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because it was glebe of a parochial Rector : but because it belonged 

 to the Rector and brethren of the Monastery : and to distinguish it 

 fi-om the Abbess of Romsey^s Tinhead, above-mentioned. A house 

 and seventeen acres of land in Tynhide was held by the Priory, of 

 the Crown in chief by service of a hatchet ; and was called " Hache- 

 davey's/' The brethren paid to the Abbess, as lady of the manor, 

 £1 '6s. per annum for their " Tynhide Rector's." As both Romsey 

 Tynhide and Edington Tynhide were, at the Dissolution, granted 

 to one and the same person, Sir Thomas Seymour, and have since 

 generally formed one estate, the distinction between " Tynhide 

 Romsey's " and " Tynhide Rectoi-'s " is lost. 



Some part of Tynhide belonged in later times to JefFery Whitaker, 

 of a Westbury family, originally of Lincolnshire (Hoare''s Westbury, 

 42). Tynhide Court, a fine old grange with grand ecclesiastical 

 barn, is now destroyed. It was some time the residence of the 

 Carpenter family (see Wilts Vis., 1623). 



136B. HiGHwoRTH. From Edingdon Cartulary (p. 147) it ap- 

 pears that Laurence de Coleshill grants (for the Monastery) to John 

 le Northerne, Vicar of Buckland, in the same county, and Robert 

 Gundewyne, a brother of Edington Priory, certain lands and tene- 

 ments in Highworth. These in temp. Edw. II., had belonged to 

 Matthew Picot ; in 1338 to one Adam the Fisherman (" Pecheur "), 

 of La Bataillej then to Richard of Hanningdon, and then to the 

 said Laurence de Coleshill. The deed is dated London, and is wit- 

 nessed by Sir Thomas de Hungerford, and others. The name of 

 " Pechcur " indicates that this may have been at a place called 

 Freshdene (now Fresdon) which in the minister's accounts of Eding- 

 ton property is described as consisting of a " Firma barcarum,'" a 

 ferry. 



Some lands at Esthrop, near Highworth, were given to the Priory 

 by Benedicta Mandeville (see " Bratton,'' below) . The Abbess of 

 Godstow paid two shillings a year to Edingdon Monastery for some 

 land at Esthrop (Val. Eccl., II., 194). At Sevenhampton the 

 name of " Friar's Mills " probably refers to the house of Edingdon 

 (I P.M.). 



Coleshill, Co. Berks. This was the largest estate belonging to 



