By the Rev. Prebendary W. H. Jones. 103 



Abbatise de Shaston, Co. Dorset, 24 Henry VIII. (1428.) :— 



Paid in expenses of the Superior and a clerk and 

 other servants of the Abbess, when at Barminster 

 (Warminster?), and as far as to the Court at 

 Bradford : with shoes for the horses. 4 Nov. o v vii 

 In gifts of alms, to her alms-people at Bradford o o viii 

 To a Hermit, 6 Nov. o o ii^ 



To the servants of the Farmer of Bradford o o xii 



The architecture of this chapel of St. Audoen, judging- by what 

 remains of the rere-dos, and by the mouldings of the windows and 

 door-jambs, sections of which are given in the accompanying plate, 

 may well be set down to the earliest period of the Decorated Style, 

 or the reign of Edward I. Indeed the conclusions to which we 

 come from such a survey correspond remarkably with the docu- 

 mentary evidence that we have of the foundation of this Hospitmm 

 about the year 1267, and of its having been built most probably within 

 a few years of that time. 



Its history, as far as we can trace it, is as follows : the lands 

 attached to this Hospitium originally formed part of the Manor of 

 Bradford, and would seem to have been held under the Abbess of 

 Shaftesbury as Lady of the Hundred and Manor of Bradford. In 

 the middle of the thirteenth century, one described as " Martinus 

 capellanus," held these laods. They amounted in all to about "half 

 a hide" of land, probably from 60 to 70 acres, including the 

 meadows and pastures appurtenant to the holding, and these he gave 

 to the neighbouring Priory of Monkton Farieigh. We are fortunate 

 in having, in the Shaftesbury Chartulary, two documents which ex- 

 plain the whole of this transaction. 



The former of these deeds is as follows (Harl. MS. Q\,fol. 92) :— 



" De uno messuagio et dimid, hida terras concessa Deo et beatse Mariae de 

 Ffernleghu et monachis ibidem : videlicet in WroxhaUe. ^ _ 



Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Agnes de la Fferrer Abbatissa Sci. 

 Edwardi de Shaftesbury et ejusdem loci conventus communi asscnsu concessimus 

 et confirmamus Deo et beatte Mariae de Ffernleghe et monachis ibidem Deo ser- 

 vientibus, donum quod Martinus capellanus de Wrokeshalle eis fecit, videlicet 

 messuagium quod idem Martinus de nobis tenuit in villa de Wrockeshalle cum 

 dimid. hid. terrte et pratis et pascuis et omnibus pertinentiis suis. Habend. et 

 tenend. de nobis in perpetuum libere et quiete. Reddendo inde singulis annis 



