By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, P.S.A. 285 



Sir Thomas's first court was held. The original MS. of this, with 

 some leaves wanting, but otherwise in good preservation, belongs to 

 Mr. Moore, of West Coker. Meric i^p-Rice," of Welsh family, was 

 tenant of the manor farm of Edingdon (Edingdon Romsey's) under 

 a lease for forty-five years granted Michaelmas, 1531, by Elizabeth 

 Ryperose, Abbess of Romsey. Her farmer is called her " husband," 

 i.e., " husbandman." 



That the buildings of the Monastery had not been disturbed in 

 1549, appears from a survey (at Longleat) made just after the death 

 of Sir Thomas Seymour: — 



" The site of the late Rectorye with the Isle of Wyght of Edyngdon with the 

 Lord's orchard t wo acres, the convent orchard one acre, and the selerer's [cellar- 

 er's] orchard one acre and one close of pasture. 



" Mem. The late Monasterye or Eectorye of Edyngton is scituate under the 

 playne and not yet defaced : the Hall, with all houses, buyldings, barnes, stables 

 and other houses of offices all covered with tyle : the Frater and the Cloyster 

 covered with ledde. 



"There is a small Fay re kept there yearly upon Eeleken Sunday [" Relic 

 Sunday," 12 July] the profit whereof goith to the Eeve which ys not woi-th 4''. 

 by the yere." 



1549. 3 Ed. VI. Sir Thomas Seymour (created Baron Seymour 

 of Sudeley, 16th February, 1547) was beheaded, under warrant of 

 his brother, the Protector. Edingdon and the rest of his estates^ 

 reverted to the Crown. 



1550. 1 Edw. VI. That part of Edingdon which had been the 



Abbess of Romsey's till the Dissolution, was then sold to a great 



nobleman. Sir William Paulet, Baron St. John and Earl of Wiltshire, 



created this year Marquis of Winchester.^ 



[Rood Ashton], Richard Styleman in Ashton and Lowmede : Heirs of Packer in 

 Semington and Ashton, Gyles Gore in Ashton, John Palmer in do., Henry 

 Brunker for late Loveday's in do., Antony Passheton for lands in Henton and 

 Lyttleton late Gore's. 



"The late Lord Admiral [i-e , Thomas Seymour, Lord Sudeley] was Lord 

 Royal of this Hundred by reason whereof he had all manner of waifs, strays, &c. : 

 within which Hundred the Sheriff shall not meddle to serve any process, but the 

 lord's officer only." 



' Mentioned in the Wilts Visitation of 1623 in the pedigree of Carpenter of 

 Tynhide. 



^ Of this very remarkable man Strype gives the following description : " He is 

 celebrated as one of the greatest temporizers in English history. Lord Treasurei-, 

 President of the Council and Great Master of the Household to Henry VIII. 

 VOL. XX. NO. LX. TJ 



