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Reetors of Trowbridge. 
231 

A.D. 
PATRON. 
347| The King, for the heirs of 
JOHN DE Warren, Earl 
of Surrey. 
1347| Joan de Barr, Countess of 
Surrey.’ 

1362 Witiiam bE Mownracvte, 
Earl of Salisbury.’ 
1376 Joun or Gaunt, Duke of 
Lancaster. 
1377 | The same. 
1383 | The same. 
1406 | Tue Kine, in right of the 
Duchy of Lancaster, now 
merged in the Crown. 
1407 | The same. 
5 
1441 | Feoffees of the Duchy of 
Lancaster. 
1443 | The same. 
INCUMBENT. 

RICHARD DE LA Hype. 
Philip Pypard de Cleve. This 
seems to have been a disputed 
presentation. The former suc- 
ceeded to the living. 
GERARD DE LA More. 
THomas DE ALSTON. 
Prrer DE Barton.’ 
Hvuew Hatt (or) Atre Hat; 
said to have been Prebendary of 
Leckford, in the Diocese of 
Winton, and to have exchanged 
with his predecessor. 
Watrer Hawes. 
WititamM PREGEET. 
THomas Rayty. 
JoHN KaYNELL. 
JoHn Horton. 
Joun Caryrer (=Carter ?) ; re- 
signed 1443. 
Tuomas Janyns (=Jennings?). 

1 Joan de Barr was the daughter of Henry, Earl of Barr, and granddaughter 
of Henry III. by his daughter Eleanor. 
She was the first wife of John de 
Warren, Earl of Surrey. Her husband was divorced from her, and excom- 
municated by the Bishop of Chichester for his conjugal infidelity, in 1317. It 
would appear’ that after his death she claimed, but without success, to exercise’ 
the right, which belonged to him through his second marriage, of presenting to 
the living of Trowbridge. 
2 Among the first acts of Edward III. was the granting 
¢, in reversion, the 
Castle and Manor of Trowbridge to William, Earl of Salisbury, which ‘‘ John 
Earl of Surrey and Joan his wife held for the term of their lives.” Subsequently 
however Alice Lacy, then the wife of Ebulo le Strange, obtained a restitution 
to her first husband’s representatives. 
of the Manor, which had originally belonged to her, and it afterwards descended 
’ The appointment of this Rector is implied in the subsequent entry concerning 
| his suecessor. The Bishop’s registers are wanting from 1366 to 1379, 
