The Priory of Mar^igny a nd its connexion 'with Wiltshire. 101 



the nuns, which the King will not tolerate in any way, as indeed he ought 

 not to do ; he therefore orders the escheator to take into the King's hands 

 without delay the aforesaid manors and all the lands that he shall ascertain 

 to have been thus conferred in frankalmoin upon the nuns and to have been 

 alienated by the nuns and priors to the prior of Farleye or to any others in 

 fee, and to cause them to be kept safely until the King shall otherwise ordain. 



It is presumably from this entiy that Cauon Jackson adopted 

 the definite statement that both Allington and Slaughterford were 

 the gift to Marcigny of King Stephen. As to the sale, if such had 

 been intended, the King's intervention was effective. The prior 

 of Farleigh continued to hold these estates in farm, and not m fee. 

 An incidental result of this difference of tenure was that, in case 

 of war with Trance, the amount of the farm was payable into the 

 King's exchequer. 



That Marcigny remained a factor of importance in the Cluniac 

 system appears by the following entries in the Patent Eoll :— 



1328, Aug. 14. Gerard, prior of Martigny, going beyond seas, has letters 

 nominating Master Eeginald de Duddelyng and Master Peter de Vauiellis 

 his attorneys for four years. 



1328, Aug. 17. Protection and safe-conduct until the feast of the 

 Purification, for Gerard, prior of Martigny, deputed by the abbot of Cluny 

 to visit the priories and places subject to him in England. 



In the index to the volume of the Calendar in which these entries 

 occur, the priory named is not identified. 



The remaining entries on the Patent Eolls, so far as these rolls 

 have been at present calendared, relating to Marcigny, are as 

 follows : — 



1385, Oct. 10. Presentation of Richard Colyn, chaplain, to the vicarage 

 of Slaghterford, in the diocese of Salisbury, in the King's gift by reason of 

 the temporalities of the alien priory of Marcigny (Marciniaco) being in his 

 hands on account of the war with France. 



Here we get an instance of the gain to the King of defeating the 

 sale to the prior in Farleigh in fee of the Marcigny endowments. 

 The like appears from the entries which follow. We further learn 

 from them that the farm, or rent, paid to Marcigny for all their 

 possessions, was £38 yearly. Lastly we discover how this rent 

 was, by the munificence of King Edward IV, applied .■— 



1400, April 6. Whereas from a yearly farm of 57 marks due to the alien 

 house of nuns of Marceneye and payable to Edward III on account of the 



