242 Edingdon Monastery. 



how much the gift exactly comprised. The parish includes Edington 

 proper and the tithings of Tynhide [vulgb Tinhead), Baynton, and 

 West Coulston. The King^s gift probably carried almost the whole : 

 because in the Domesday Survey we find that, with the exception 

 of one small estate then held by one Hervey, of Wilton, under the 

 Crown, two-thirds of the rest of Edingdon stood in the Abbesses own 

 name, and the remaining one-third in the names of military men 

 who held under her. Some one now resident in that district, familiar 

 with local names, may perhaps be able to identify the extent of 

 Edgar's gift, from the " boundary marks of Edyndon," as specified 

 in the King's charter : — 



" From jVIilbourne springs to the Ford : to Lechmere : to Cram-mere : to 

 Worseles-down : along Milbourne to Eodenditcli : to Rendburne : to Herway : 

 to Moderan-cumbe : to Inman-dene [or dune] : to Rede-ston : to Bedelus-birge : 

 to Ageles-ham : to Lustborn : to Hillyng-estrowe : to Hize-don : to Ruzebury : 

 to Pudetan-stone : and so back to Milbourn springs." 



After the notice in the Domesday Survey, A.D. 1085, little or 

 nothing is met with, until the Nonarum Inquisitio, A.D. 1341, 

 In that return a principal land-owner under Romsey Abbey is a 

 " John de Edyngdon " : and the abbess is called " Rector." 

 The ancient ecclesiastical history of the place is three-fold. 



1. A Rectory Prebend. 



2. A Collegiate Church. 



3. A Monastery. 



1. — Edingdon, A Rectory Prebend of Romsey Abbey. 



Tor centuries the Abbess of Romsey had been patroness of the 

 living, a Rectory : but the Rector, instead of being a resident 

 parochial minister, was a Canon or " Prebendary of Edingdon," in 

 the Church of Romsey, who left all local duties to be discharged by 

 a vicar. In 1 338 the abbess nominated to the prebendal rectory for 

 the last time : as, a few years afterwards, a great change in the 

 Church affairs of Edingdon took place, through the interest of an 

 eminent native of the place, William of Edingdon, appointed 

 Bishop of Winchester in 1345 (19 Ed. III.). 



That he was born, about A.D. 1300, of a family who lived here 



