230 Early Annals of Trowbridge. 
appear to y® said Bp of this Diocese and to ye s‘ Vicar of 
Ashton, that he the st Rector could prove y* s4 custom or 
prescription by several witnesses (occupants of y* s4 Grounds) 
for more than Fifty years last past, whereupon the s‘ Vicar 
desisted from any farther claim to the s? Portion of Tythes 
w have since been paid (as formerly they were) to the s# 
Kector of Trowbridge without any denial or contradiction, 
and the st Rent of Fower shillings hath been yearly paid 
and accepted by y* s¢ Vicar of Ashton in lieu of the s! 
Portion of Tythes which of right belongeth to y® s4 Kectors 
of Trowbridge. 
Ro: Hawxtns, Rector of Trowbridge. 
Rogpert WITCHELL 
e ’ } Churchwardens.” 
Epwarp Marryn, 
The following list of Rectors of Trowbridge has been compiled 
for the most part from Sir Thomas Phillips’ edition of the Wilts 
Institutions. In one or two instances omissions have been supplied 
from other sources. 

A.D. PATRON, INCUMBENT. 
1229 | Exa, Countess of Salisbury.| Perzr. Among the witnesses to 
thé foundation charter of Lacock 
Abbey (1229) is “Peter, Parson 
of Treubrigge.” Bowles’ Lacock 
append. p. x. 
1313 | Tuomas PrantTaGENet, Harl| NicHoLas DE SHEPPEYE ; resigned 
of Lancaster, in right of} 1320. 
his wife Aticy, daughter 
of Henry de Lacy Earl 
of Lincoln, and Margaret 
Longespée in her own 
right Countess of Salis- 
bury. " 
1320 | Jonn Prantacenet or Dz| Ricuarp DE WamBERG ; resigned 
Warren, Earl of Surrey.’| 1321. 
1321 | The same. Henry DE Mortey. 
1322 | The same. WILiiAM DE SwyNnDON. 
1322 | Arice pe Lacy, Countess| WiLLiamM DE APPLEBY. 
of Salisbury and Lincoln. 

1 John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, married Alice Lacy, who was divorced 
from her first husband, Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster; and in right 
of his wife presented to the living of Trowbridge. 

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