82 Collections for a History of Seagry. 
adjacent monasteries, Malmesbury and Bradenstoke. In the Hun- 
dred Rolls (p. 272) Seagry is named as part of King John’s gift to 
the Abbot of Malmesbury, along with the hundred of Sterkeley and 
Cheggeley and the ancient demesne of Malmesbury. 
There was also an appropriation of some part of the benefice in 
the thirteenth century to Bradenstoke Priory. Dugdale mentions 
(I. 142) that the appropriation was confirmed to that house about 
A.D. 1250 by William (de York) Bishop of Sarum, and afterwards 
by charter of King Henry III. 
In the enquiry made for raising Edward the Third’s subsidy, 
ealled Nonarum Inquisitio, the ninth of corn, hay and wool arising 
out of Seagry is set at 66s. 8d. The profits of the glebe and small 
tithe, at 40s. An annual pension of 20s. is paid to Bradenstoke. 
This return was made at New Sarum before R. Selyman, Robert 
Hungerford, and others, by four parishioners, Henry Paternoster, 
Adam Wootton, Peter Chesman, and Walter le Whyte. 
At the general valuation made by King Henry VIII. the return 
stood thus:—the Prior of Bradenstoke had there, in rents of assize, 
per annum, £8 15s. 3d.; out of which he had to pay an annual 
pension by composition for the maintenance of a vicar, £8; besides 
10s. rent, to Thomas Mompesson, lord of the manor; the Abbot of 
Malmesbury received from Seagry an annual “ pittance ” of 22s. 8d. ; 
the value of the vicarage, as returned by Richard Huntley, then 
vicar, arising from land, tithes of corn and wool, was £8, charged 
with fees to the Archdeacon of Wilts, 6s. 114d. 
A terrier of Seagry vicarage, extracted from Sarum Registry in 
1671 sets forth as follows -— 
“We have no glebe lands belonging to our vicarage, only a dwelling house, 
barn,* and stable: a small orchard and garden contiguous, by estimation three 
parts of an acre of ground : and it is bounded on the east and south by our vicar : 
and on the north and west by Sir Edward Hungerford. This is all we know off. 
Only a pension of nine marks a year and a ground which is kept from our Vicar 
by the owners of the Abbey of Bradenstoke which we presented at your lordship’s 
last visitation.” 
Signed by Christopher Simons, Vicar, William Sparrow, James 
Grinaway, churchwardens. 
* The barn was pulled down some eighty years ago. 
