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seems to have made, as the times were, a pretty saving bargain 
with these cowled gentlemen, for he stipulated and obtained in 
lieu of his plough land, these valuable considerations :—“ First, 
the prayers of the good monks for the welfare of King Henry son 
of John his Lord—and secondly, that all his predecessors and 
successors, he and they, shall be partakers of all the benefits and 
alms which had been made or should be made from the days of 
the Apostles to the end of time ;” and on these conditions ‘“ he 
willed the said plough land should be free of all secular service 
whatsoever.” Sir Richard Percival must have been a very Jew to 
demand all the valuable requisitions he specifies for the paltry 
consideration of one plough land and that in Budicombe. John 
de Percival, Sir Richard’s grandson, very generously (for there 
was no need, as Sir Richard had included him in the bargain with 
them) bestowed on the said Abbot and Convent “one yard land 
on the north side of the plough land given by Sir Richard,” to be 
parker of their works of supererogation.” This Deed bears date 
at Stowell, and was witnessed by Robert and Hugh brothers of 
said John de Percival, Robert de Chew, Edward de Bosco, Roger, 
John, and Asceline his sons, Master Thomas de Kene and others. 
In 1272, John, great-grandson of Peter le Sore, held this Manor 
of the Percivals by the sevice of half a Knight’s Fee. The 
profits of the Manor were estimated at this period at two 
shillings.” 
“This Manor of the Percivals within the parish of Butcombe 
continued in the male line of that family till the time of King 
William the Third, when it devolved to Anne the sole daughter 
and heiress of Thomas Percival. Anne was twice married, first, 
to Evan Lloyd, of Salop, Esquire ; and after, to Thomas Salis- 
bury, of Flintshire, Esquire. She at different times, in favour 
‘of her husbands, parted with her inheritance in the parish of 
Butcombe.” 
The Hospital of St. John in Redcliffe Putte, Bristol, founded 
by John Farceyne about 1260, became possessed of the Rectory 
