272 Edingdon Monastery. 



Bulkington; a tything of Keevil. The monastery had here a 

 manor, a farm, customary rents and the rectorial tithe. The donor 

 or vendor is unknown; but it was probably Thomas Bulkington, 

 who is mentioned as having had an obit at Edington, as a benefactor. 

 Out of the rents here the monastery paid, to the choristers of Sarum 

 9*. Ad. a year : to the Earl of Arundel £1 Is. 6d. : to Sir Walter 

 Hungerford, 1*. Zd. : and to the heirs of John Buller, 5*. (Val.Eccl.). 



Bulkington is not named in the Index of Edingdon Register, but 

 is in the Val. Eccl. Perhaps in the former it is included under 

 Keevil. From 21 Rich. II. to 33 Hen. VI. the Fitzalans, Earls of 

 Arundel, had a manor here paying 20*. a year to Devizes Castle. 

 The Stourton family were also connected with it, in Henry V. and 

 Edw. IV. In 5 Hen. V. Richard Vere, Earl of Oxford : and in 

 1534, Thomas Barkesdale, were freeholders. In 6 E. III. Henry 

 Thomas held at Bulkington twenty acres for a certain chaplain of 

 some chapel not named (Inq. p. M.). 



1405. 7 Hen. IV. Staple or Market Lavington, Lee, Brat- 

 ton, Westhorpe, and Fifhead. Tenements at these places were 

 given by John Elys, clerk (Inq. a. q. D. p. 355). 



1409. 11 Hen. IV. Sombourne, Hants. When this Church was 

 appropriated to the Priory of Mottesfont, Hants, it was charged with 

 a pension of two marks of silver per annum to the House of Edingdon. 

 The cartulary of Edingdon contains a very long dispute about this, 

 which ended in a writ to the sheriff, W. Cheney, to compel J. 

 Brekenyle, Prior of Mottesfont and Rector of King's Somborne, to 

 pay Thomas Culmer, Rector of Edingdon, twenty-four marks, arrears 

 of the annual payment. 



1423. 2 Hen. VI. Westbury and Bratton. Thirteen tene- 

 ments, obtained from John Frank and others (see H. of Westbury, 

 67). In do., p. 84, is an abstract of many deeds in Edingdon 

 register relating to this. 



1427. 5 Hen. VI. West Bratton and Milbourne. 5th May. 

 By license from the Crown John Frank, clerk (probably Rector of 

 South Newton) (Wilts Institutions, 1425), Thomas Touke, of Horn- 

 ingsham, John Franklin, of Coulston, and John Spendour, of Immer, 

 convey to the Monastery about three hundred and fifty acres, &c., in 



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