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de Somerford Magna” is put down as worth £6 13s. 4d., and the 
tenth as 15s. 4d., while the “Capella de parva Somerford” is valued 
at £10, and its tenth at £1. In the “ Nonarum Inquisitiones,” 14th 
year of Edward III, the value of the benefice is again given as 
£6 13s.4d. Weare also told that belonging to the rectory there is 
_ a@ messuage with outhouses and a garden, half a virgate of land 
and two acres of pasture, worth 13s. 4d. a year; the tenths of hay 
being worth £1, and the other dues 25s. The parishioners value 
the ninth of corn, wool, and sheep, which was being levied by 
Edward III. to meet his expenditures in the Scotch and French 
wars, at only £6 from the last year, on the plea that their corn 
crops had been seriously injured by the weather. Passing on to 
the time of Henry VIIL.,in the “Valor Ecclesiasticus,” Henry Russell, 
the Rector, affirms that the living is worth in the gross from land 
and tithes, £13 5s. 8d., and after payment of 14s. 2d. to the Arch- 
deacon, £12 13s. 5d. clear. At the same time we learn that the 
Priory of St. Mary at Kynton received 42s. 4d. clear out of the 
parish. The list of Rectors dates from 1323, when the patron, 
John Maltravers, presents Adam de Norton. The next presentation, 
in 1524, is made by the Prioress of Kynton. After that, however, 
for more than two hundred years, the patronage was in the hands 
of the Maltravers, passing from them apparently with the manor 
to John Yewe, who presents in 1605 and then in 1637 to Robert 
Jason. In 1676, after a law suit, Robert Jason establishes his 
right, which had been questioned by Edmund Bruning. When the 
Hawkins’ trustees sold the manor property Edmund Wayte pur- 
chased the advowson. The succeeding incumbents obtained their 
preferment by purchase until in 1704 Richard Hutchins, Fellow of 
Exeter College, bought the advowson and made it over by deed of 
gift to the college, which is still the patron. The property of the 
rectory is described very completely in three terriers, which are 
in the Registry at Salisbury. The first of these is headed :— 
“Terrier and true report of the glebe land that belongeth unto the Rectory 
of Somerford Magna taken by the Churchwardens and Sidesmen of the said 
parish the fourth of October, an. dom., 1608,” 
and signed “Richard Pitman, Thomas Winkworth.” It begins :— 
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