174 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
rising a 3 miles above it by north est. This broke goith into Avon 
about a mile beneth Harnham Bridge. [ut. 98]. 
Wm. Talebot Lord of the 100 of Alwarbyri. [1v. 177] 
Slape; a prebend in the paroch of Netherbyri. (do). 
Stratford: a preebend on the bank of Avon, not far from the 
old city of Sarum. (do). 
Dean of Sarum Rector of Sunninge. (do). 
Heitredesbury, a Collegiate Church impropriate to the deanery 
of Sarum, has the gift of 4 praebends.! (do.) 
Longalata (Longleat) priory, where the church is dedicated 
to S. Radegund. John Vernon, Kt., first founder of this 
place. (do.) 
[The relics of 8. Melorus, son of Melian Duke of Cornwall, 
were deposited at Amesbury. vu. 54). 
[ Isabelle, the 4th daughter of Henry Duke of Lancaster and Maude 
daughter to the Duke of York, was prioress of Ambresbyri (1202). 
vi. 42].8 
1 Heytesbury Church was made collegiate about A.D, 1165, chiefly through 
the agency of Roger Archdeacon of Wilts, or Ramsbury. The four prebends 
are—l. Tytherington, given by the Empress Maud: 2. Horningsham, by 
Humphrey de Bohun, and Margaret, his mother: 3. Hill-Deverill, by Elias 
Giffard of Brymsfield: and 4. Swallowcliffe, by Gerard Giffard of the Fonthill 
branch. The Archdeacon was at first head of this Collegiate Church, but it 
was afterwards annexed to the deanery of Sarum. The Dean nowacts as Ordinary 
within it, and has the patronage of the four prebends. 
2‘ Tongalata.” This derivation is adopted by Sir R. C. Hoare [Heyts. p. 69], 
as applicable to the dong and broad valley, at the end of which (coming from 
Horningsham) stood the priory, and now stands the mansion of Longleat. But 
the name is also anciently written Longaleta, and Langlete: and the true 
derivation would rather seem to be from ‘‘ Leat,” an aqueduct or watercourse. 
There were formerly mills, on or near the site before the priory was built, sup- 
plied by a long conduit. The Leat at Plymouth, a celebrated piece of engineer- 
ing in its day, was constructed to supply that town with water, by Sir Francis 
Drake. There is also the Leate at Truro conveying water to the town. 
3 Henry Earl of Lancaster, second son of Edmund Crouchback, and grandson 
of H. IIJ., married Maud, daughter, not of the Duke of York, but of Str 
Patrick Chaworth. 
