100 The Priory of Marcigny and its connexion with Wiltshire. 



The like to the same concerning the lands that the said prior holds at fee- 

 ferm of the prior and convent of Martignj' in Wellenby, Navenby and 

 Brotenby, which they had of the gift of the King's progenitors, and which 

 were taken into the King's hands by the sheriff of Lincoln, then the King's 

 escheator, by reason of the alienation thereof. 



" Marbigny " in these entries is correctly identified in the ac- 

 companying index as " Marcigny, France, Saone-et-Loire." " Ahn- 

 ton," however, appears there as " Ahnton Broome, parish of 

 Swindon," with a cross reference, " Brome. Sec Ahnton Broome." 



In the same vohxme is an undated entry, between March 21 

 and April 3, 1278, from wliich it would seem that litigation was 

 still proceeding between the prior of Farleigh and his tenants of 

 Allington : — 



William, prior of Farnleye, puts in his place William Sellinian and John 

 le Frye in a suit before the King, between him and Roger atte Broke, Henry 

 le Conestable, John le Kyng, William Leveston, Walter de Whitewell, 

 William Uppewell, and Beatrice Harding, men of the prior's manor of 

 Alinton, wliich is of the ancient demesne of the crown, in a plea that the 

 prior exacts from them other customs and other services than he ought to 

 do. 



In the Patent Eoll Calendar a fresh spelling occurs : — 



1281, Sept. 6. Letters for the prior of Martigny (de Marthiniaco) nom- 

 inating Master John de Belua as his attorney for two years. 



The place is not identified in the index. 



Somewhat later, it would appear, a further transaction was 

 contemplated, or accomplished, between the nuns and tlie prior of 

 Farleigh, and the " farm " converted into ownership in fee. The 

 Latin text of the letters close by which the King interfered with 

 tlie arrangement has found its way, viA Prynne, into the " Monas- 

 ticon." They are rendered as follows, in the Close Eoll Calendar : — 



1298, Oct. 26. To Walter de Gloucestria, escheator beyond Trent. 

 Whereas the King understands for certain that the manors of Slaghteneford, 

 Alynton, Brome, Welleby and Navenby and certain other lands that Stephen 

 and other progenitors of the King, formerly Kings of England, granted by their 

 charter to the nuns of Marcigny in frankalmoin, in order to celebrate divine 

 service (cidtn) there for ever, have been alienated in fee by certain priors 

 and nuns of Marcigny into the hands of the prior of Farleye and of divers 

 other men without licence of the King and of his progenitors, to the defraud- 

 of the alms aforesaid, to the King's prejudice and against the will of him 

 and of his progenitors and against the form of the feoffment thereof made to 



