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In C.C.C.C. Dated 921 will be found a grant by King Athel- 
stan of lands at Pristun and Cold Ashton to the Bath Monastery, 
“Deo omnipotenti, et Sancto Petro Apostolo, ac venerabili familiz 
quz sita est in low celebri ubi ruricole appellativa relatione 
nuncupantur et Badum, . . . decem mansas in qui 
dicitur Prisctun, et quinque in alio loco qui dicitur Aisctun 
His testibus conventientibus quorum _ inferius 
nomina recitantur. Anno dominice in carnationis decccxxxi 
acta est heec preefata libertas. yo Apelstan rex totius Brittan- 
niz prefatam donationem cum sigillo sancte crucis confirmavi.” 
Then follows in Anglo-Saxon the boundaries, under ‘‘ Divisiones 
Aesctona ” will be found several names that are in existance now. 
The next record CCCC is the restoration by King Edwy of the 
Convent lands at Olveston and Cold Ashton, previously granted 
by Athelstan and taken from it unjustly, there is no date to this, 
but it must have been from 955 to 958, the years Edwy reigned. 
‘Quo circo ego Eadwig basileus, Albioni Monarchis viris ecclesi- 
astesis pre ceteris operam impendere curabo, quatinis meritis et 
precibus sanctorum corum numero merier congungi in ccelis. 
Unde et mansas v xt Allvestone et alias v mansas xt Alsetune 
quas patruelis meus Atpelstanus rex obtulerat ecclesiz beati Petri 
apostolorum principis, que sita est Bathonis civitate, &.” In 
C.C.C.C. is a confirmation by King William of the Grant by King 
Edward to the Convent of Bath of 5 hides each at Olveston and Cold 
Ashton, with the concession that 2 hides at either place should be 
exempt from payment. In “an analysis of the Domesday survey 
of Gloucestershire” by the Rev. C. 8. Taylor, published by the 
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archeological Society, will be found 
very interesting matter relating to the whole ofthat county. In 
Domesday survey, under the head of Terra Eccle ’de Bade, it is 
mentioned that this church holds Esctone in Pulcrecerce (Puckle- 
church) Hundred. There are 5 hides, of which 2 are quit from geld 
by Grant of Kings Edward and William, but three are taxed. In 
Demean is one plow tillage and 2 Villium and 3 borders and 1} 
