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the lordships and manors of Mark, Modesley, Wedmore and 

 More, and the Hundred of Brymspton, and the rectory of Mark 

 and More, the prebend and cha^oel of Byddysham, with the 

 advowson and privileges of the vicarage of Mark and More, with 

 all messuages, lands, mills, fisheries, woods, courts and free 

 warren, and all emoluments whatsoever. This is underwritten, 

 in English, provided that it apply only to the deanery and be 

 not prejudicial to the Chapter or its possessions.* A few months 

 later the redistribution began. On the 9th July, the King, in 

 memory of the worthy fame of his dearest father, gave and 

 granted for his faithful services, to " our cousin" Edward, Earl 

 of Hertford and Duke of Somerset, all the Deanery of Wells, and 

 the dignity of Dean, and all our manors of Mark, Modesley, 

 Wedmore and More, and the Hundred of Bempston, with all 

 privileges, &c., belonging, to be held in ca^pite at the 40tli part of 

 a Knight's fee.t The next day, 10th July, by patent, with much 

 other property in other counties, the Duke received all that 

 the dignity of Archdeacon of Wells, with all the manors, 

 messuages and emoluments ; also the Deanery and the dignity of 

 Dean, with the lordships and manors of Mark, Modesley, 

 Wedmore and More, &c., formerly belonging to the Deanery. J 

 Again, on the 4th June, 1550, he had another grant of 

 property, chiefly belonging to Glastonbury, in which, with 

 a determination to have it confirmed, or perhaps from some 

 verbal omissions in the former grant, were included the manor 

 of Wedmore and the Hundred of Bempston and AYedmore, 

 with all the forests, parks, and liberties belonging. § By the 

 attainder of the Duke and his execution in 1551, this pro- 

 perty came again to the Crown, when Wedmore with other 



* Deeds of Purchase and Exchange, Box F., No. 3. 



t Deeds of Purchase and Exchange, Box F., No. 42b. 



X Patent Rolls, EoU 805, part vii., mem. 44. 



§ Patent Rolls, 4 Edward VI., part viii., mem. 39. 



