30 The History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



only by the changes which the lapse of time naturally brought 

 about in the designations of the various lands or tenements, and 

 their respective occupants. 



After enumerating the various lands belonging to the Rectory, 

 amongst which were plots of ground called — Prebend Close, — 

 Parson's Hamme, — Parson's Gore, — Nithes, — a little dole in Stan- 

 ton Meade, — three halves (acres) in Whetton Ditch, — the same 

 quantity upon Stibbe, and in the Panne, — one halve (acre) in 

 crosse furlong shooting upon Harepath^ way, — the Terrier for 

 1608, thus recites the privileges of the Rector : — 



" Item feeding for fourty and two sheep upon the East Down 



Item feeding for three Rother beastes upon the East Downes. 



Item feeding for thirty sheep in the common fields. 



Item one beaste leaze and three sheep leaze in Farrell. 



Item four kine leaze in the farme ground called Hill ground and the meade 

 adjoining either into Great Oxmoore or into Ould-meade, to be kept from 

 the feast of the Invention of the Crosse until St. Martin's day. 



Item we present that we have heard that the Parson ought to have eight 

 oxen to goe and to feed with the farmers' oxen but we did never know 

 them to goe there, but only foure markes Ln money to have been paid ".* 



Church Land and House. 

 There is no evidence of any land having ever been left to the 

 parish for church purposes. The east end of the Rectory House, 

 was built during the Incumbency of Mr. Davis, 1800 — 1807, and 

 some rooms to the west were added by the present Rector. The 

 oldest portion of the building is the centre facing the church-yard, 

 on which there is the date, A.D. 1642, which was formerly ap- 

 proached by a road running through the middle of the opposite 

 garden. Nearly all the space now occupied by a walled kitchen- 

 garden to the south-west was more than fifty years ago taken up 

 by a pond. The fine beech tree on the lawn of the Rectory was 

 planted by Mr. Methuen on his first entering on the Incumbency, 

 and is therefore now some 57 years old. 



' This is the old Anglo-Saxon word here-pajb, literally army -path, a road 

 wide enough for the passage of an army. The word is commonly used to desig- 

 nate what we now call a high road, and is of very frequent occurrence in 

 ancient charters. 



• In the Terrier for 1783, the matter is thus more fully explained : — " The Parson ought to have 

 eight oxen to go and feed with the farmers' oxen, but we did never know them to go there but only 

 four marks in money by the year, which the Farmer did usually pay to the Parson." 



