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his children and grandchildren became priests and nuns. He 
died in 1706 at the patriarchal age of 98. The last of the family 
was apparently George Bruning (S.J.) who died in 1802. — 
THE THYNNE Manor. 
_ (e) The family of the Thynnes, as far back as the reign of 
Elizabeth, held some property in the parish, which they describe 
_by the name of their manor of Somerford Magna. Canon Jackson 
considers that this is the property which formerly belonged to the 
nuns of Kingston Priory. By a deed in the New Monasticon the 
“Church of Somerford” was given to the nuns by Richard de 
-Heriet, who appears to have married a Maltravers. The nuns only 
presented once, in 1324. At the time of the “ Valor,” their property 
in the parish was valued at £2 2s. 4d., from which a chief rent of 
1s. 6d. was paid to the Earl of Arundel. Their land was granted 
in 1541 at the Dissolution to Sir Richard Long, of Draycote. In 
“Particulars for Grant to Long,” 33, Hen. VIII, Aug. Office, we 
find “ Prioratus nuper de Kyngton. Firma manerii de Somerford 
cum redditibus custumariorum tenencium ibidem et redditu 18 
gallorum et gallinarum per annum 66s. 4d.” In 1579 it appears 
to have been transferred to Sir John Thynne. In some Chancery 
proceedings in the reign of Elizabeth, John Thynne, as plaintiff, is 
deseribed to be the son and heir of Sir John Thynne, who in his 
lifetime was seized of numerous manors, among them of Somerford 
Magna, and in some other proceedings between Robert Glyde and 
Philip Batten the former claims under a lease contracted for with 
reference to “a messuage and land in Somerford Magna the in- 
h eritance of John Thynne, Esq., and agreed by him to be demised 
to the plaintiff” Sir John Thynne died in 1580. In the “ Inq. 
post mort.” of his grandson, Sir Thomas Thynne, who died in 1639, 
, aken at Cirencester.in 1647, we learn that he was seized of the 
is being held of the King in chief by woth part of a knight's fee 
dis worth per annum clear 40s.” I cannot find that the Thynnes 
