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List of Prebendaries. 



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. . . William de Baeton ; his appointmeut is implied by the entry that 



follows. 

 1319. RoBEET DE NoKTON ; OH the resignation of William dc Barton. 

 1333. TnoMAs de Beekham. 

 1337. RxcHAED DE NiBUEY ; appointed by Matilda,* Abbess of St. Mary, 



Winchester. 

 1337. RrcHAED de Thoemeeton, appointed by the Bishop, for this turn. 

 . . . William Weekman. 



1405, RicHAED Beankteee. 



1406. William Weekman; it would appear from the Registers, that this 



Prebendary first of all resigned in favor of Richard Branktree, 

 and then in 1406, when Richard Branktree died, was again 

 nominated to the prebend. 



. . . Thomas Kibkebt. 



1476. John Nele; instituted December 29th, 1476, by Bishop Waynflete, on 

 "the death of Master Thomas Kirkeby, late Prebendary." 

 He had been ordained a priest by the same Bishop at 

 Esher, and in 1454 collated to the Rectory of St. Mary 

 of the Valleys, near Winchester, with the Chapel of 

 Wyke annexed to the same. By his will dated April 

 27th, 1486, Bishop Waynflete nominated "Master John 

 Nele " one of his executors. 



1497. Cheistophee Batnbeidge ; he resigned in 1503. 



1503. John Smith. 



1540. John Polt ; previously Prior of Elsing. 



The Church at Allington. 



The chief seat of the family who possessed Allington in the 12th 

 century was at Ewyas, in Herefordshire. Various estates in Wilts 

 belonging to them were held as of the Barony of Ewyas, one 

 of them, Teffont Eicyas, still bearing in its distinctive name the 

 memory of that feudal connexion. Harold, Lord of Ewyas, of 

 whom mention has already been made, founded a Priory at 

 that place, and made it a cell to the Abbey of St. Peter, at 

 Gloucester. He endowed his Priory with sundry possessions, 

 and amongst them with " the Church of Alyngetone." ^ The gift 



•Matilda, or Maud, Peccam, was Abbess from 1313—1338. 



' In an old MS. in the British Museum [Cott. MS. Domit. A. viii.,/o^. 144], 

 we have this entry respecting gifts to the Priory of Ewyas : — " Anno 



Domini 1100, Haraldus Dns. de Ewyas dedit Ecclesiam de 



Alyngetone." 



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