186 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
John. Collectanea 1, 68]. Hedington prebend was an hunderith 
markes by the yere and more. Hedington Bp. of Winchester! was 
born at this Hedington, being cheef rular of England, while King 
Edw. 8 and Edward the .... (Black Prince ?) did war in France. He 
buildid a fair new chirch at Hedington, and there made a college 
[for canons regular. Coll. 1, 66.] with a Deane and xii Ministers, 
wherof parte were prebendaries. He caussid the prebende of 
Hedington to be removed from the title of Rumsey, and to be 
impropriated to this college. He procured besides a 200 marks of 
landes by yere to this college. And this was done about the time 
that King Edward wan Calays. 
Prince Edward, caullid the Blak Prince, had a great favor to the 
Bones-Homes beyond these. Wherapon cumming home he hartely 
besought Bishop Hedington to chaunge the Ministers of his college 
into Bones-Homes. [Boni Homines. Collect.1,66]. -Hedington at 
1 Leland’s notes upon Edington are valuable, and form the staple of the brief 
account that is given of this house both by Tanner and in the New Monasticon. 
One interesting circumstance connected with the Founder (for which the 
writer is indebted to the Rev. Edward Wilton) appears to have escaped the 
notice of all who have touched upon the subject. He is generally called William 
of Edington, and is commonly said to have been born in the parish: which is 
very probable, as in a deed printed in the New Monasticon (miscalled the 
‘* Foundation Deed,” being merely the Preamble to the Code of Statutes appointed 
to be observed in the House), it is stated that the Reverend Father derived his 
origin from that village (‘‘ de qua villa idem pater traxit originem”): but his 
JSamily name has never been particularly identified. He appears to have been a 
Cheney : no doubt connected with the Cheneys of Brooke Hall, mentioned above. 
The authority for this statement is the Cartulary of Edington ; according to 
extracts alleged to be taken from it, and preserved in the Ashmol. Museum, 
Oxon. [Ashm. M. Dugd. 39, 142.] His father’s name was Walter de Cheney, 
or ‘* Walterus de Querew” (‘‘ of the Oak ;” in French, ‘‘Chéne.’’) In another 
deed, also given at length in the same extracts, and dated 35 Edw. III. 
(A.D. 1361), the Bishop is described as ‘‘ Guardian of the heiresses of Sir John 
Pavely.” This throws some light upon the marriage mentioned in a former 
note, of Sir Ralph Cheney to one of the heiresses, Joan Pavely, by which the 
estate of Brooke passed to the family of Cheney. 
The last of the Paveleys probably assisted Bp. (Cheney) of Edington to a 
large extent, in building Edington Church: as the tower windows seem to 
contain a singular architectural allusion to that family. The tracery is arranged 
in the form of a cross; the Payeley arms being a cross flory. 
