278 Edingdon Monastery. 



what time Dr. Trigonion^ and Dr. Lee did visit Abbeys, the said 

 John Maundrell was brought before Dr. Trigonion at an Abbey- 

 called Edington within the county of Wilts, where he was accused 

 that he had spoken against the holy water and holy bread, and such 

 like ceremonies : and for the same did wear a white sheet bearing 

 a candle in his hand about the market in the Town of Devizes. In 

 the days of Queen Mary he went into Gloucestershire and about 

 Kings wood, but coming back to the Vyes to a friend of his named 

 Antony Clee had talk with him of returning to his own house. On 

 the Sunday following they went to Keevil Churchy where Maundrell 

 Spicer and Coberley seeing the people in the procession to worship 

 the idol there, advertised them to leave the same, speaking to one 

 Robert Barksdale head-man of the parish, but he took no regard to 

 their words. When the Vicar came into the pulpit Maundrell called 

 out ' that was the DeviFs pinfold.'' He was put into the stocks, 

 and taken to Sarum next day before Bishop Capon, W. Geffrey 

 being chancellor of the Diocese. After examination they were 

 condemned by the chancellor and burnt 24th March i556, at a 

 place between Salisbury and Wilton where two posts were set." ^ 



The Dissolution. 

 1534. 26 Hen. VIII. John Ryve was Rector of the Monas- 

 tery when it was seized by the Crown, by whom it was retained 

 seven years. A valuation was taken. The spiritualities amounted 

 to £128 35. ^d. a year, of the money of the day, consisting of seven 

 impropriate rectories, viz., Edyngdon, Keevil, Steeple Lavington, 

 and North Bradley, in Wilts : Coleshill and Buckland in Berks, 

 and Newton Valence in Hampshire. The temporalities, consisting 

 of the lands and manors that have been mentioned (together with 

 some small things omitted) amounted to £393 8s. 11^. a year. 

 Wheat, according to the return, was then 5*. M. a quarter.^ 



1 Meaning probably Dr. Tregonwell, employed by Hen. VIII. on various com- 

 missions. See Strype, index. 



^ There used to be a gallows, called in Latin deeds the " Furcse de Bemerton." 

 , * In other valuations taken at the Dissolution, a few years only after this, 

 wheat is put at very nearly the same price as at Allington, near Chippenham, 5*. 

 a quarter in 1537. It was at 55, at Monkton Farley so far back as 1294. 



