priory with Mr. R. B. Phillips' MS. notes. It 

 represents a Prioress with a cross* in her hand. The legend is "sigill : conventus 

 DK corneburia" (Duydole). 



* The Cross may be accounted for by the fact of the Priory having been originally dedicated 

 to The Holy Cross. (Edit.) 



