By the Rev. 
— Bathon et London vnicuique iporum 
domorum lx* vt ipi specialiter orare 
_dignentur pro anima mea et animabus 
- supradcis. 
Item volo quod tenementum meum 
_apud Marleburgh integre remaneat ad 
Georgium Polton nepotum meum et 
_ ipius heredes de corpore suo procreandos 
et ad proximos heredes meos si ipm 
Georgium heredes huiusmodo non 
habere contingat cum _ condicione 
obligatoria indentandi quod hii 
omnes pro eorum temporibus singu- 
lis annis imperpetuum faciant exequias 
pro me in Ecclia sancti Petri Marle- 
burgh cum xxiiij missas in crastino in 
-eadem. 
.Q' si istud aliquo tempore neclectum 
fuerit aut omissum quod extunc illud 
_tenementum ad execut meos revertatur 
_ presenti legato non obstante Et ipis 
defunctis volo qd revertatur ad Rectores 
qui erunt successive ecclie sancti Petri 
predict vt eorum quilibet pro suo tem- 
pore subeat et fideliter fieri faciat onus 
3 superius expressatum per loci ordinarium 
‘si quis eorum in hoc necgligens fu’it 
compellendus. 
Volo autem quod vbi pro legatis 
relictis viris aliquibus Religiosis aut 
is personis aut locis assignan’im vt 
sup* _certum missarum numerum cele- 
i pro anima mea etc. Si viderint 
xecutores mei et superuisores multo 
_plures missas honeste celebrari posse seu 
C. Soames. ii; 
Henton [Hinton *], near Bath, and in 
London, to each of those houses 60s., 
that they may think fit to pray especially 
for my soul, and the above-mentioned 
souls. , 
Also, I desire that my tenement in. 
Marlborough shall remain entirely the 
property of George Polton, my nephew, 
and of the heirs to be begotten of his body, 
and shall belong to my next heirs, if it 
should so happen that George himself 
have no such heirs, on the obligatory - 
conditions of their all being bound, in: 
their time, to celebrate obsequies for me-~ 
in every year in perpetuity,in the Church: 
of S. Peter, in Marlborough, with 
twenty-four masses on the morrow in: 
the same. 
But if this should at any time be 
neglected or omitted, then, from that 
time: that tenement shall revert to my~ 
executors, the present legacy notwith- , 
standing, and in the event of their 
deaths, I desire that it may revert to the 
Rectors, in succession, of the aforesaid - 
Church of S. Peter, so that each of them 
shall undertake in his time,and faithfully - 
discharge, the duty above-mentioned ; 
and if any one of them shall be negli- 
gent in duing so, he is to be compelled 
by the ordinary of the place. 
I desire, however, that, where, in re- 
turn for legacies left to certain religious 
or other persons or places,I haveassigned 
as above,that a certain number of masses 
shall be celebrated for my soul, &c., if 
my executors and supervisors shall see 
that many more masses can be properly 
i 
‘xxiii, 282. 
A.D. A house of lepers in Sellwood is mentioned, which received a legacy from 
the Bishop of Lincoln, A.D. 1212. The whole district was called Sellwoodshire 
709 A.D. See Jones’ Fasti, p. 23; 
Wiltshire Archeological Magazine, 
