142 Bishop's Cannings. 



Bishop. It is not easy to understand why it pleased Bishop Os- 

 mund to exempt from episcopal authority the parish, which com- 

 prised his own manorial estate, and to assign it to others ; but it is 

 in agreement with one of the statutes of the Cathedral, in which 

 lie counsels the Dean and Canons to be on their guard against the 

 influence of the Bishop in their concerns. 



Under the Land Tax Act, in the beginning of this century, the 

 great tythes and a portion of the small tythes, were sold by the 

 Dean and Chapter to Sir Anthony Abdy, then Lord Farmer of 

 their manor of Cannings Canonicorum. He assigned them to T. 

 Sutton, Esq. of New Park in this parish ; by whose will they were 

 bequeathed to his daughter Eleanor, wife of Thomas Grimston 

 Estcourt, Esq. ; and from her they descended to her son, Mr. So- 

 theron Estcourt. Of these tythes Mr. Estcourt, senior, merged the 

 greater portion in land by a certain agreement between himself and 

 the Bishop of Salisbury. The rest (under the arrangement for the 

 general disposal of his interest in the episcopal property, already 

 referred to) has been most liberally surrendered by Mr. Sotheron 

 Estcourt, for the augmentation of the chapels of Southbroom and 

 Chittoe, and for the maintenance of the chancel of Bishop's Can- 

 nings church. 



The Vicarage. 



The Dean and Canons are the patrons of the vicarage, which is 

 valued in the King's books at £17 19s. 2d. 



In a.d. 1778 an Act of Parliament was obtained to lay several 

 certain common lands, which was carried into effect, and a portion of 

 pasture assigned to the vicar. In 1812 the whole of the tythes of the 

 parish due to the vicar were under the provisions of another Act of 

 Parliament commuted, for the great and small tythes of certain 

 lands in the tything of Coate, and of a farm (now Mr. Gidding's) 

 in the tything of Horton ; and for an assignment of a certain ad- 

 ditional quantity of land at Coate and Bishop's Cannings. Under 

 the more recent general commutation, all these tythes have been 

 converted into a rent charge of £360 a year. The Dean and Chap- 

 ter of Salisbury in selling their property, and the great tythes to 

 their tenants (as mentioned above), were careful to charge them 



