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?tlje f viorg af P^arcipg aiii its connexion 



St. Hugh of Cluny (A.D. 1024—1109), a Burgundian of good 

 family, founded a priory upon his patrimony, at Marcigny, in the 

 diocese of Autun, in the modern department of Saone et Loire. 



The compilers of Gallia Christiana were desirous of inserting 

 an ample account of this priory in their work, but had not been 

 furnished with the necessary documents at the time of going to 

 press (vol. iv., p. 486). In the Bibliotheca Choniaccnsis (Paris, 

 A.D. 1614), and the appendix to the book, there are some slight 

 materials for its history. From these sources it can be gathered 

 that it was a double house, that is to say for both men and women, 

 with, apparently, a prior and a prioress, that by the founder's 

 direction, maidens were not to be admitted until they were grown 

 up {/emince provectiores), and so on. 



Its interest for us consists in the fact that it had certain English 

 endowments, in the counties of Lincoln and Wilts. 



In his account of Chippenham, in his notes about the priory of 

 Monkton Farley, and in his paper upon Swindon and the Neigh- 

 bourhood, contributed to successive volumes of this Magazine, the 

 late Canon Jackson had occasion to mention all three of the 

 Marcigny manors in Wiltshire, as follows : — 



" AUington. 

 " This was given by King Stephen to the alien Nunnery of Martigny, in 

 the upper valley of the Ehone .... (vol. III., p. 36). 



" The Monks of Farley had lately become possessed of the manors of 

 Allington and Slaughterford, near Chippenham. Those estates had been 

 originally given by King Stephen to the foreign Abbey of Martigny in the 

 valley of the Ehone, above the LHke of Geneva . . . . (vol. IV., p. 274). 



" Broome Farm itself was anciently the property of the Alien Priory of 

 Martigny in the upper valley of the Rhone .... " (vol.VII., p. 123). 



