190 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
Sept. 16 a.p. 1358: was the first tonsure of the brethren.! 
A.D. 1361. The Conventual Church of E. was dedicated by 
Robert Weyvile, B. of Sarum, to the honour of St. James 
the Apostle, 8. Katharine, and All Saints. 2 
Oct. 8 a.v. 1866. Wm. of Edyndone, Bp. of Winchester, 
Founder of the Monastery aforesaid, died.” 
WESTBURY TO TROWBRIDGE AND BATH. [vul. 87]. 
From Brooke Haulle unto Wesbyri by low ground having wood, 
pasture and corne, a myle and a halfe. It is the hedd toune of the 
hundrede to whome it giveth name. In it is kepte ons a week a 
smale market. Ther is a large churche. The toune stondithe 
moste by clothiers. 
Ther risythe 2 springs by Westbyri, one by sowthe, and another 
as by southe west, and sone meetinge together go abowte Bradeley 
village a mile and a half lower into Bisse broke that rennithe by 
Brook Haule and so to Trougbridge, and then into Avon. 
Bradeford, the praty clothinge toun on Avon, is a 2 miles of. 
From Trowghbridge onto Bathe by very hilly ground a 7 miles, 
levinge the woods and Furley parke and castle on the lyfte hand.3 
1 Bishop Wm. (Cheney) of Edington had found at this place a college of 
secular priests; i. e., parochially officiating ministers with cure of souls. He 
converted it into an establishment of Monks Regular, to live “secundum regulam” 
without cure of souls. Their new monastery was six years in building; and on 
its completion, the brethren commenced as Regulars, adopting the shaven crown 
and monkish habit. 
2 The common seal of the Brethren of the monastic house of Edington (which 
may perhaps have had a different patronage from that of the church) bears the 
figures of St. Peter and St. Paul. 
3 There were two roads by which he may have gone: either by Stowford, and 
from that place to Iford, by a now nearly disused lane, which immediately skirted 
the wall of the then park of Farley Castle; and so from Iford, along the valley 
to Freshford Bridge: Or, by Westwood village, and along the high ground at the 
back of Iford, to the same point. From Freshford he evidently followed an old 
road above Limpley Stoke, down by Waterhouses, where, “at the very pitch at 
the bottom of a very steep hill,’ he would cross the Midford Brook ; ascend 
either Monkton Combe Hill by the large quarries, or Brass Knocker Hill, and 
over Claverton Down, into Bath. 
