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license o£ Pope Boniface. Edingdon Monastery was summoned to 

 show by what title it held its impropriate Churches of Coleshill, 

 Edingdon, Steeple Lavington, and Buckland. Thomas de Aylesbury, 

 Prebendary of Urchfont, appeared as Proctor for Edingdon, 12th 

 November : and having given satisfactory explanations was dis- 

 charged (Edingdon Cartulary, p. 27 b.). 



1379 — 1380. Besides the lands, late William Mandeville's, at 

 Bratton, others at Dilton and Bratton, late Walter Daunsey's, 

 were conveyed to the Monastery by John Mandeville, Ralph de 

 Norton, and Margaret, his wife, sister of William Dauntsey. Out 

 of Dilton there was an annual payment of 13*. 4f/. to the Priory of 

 Monkton Farley, near Bath. 



Mode of Electing a New Rector. 



13S2. The following extract from one of the deeds in the Car- 

 tulary describes the course pursued in the election of a new Rector. 

 It also shows the number of the brethren in the house at this time. 

 "The Cor- rector and convent, eighteen in number, present with 

 sorrow to the Bishop of Sarum that John of Aylesbury, late Rector, 

 had gone the way of all flesh on the 25th March last. After de- 

 liberation the majority, consisting of Brothers William Hampton, 

 Adam Schenlegh, Nicolas Clerk, Robert Oflftngton, William Brok- 

 weye, John Westbury, John Ambi'esbury, John Tenhyde, John 

 Stowe, Robert Tame, John Brehulle (Brill : these two last Bucking- 

 hamshire names, perhaps from the other house at Ashridge), John 

 Winchester, Thomas Tame, Peter Edyndon, and William Hamme, 

 have nominated three brethren, John Buckland, Thomas Odyham, 

 and Henry Lavington : and request the Diocesan to chuse one of the 

 three. Dated in the Chapter House of Edyndon, 1st April, 1382." 

 Odyham was chosen and immediately instituted : being at the same 

 time required to deliver in a statement of the Churches impropriated 

 to the Monastery. 



1390. CoTERiDGE (now Cuttridge, near Westbury) . Here cer- 

 tain lands, formerly granted in fee farm by the Abbess of Romsey 

 to Walter de Quercu {i.e., Cheney) and afterwards sold by Joha 



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