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Batten I was enabled to coi^y out what appeared to be of most 

 value, and I now place it before the members of the Club. If it 

 shall seem to be of little interest to any one but myself, I can 

 only say such discoveries very largely contribute to accurate 

 parochial history, and without such history our county histories 

 would be worthless, and our national history be confined to public 

 events alone. 



By means of this record I have been able to identify the ancient 

 names of the woods, rivers, fields, and tenants, and to ascertain 

 what changes have taken place in three centuries and a half, 

 and therefore have found no little help in working out a complete 

 history of the parish, which, if life be spared, I hope in time to 

 accomplish. 



I need not however trouble the members by reading over the 

 names, but append the extracts to this paper, as they may render 

 our proceedings more valuable. I need hardly say that the 

 original is in Latin, and I understand that another volume of this 

 interesting book is in the British Museum. 



Another document of more ancient date, for which I am 

 indebted to the kindness of a friend, contains the ancient 

 boundaries of Wrington parish. This is taken from the Bath 

 and Glastonbury Register, p. 341, now in the library of the 

 Marquis of Bath, at Longleat. 



Wrington. 



From the " Rental of Glastonbury Abbey,'" now in the Library of the 

 Earl of Aylesbury, at Tottenham Rouse, and called " Abbot Beer's 

 Terrier," A.D. 1514, p. 197. 



Wrington Church is dedicated to All Saints, an account of the Church 

 HotLse, once stinnding at the east entrance, near the Lych Gate, is given 

 at p. 234. Also an account of the Mill, which .stood outside the Kectory 

 garden where the stream of water is carried under the road. The mill 

 power was in the Rectory garden, and is now used as a rubbish pit 

 (see p. 234). 

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