202 The History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



was afterwards confirmed by Robert of Ewyas, the son of the 

 founder, and approved by Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 and John, Bishop of Salisbury, in the time of Hamelin, Abbot of 

 Gloucester.^ 



In the Taxatio Ecclesiastical we have the "portion of the Prior 

 of Ewyas " (Porcio Prioris de Ewyas in Albecaning), reckoned as 

 worth £2. In the Inquisitiones Nonarum' we have a similar 

 valuation given. In the former Record we have registered, as 

 belonging to the same Priory, small portions of land in Teffont 

 Ewyas and Lydiard Tregoz, and the Church of Hilmarton. All 

 these were given by members of the same family, and will be found 

 registered in Domesday under the lands of Alured of Marlborough, 

 whose property they inherited. 



The revenues of the Priory becoming in course of years decreased, 

 and too slender to maintain it, in the year 1358, by decree of 

 Thomas Fastolf, Bishop of St. David's, who was then the Ordinary, 

 it was annexed to the great Abbey of St. Peter's, Gloucester. In 

 the deed of annexation, Roger La Warre and Peter de Grandison, 

 are spoken of as benefactors, and descendants of the original 

 founder. The pedigree printed a few pages back will explain how 

 they were connected with him. Amongst the revenues of the 

 Abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester, is reckoned the sum of £2 13s. 4d. 

 issuing from AH Cannings, being in truth the portion arising from 

 " the Church of AUington " that formerly belonged to the Prior of 

 Ewyas. 



At the suppression of Monasteries in the 16th century, several 

 of the estates belonging to the Abbey of St. Peter's, Gloucester, 

 were appropriated to the endowment of the new Bishopric of 

 Gloucester. The letters patent constituting the said Bishopric, 

 dated September 3rd, 1541, enumerate amongst its revenues the 

 same sum of £2 138. 4d. " out of All Cannings." 



Though all vestiges of the building have disappeared, persons 

 are yet living who remember hearing of the Church, and who 



1 New Monast. i., 546. ^ Tax. Eccles., p. 189. 

 ' Inquis. Non., p. 157. 



