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lands were not held by Knights service. Then follows another 
Writ from the King to the Sheriff not to distrain the Prior, &. 
In A.D. 1357 there was a Writ by the King to acquit the Prior 
_ from payment in aid of making the King’s son a Knight if the 
lands are held free. 
There is a Conveyance, A.D. 1345, by John, Prior, &c., to Master 
Stephen Maler and William Partchay, of the custody of lands, &c., 
of Simon Torney, viz., moiety of the Manor of Tatwyk which said 
Simon held of the Priory by Knights service and also the wardship. 
of John, son and heir of the same Simon within age. 
The earliest record of this family—Torney, Turnay, Tornay,. 
&c.—in connection with this parish is 18 years earlier than this. 
conveyance, viz., in a Lay Subsidy A.D. 1327, wherein Simon is 
mentioned. Other members of the family are referred to in 
various documents up to A.D. 1467. 
When the members of this Club visited Torner’s Court last year: 
—1895—they assembled in a building locally called the Chapel,. 
this building is about 78 feet long by 28 feet wide, with a good 
roof, the general consensus of opinion being that it was built for 
a barn, probably in the 14th century. In the Chartularies there. 
is an Agreement, A.D. 1302, that Elias de Sancto Albano should 
enfeoff the Prior, &c., of his moiety of the Manor of Tatwick in 
Counties Gloucester and Somerset for two chantries. One monk 
to celebrate at the altar of S. Martin’s, and one a secular Priest, 
to celebrate in the Parish Church of Cold Ashton in the Diocese 
of Worcester, in the Chapel of Tatwick within the Parish aforesaid 
(this Parish was in the Diocese of Worcester up till about A.D. 
1540). This is the first record of this Chapel that I have met. 
with, the last being in A.D. 1629. 
There are three Manors in this Parish, viz., Cold Ashton, 
Hameswell and Torner’s Court, these continued to be held by the 
Abbey of Bath till the dissolution of Monasteries by King Henry 
VIII. Warner in his History of Bath says, that the King in 1535 
appointed Commissioners to enquire into the value of Monasteries, 
