found at Bremeridge Farm, Westbury, Witts. 133 



The locality of Bremeridge is interesting, having belonged to 

 Philip Marmyon in the reign of Edward I., and afterwards passed 

 to Sir Philip Fitzwaryn and his wife Constance, who transferred it 

 by exchange to the prior and convent of Edington in 1367-8.' 

 Hoare gives three documents, of the years 38, 40, and 41 Edw. III., 

 A.D. 1364 and 1367, relating to Bremeridge, which are of great 

 interest as being contemporary with the coins, and as illustrating 

 the name and ownership of the locality. The payments mentioned 

 are also noteworthy, and possibly, by numismatic sifting, might be 

 found to correspond curiously to the amount of the Bremeridge 

 hoard. 



The chief points to be gathered from these deeds seem to be, that 

 the Rector of the Church at Edington and the convent thereof be- 

 came possessed of the manor, &c., of Highway, in the parish of 

 Bremhill, near Calne, Wilts, in fee-farm, paying ten pounds, that is 

 thirty nobles, yearly to the Bishop of Salisbury as chief lord ^ in 

 right of his Church of the Blessed Mary, of Salisbury, and an oc- 

 casional "relief^' of Qs. Sd., i.e., one noble, upon every avoidance 

 of the said rectory of Edington ; and the annual profits of the said 

 manor, after paying the fee-farm rent to the Bishop, were estimated 

 at 13«. 'id., i.e., two nobles. Thus the whole annual rent of the 

 property, in exchange for which the Rector and Convent of Edington 

 obtained the manor of Bremeridge, amounts exactly to thirty -two 

 nobles.^ The two earlier deeds are in Latin. By the third deed, 

 which is in French, on Thursday next before the Feast of St. 

 Valentine, 41 Ed. III., A.D. 1367, Sir Philip FitzWaryn and his 

 wife Constance, grant to John, Rector of Edington, and to the con- 

 vent thereof, in exchange for the manor of Highway, &c., in the 



1 " Cal. I. P. M.," vol. i., p. 57, vol. ii., p. 277. Also Hoare's " Hist, of Wilts, 

 Westbury," pp. 58 to 62, above cited. Aubrey and Jackson's " Wiltshire Col- 

 lections," 1862. 



■•' The patronage of the Vicarage of BremhiU with Highway and Foxham still 

 belongs to the Bishops of Salisbury. 



' It therefore seems natural to surmise that this hoard may be the amount of 

 rent prepared by the tenant of Bremeridge for the Eector and Convent of Edington 

 between 1384 and 1399. 



