10 Amesbury Church. Reasons for thinking that it 
arrangement. If it does, then I think some other explanation will 
have to be found than to suppose it the principal Church of the 
Priory. 
The documentary evidence, published by Canon Jackson, is not 
complete, but no one, reading it with an unbiassed mind, would 
draw from it any other conclusion than that the Priory Church was 
entirely destroyed. If the present Church had also disappeared, 
the question would never have been raised, and, if a more close 
similarity between the two Churches could be made out than at 
present appears, their identity would not be proved. The docu- 
mentary evidence of destruction would still have to be got over. 
One of the documents, published by Canon Jackson, states that 
a certain quantity of the lead, from the demolished buildings, was 
reserved, to be placed upon the chancel of the Parish Church, and 
he says that this, at first, led him to suppose that there must have 
been two large Churches, but that, as there is no trace or tradition 
of any other large one than the present Parish Church, which is of 
great antiquity, and, as the measurements of the monastic Church 
corresponded very closely (as the documents, he says, show) with 
those of the present Church, it is most likely that, as at Edington, 
one and the same building served both for the monastery and the 
parish, and that this seems to be confirmed by the fact that, in the 
Episcopal Registry at Sarum (as printed in the Wilts Institutions), 
there are no Presentations of a Clerk to Amesbury Church, before 
the dissolution of the monasteries. If this were the true explanation 
of the omission of any such record, it might be expected to be the same 
in the case of Edington, but it is not. It appears, from the Wilts 
Institutions, that the Rector and Convent of Edyndon presented 
William Godwyn! to the cure or charge of the conventual Church 
of Edyndon, after the death of Thomas Elme, in 1450. 
Tt also turns out, on examination, not to be the case that the 
1 Jt appears however, from an entry of the succeeding year, 1451, that 
William Godwyn was not simply a curate or vicar, but the actual rector 
and as such, head of the monastic establishment of Edington. In that year 
William Emyldon was, on the resignation of John Edward, instituted to the 
vicarage of Kevelegh, the patron being William Godewyn, Rector of Edyndon. 
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