330 Rood Ashton, Sc. 
The Rectory was impropriate to Romsey Abbey, and the Abbess 
presented to the Vicarage. After the Dissolution the Crown was 
Patron till about 1662: then the Martyn family. In 1698 the Rev. 
Drue Drury, of Riddlesworth Hall, in Norfolk, gave the impropriate 
parsonage, then worth £120 a year, to Magdalene College, Cam- 
bridge, for the maintenance of a Fellowship for ever to be called 
“The Norfolk Travelling Fellowship.” He also gave the Vicarage 
to the same college.' 
A pair of vestments of blue velvet, cope and amice to the same. 
Of blue lattyn of Bridggis [Bruges] 1 cope. 
Of red velvet 1 pair of vestments. 
Of green velvet do. 
Of white damaske do. 
Of black silk one whole suit of vestments with alb and amice. 
Of purple silk 1 cope. 
Of green silk 1 do. 
3 corporas cases of silke and one of them embroidered with gold. 
Of green silk a sepulchre cloth. 
Of sad silk, one altar cloth. 
For corporases, six kerchiefs.” 
An account book contains, among other payments :— 
“©1559. P4, for pulling down of the Roode iiij‘. 
P‘, for pulling down of the Altar viij*. 
Ree‘, for smoke farthings vij’. ij’. 
y Roger Martyn hath a holy-water pot and a brasen staff. 
1587. By consent of the Parish, W™. White the clarke shall keepe the 
clock, bells, make clean the church, sweep the leads and ring the 
bell for Courfue and Day, and shall have yearlie for his labour 
pan) MNT ad 
1JIn the Edington Chartulary in the British Museum, No. 38, is a copy of the 
Endowment of the Vicarage of Steeple Ashton. It is in Latin, and I took from 
it some years ago the following notes :—~ 
“1 Oct., 1252. To all, &c. William of York, Bp. of Sarum, greeting. 
Whereas our Lord the Pope granted Ashton Church [t.e., the Rectory] to 
Constance Abbess, and the convent of Romsey to be applied to their own uses, 
saving a competent vicarage : we with her consent, &c. have ordained as follows. 
Maintaining the old Vicaz’s portion which was, Oblations and confessions, tithe 
of wool and lambs, cheese, milk, pigs [as well out of the court of the Abbess, 
as of the whole Parish], tithe of mill, pannage of pigs, Cheresett in all tithes of 
domain of the Parson and tenants, apples and all small tithes in the Abbess’s 
Court and in all the parish, ‘ esculefitum et poculentum’ supplied according to 
custom to the Vicar at Christmas and Easter by the convent: there shall also 
accrue to Vicar Godwyn and all his successors, All the tithe with “ villan” 
