78 Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Farleigh. 



Now the first Humphrey Bohun married ^Matilda, sole daughter 

 of Edward of Salisbury, and she, on her father's death, shared his 

 estates with her only brother. Thereafter the manors of Trowbridge 

 and Staverton, as well as that of Farley, pass through her to the 

 priory. It is only, therefore, reasonable to conjecture that they all 

 passed from Brictric to Edward of Salisbury, and so to our 

 Priory. 



There has been a difference of opinion as to whether it was the 

 second or the third Humphrey Bohun who founded our Priory, but 

 my judgment is that the first commenced and the second concluded 

 the foundation. 



The charter is styled " Carta Humfridi de Bohun, Regis Dapi- 

 feri, de fundatione Prioratus de Farleighe." This is evidently the 

 third Humphry Bohun, for the second was never " Regis Dapifer,''^ 

 but the charter goes on, sometimes absolutely to give and sometimes 

 only to confirm, the gift of properties, and in the case of our parish 

 the gift is only confirmed ; confirmed therefore, I conclude, as the 

 previous gift of the father, Humphrey the second. 



There is something very characteristic of the times in this charter, 

 a terseness, brevity and precision, appropriate to the military life of 

 the grantor, and in marked contrast to our manorial deeds of later 

 date and quieter times. 



Humphrey and his wife (Margaret, daughter of Milo of Gloucester, 

 Earl of Hereford), with consent of their barons and men, give, 

 concede, and confirm (donamus et concedimus et confirmamus) to 

 God and the Holy Mary Magdalen and the monks at Monkton 

 Farleigh, certain properties, for the salvation of their souls and of 

 the souls of those belonging to them. Then follows a concise enu- 

 meration, as thus in the case of our parish : — " The whole manor of 

 Farley with the Park and every other thing belonging to the same 

 village [villam], save one hide of land which William de Tile 

 holds." (This hide, by the way, was conveyed in a subsequent 

 charter.) 



Contrast this with the conveyance of messuages, hereditaments, 

 tenements, and so on, which I shall have to refer to later on, as 

 made some four hundred years afterwards^ and we shall have to 



