By the Rev. G. S. Master. 



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did not exceed twelve marks, certified by Bishop Courtney, " De 

 canatus de Somborne — ecclesia de Westdene alias Weston." 



The only mention of its union with the Church of S. Mary to 

 be found at Winchester consists of two or three lines scribbled on 

 the back of a leaf in one of the registers of the Cathedral Priory, 

 and the handwriting is about 1470 — the date of the previous year 

 occurring on the front of the folio, to a document there entered, 

 while the next folio is dated 1475. The entry is as follows : — 



" Ita tamen quod Rector dictae parochiae Beats Manse de Westdene solvet 

 nobis et successoribus nostris ratione indempnitatis prsedictse ecclesiBe Omnium 

 Sanctorum de Westdene annuatim in festa pascbte viii**. alioqui nee' alio modo 

 nostrum consensum sive assensum praebemus in hac parte." 



This is the indemnity payable to the Cathedral Chapter. In the 

 compotus of Dr. Edmund Steward, Vicar General of Bishop 

 Gardiner, of all pensions payable to the Bishop and received by him 

 from the feast of Christmas, 1536, to the same day, 1537, occurs, 

 inter alia, " In Decanatus Somborne — De ecclesia de Deane Omnium 

 Sanctorum, xx<i-" When the payment was discontinued 1 know 

 not. None has been made within human memory. 



It may be convenient to append here a list of institutions to the 

 parish Church of West Dean All Saints, in the diocese of Winchester, 

 extracted from the episcopal registers at Winchester : — ^ 



* For this list, and some foregoing items of information, I am indebted to the 

 courtesy of Mr. Francis Joseph Baigent, of Winchester. 



