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Collections for a History of West Dean. 



The names of the following- curates of West Dean and East 

 Grimstead are extracted from the parish registers, and from the 

 transcripts in the diocesan registry at Sarum : — 



There was a chantry in this Church, dedicated to the Blessed 

 Virgin, and founded in 1333 by Robert de Borbach. It is still 

 standing, and is now in use, as a mortuary chapel. 



The record" of its endowment, preserved in the episcopal register 

 at Salisbury (Wyvil i., f. 12) is here translated : — ' 



" Deed of Robert de Borbach as to endowment for a chantry in the Church 

 of Deone. 



" Know [all men] present and future that I Robert de Borbach have given, 

 granted, and by this my present deed have confirmed to Sir Edward de Worthy, 

 priest, in perpetual and pure alms, a yearly rent charge of a hundred shillings, 

 which I acquired from the lord [of the manor], Oliver de Ingham, knight, in 

 the village of Estgrymstede in the county of Wiltes, which the same lord Oliver 

 granted to me by his own writing and enfeoffed me of it. The underwritten 

 quittances and particulars of which rent chS,rge are payable and ought to be paid 



• This is the well-known author of the history of Selborne, who was Curate for a short time to 

 his relative— the Rev, Edmund Yalden. Corn in 1720, he was thirty-five at the date above given, 

 in which year his signature occurs three times in the registers. 



♦ Rector of S. Peter's, Marlborough. Afterwards of Rushall, Wilts. Chancellor of St. David'a. 

 Succeeded his father as second baronet, 1843, 



t Vicar of Monmonth, 1849. 



5 Vicar of Dormington, Hereford, 1844 



Rector of Bepton Sussex, 1874. 



11 Rector of Swarraton, Hants, 1875. 



* For assistance in decyphering the contracted Latin of the original I am in- 

 debted to the kindness of H. J. E. Swayne, Esq. 



