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amongst other lands and tenements, some called “Clifcroft and 
Bradcroft, and a croft above Hanecleye paying 13d. per annum to 
the Lord Prior and Court of Farlege, viz., at Hockeday 12d. and 
at Michaelmas ld.”! To this day certain property in the town of 
Bradford is held under the Manor of Monkton Farleigh. A field 
called ‘the Conigre,’ (one of several pieces of ground bearing that 
name in the parish) just behind the house occupied by Mr. Adye, 
in Woolley street, and some houses in St. Margaret street, nearly 
opposite the present Railway Station, are still held under leases 
granted by the lessee of “the Manor of Monkton Farleigh and 
Cumberwell,” as it is termed. 
Since the date of the grant of the Manor and Hundred to the Abbess 
of Shaftesbury, certain changes have taken place. Ina previous page 
we have explained at some length its original boundaries (pp. 18-22). 
Westwood, which at the first clearly formed part of it, has been re- 
moved ; and the parishes of Broughton, Chalfield, and Monkton 
Farleigh have been added to it, for they do not seem to be included 
within the limits described in Ethelred’s charter. The removal of 
Westwood, though so intermixed with the other lands, and not on 
the confines of the domain, into a distinct Hundred, that of Elstub 
and Everley, is not easily accounted for. In the time of Domesday, 
Westwood belonged to the Priory of St. Swithin, Winchester, to 
which it had been given by Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, 
and its revenue was allotted for the sustenance of the monks of that 
society, (pro victu monachorum).? The Lordship of the Manor of 
Westwood now belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. 
The Abbess of Shaftesbury held not only what is now called 
the Lay Manor of Bradford, but that also which is termed the 
Prebendal Manor. She held, in fact, the impropriate Rectory of 
Bradford. Amongst the valuations of the ecclesiastical revenue 
of Bradford (of which there are several) the portion of the Abbess 
is always reckoned.* A certain quantity of glebe lands and 
beet 1 Wilts Archwological Magazine, i, 281. ‘y 
* Wyndham’s ‘ Domesday,’ p. 60. 
* Thus in the ‘Yaxatio LEeclesiastica,’ under Pope Nicholas (1287), we have 
the following entries, 
Ecclesia de Bradforde cum capell .............. 4613 4 
AAR ri 5 i506 kM vin Rivide 60 3.4 4% pn esiee 5 0 0 
