
By Rev. C. 8. Ruddle. 273 
Chapter of Winchester. In the letters patent, beautifully illumi- 
nated, which are preserved at Winchester, it is stated, “We also 
grant to the said Dean and Chapter . . . the Rectories and 
Churches of Duryngton, Wanborough, Aldebourne and Alton in 
Wiltshire . . . formerly belonging to the Prior and Convent 
of the Monastery of Ambresburie ”—“also: sundry Manors, lands 
&c. in the said parish of Duryngton.” The mention of manors was 
surplusage. There was a reservation of 6s. 8d. annually to the 
farmer of the Rectory of Duryngton for his living. 
In the Valores of the Cathedral estates is this entry :— 
“Rectoria de Durington in Com. Wiltes: valet in —— Firma Rectorie 
ibidem cum omnibus oblationibus emolumentis una cum omnibus tenementis 
et aliis proficeis cum suis pertinentiis eidem Rectorie pertinentibus, dimissis 
Johanni Bolton et Johanni Huddesfield et ass. suis per indenturam datam 
12 Mar. anno R. Henr. VIII. 12™° ad Term. 41 annorum, reddendo inde xx'.” 
Then follow deductions, 6s. 8d. for the lessees as stated above ; and 
10s. to the chaplain curate serving the Parish Church of Durrington 
“for his living.” Probably when the lease was granted one of the 
Amesbury chaplains went out to serve Durrington: but after the 
suppression the fee of 10s. became an absurdity. 
The lease would expire early in Elizabeth’s reign: and some 
time in that reign Philip Poore became the lessee of the Dean and. 
Chapter. From him it passed to Mr. Waldorne, of “ Alborne,” 
(probably Aldbourne,) who held it in 1608. The terrier of that 
year does not mention the curate’s stipend; the lessee had all the 
tithe: four acres of meadow land, one hundred and twenty acres 
of arable, and pasture for three hundred sheep. In 1650, according 
to the Parliamentary inquisition, the impropriation was worth 
£220, the old rent £20, and of course there would be a septennial 
fine: and the lessee was to provide for the cure, and pay the curate 
£20 a year, with a sack of wheat and a sack of barley. In this 
account William Kent appears as possessor of the impropriation. 
This was William Kent, of Boscombe. He had been in arms for 
the King in the early part of the war, and in 1643 had ridden in 
Sir Geo. Vaughan’s troop. He had also served in what were 
ealled the Illegal Assizes in 1644. But in 1645 he compounded 
