Prebendal Estate in Allington. 199 



An "extent," or detailed description, of the Manor appears 

 to be given in the account of the lands of Thomas la Warre,^ 

 who held the estate at the commencement of the 15th century. 



It may be added that the Lord of the Manor of All Cannings 

 receives twenty shillings per annum, by way of quit rent, from 

 land at Allington. In a previous page (p. 13), it has been alluded 

 to as an annual " Pension from the Prebend," when recording 

 the profits of the Manor in the 16th century. 



The Prebendal Estate in Allington. 



"What is commonly termed the Prebend of All Cannings in the 

 Church of St Mary, Winchester, derived its revenues from lands 

 or tithes in Allington. A certain portion of the property of the 

 Abbess had been thus assigned from an early period for the purpose 

 of constituting a Prebend in connection with that Religious House. 



The earlest valuation of the Prebend is contained in the Taxatio 

 Ecclesiastica.' It is there called the " Prebend of S. Mary, Winton, 

 in the Church of Albecanying." The annual value is estimated at 

 20 marks, or £13 6s. 8d. By reference to p. 22, it will be seen 

 that the Rectory and the Prebend were reckoned as of equal value at 

 the close of the 13th century. 



In the Inquisitiones Nonarum,^ we have the following entry 

 respecting the Prebend : — 



** Prebenda in eadem villa [de Allekanyng] taxatur in xx mare. Nona para 

 vellerum, garbarum, et agnorum anno preterite viii marc. Prebendar. 

 habet in dote ix solid, redd. ; pratum in dote xx solid. ; decimse feni xxvi 

 solid, iv den. ; linum et alise minutae xx solid. Porcio Abb. Winton. beatae 

 Marise, videlicet, nonse gaibarum vellerum et agnorum val. preterito anno 

 vi marc, et speetat ad prebendam predictam." 



The reserved rent belonging to the Abbess of St. Mary Winton 

 is, in subsequent documents, valued at £2 per annum. 



The estate at Allington remained as the property of the Preben- 

 dary till the Reformation. At that time, by virtue of the Act of 

 Parliament passed for the purpose, it was, like other pioperty of 



1 Tnq. p. M., 5 Hen. VI. (1426). « Taxat. Eocles., p. 189. 

 *Inquis. Non. p. 157. 



