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his desire entreatid his collegians to take that ordre. And so they 
did all, saving the Deane. Hedington sent for ij of the Bones-Homes 
of Asscherugge! to rule the other xij of his college. The elder of 
the ij that cam from Asscherugge was caullid John Ailesbyri, and he 
was the first Rector (7. e., Prior of the House) at Hedington. 
Hedington gave greate substance of mony and plate onto his 
college. 
One Blubyri, a prebendary of Saresbyri and executor of the 
wille of Hedington, caussid a great benefice of the patronage of 
Sceaftesbyri Monastery to be impropriate to Hedington. Blubyri,? 
as I hard, was buried at Hedington. 
Sir Richard Penley, a Knight, gave the lordship of I/desle (West 
Iisley) in Barkshire, a 2 miles from Wantage, a market toune. 
This Penley? lay long at Hedington and ther died and was biried. 
Rouse, a Knight, gave to Hedington his fair lordship of Bainton, 
aboute half a mile from Hedington. Rouse* is buried at Hedington, 
[ BENEFACTORS. | 
[Penley and Rowse: Knights. Jerberd and Bultington.5 Collec. 
1, 66]. 
1 Ashridge, the only other ‘‘ Bons Hommes” House in England, is in the 
parish of Pitstone, co. Bucks. It was afterwards the Earl of Bridgwater’s. 
2 John Bleobury, clerk, was one of the feoffees of Sir Thomas Hungerford in 
the purchase of Farley Castle from the Burghersh family in a.p. 1369. An 
obit was kept for him at Edington. 
3 “Penley.” There is an estate and residence still called Penleigh House 
near Westbury. 
4 Sir John Rous, of Imber, in 1414 (I Hen. V.) settled the manor and 
patronage of the chapel of Baynton (near Earlstoke) on his son ‘‘ John Rous, of 
Beynton, jun.” William Rous (son of the latter) in 1437 sold part of Imber to 
Lord Hungerford: the other part he gave in 1444 to Edington Priory, Thomas 
Elme being then Rector. His brother John Rous, a great supporter of the 
Lollards and a troublesome disturber of Churchmen of the day, is supposed to 
have made his peace with them by granting his manor of Baynton to the 
Convent, in 1443, [See Hoare’s Heytesbury, p. 162.] 
5 “ Bultington.” This is, without the slightest doubt, a mistake for Bulk- 
ington. There is a village so called (a tything of Keevil a few miles from 
Edington), which gave its name to some family of importance in those days. 
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