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WORMESLEY. 



[By the Rev. Canon H. W. Phillott.] 



Blount in his "Collections" says of Wormesley that it is remarkable chiefly for its 

 Priory of Canons regular of S. Augustine, founded about the beginning of the 

 reign of Henry III., but by whom, .appears not even by their own Register. 

 Anciently, he goes on to say, William de Caple held lands here of the Honour of 

 Weobley. In the time of Henry III. Sir Walter Map was lord of this manor. 

 Nicholas, son of Walter Map, changed his name to Wormesley. In the time of 

 Edward I. Gilbert Talbot gave lands in Wormesley, Eardisley, King's Pyon, 

 Weobley, and Lyonshall, to the Priory of Wormesley. Among the benefactors 

 were Elizabeth de Brugge and Roger Pychard. 



A MS. (Harl, 3586) says that Walter Map gave to the Priory of Wormesley, 

 to God, and to B.V.M., and to the Church of S. Leonard of Pyon, otherwise 

 called S. Leonard of Wormesley, twenty acres of wood and other lands. 



Nicholas (mentioned above) of Wormesley gave to the Priory Church of 

 Wormesley seven " buttes " of his land lying under the meadow of Wormesley 

 between the lands of the Priory on the north, of which one head extends to the 

 land of the Priory, and another to the stream running to the mill of Wormesley, 

 and they shall have these " buttes " * as far as the,^?M»i aqitcc and may make them 

 if they please unam exclusam. 



A later document says — Robert Boter gave to God, and S. Mary and the 

 Church of S. Leonard of Pyon, and to Arthur Edwyn, the first hermit there, for 

 the health of himself, and his wife, and his forefathers, all his land lying between 

 schirnhuste (churn-house ? ) and a stream. 



The Priory was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Edward, Earl of Lincoln, 

 the Lord Admiral, having been granted by Henry VIII. to Edward, Lord 

 Clinton. 



* " Buttes" the ends of .short pieces of land in arable ridges and furrows, Kennett, Par. 

 Aiitif. Gloss. — /^//«>« <t7»<«, the mid-stream of running water, Du Caitge. £xcl»sam, a sluice 

 or weir, Vit Cange. 



