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in Somerset Visitations as “of Hinton.”* Edmund Colthurst 
appears to have sold the Priory to Sir Walter Hungerford, son of 
the Walter Lord Hungerford who was executed in 1578. In 
1599 the Priory was leased to Mrs. Shaa, sister of Sir Edward 
Hungerford who died in 1613, and whose tomb is in the 
smaller chapel of Farleigh Castle. In 1615 the Manors of Hinton 
and Norton were granted to Prince Henry, son of James I., and 
in 1616 to Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I. Some twenty 
years later they passed to Lord Craven, and an interesting survey 
of the two manors by Richard Parsons, which throws much light 
on the disposition of the land in the two parishes, is in the hands 
of Mr. Henry Withers, of Norton.t In 1660 another Sir E. 
Hungerford obtained the manors, and aboui 1684 the Hungerford 
property, including Hinton, was sold to Mr. Henry Baynton, of 
Spey Park. Early in the 18th Century the Baynton estates were 
sold, the site of the Priory and the adjoining lands being pur- 
chased by Walter Robinson, ancestor of the present proprietor of 
Hinton Abbey, the Grange and a considerable portion of the land 
in the parish being acquired by Mr. John Harding, ancestor of 
Mrs. Day, by whose will it passed into my family. My own 
house occupies the site of the ‘‘ Grange” of the Priory, the name 
being still preserved in the ‘‘ Grange Farm,” which immediately 
adjoins it. Such is a short account of the history of the Priory 
and its dissolution. 
I wiil conclude by attempting a short description of the existing 
remains of the Conventual Buildings. The Church has dis- 
appeared, so have the monks’ dwellings and the Prior’s Lodge and 
Cloisters, Theposition of these can only be conjectured by reference 
to other Charterhouses. What remains probably represents the 
* These Colthursts would appear to have been land jobbers of the 
period. Bath Abbey came into their possession, so did the Manor of 
Claverton, which was sold by them to the Hungerfords., 
+ The Grange of Hinton was then leased to the Countess of Rutland, 
widow of Sir E. Hungerford. 
