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ments], not reckoning festivals 36s. per annum. ° Item, there are 
1624 acres of Arable, worth 6d. per acre. Sum £4 ls. 3d. Item, 
30 acres of meadow, worth 2s. per acre per annum. Sum £3. 
Item, the pasture [quantity not given] is worth 18s. per annum. 
Sum total £11 9s. 3d.” “Inventory of goods in the Manor of the 
Prior aforesaid at Brouton, as valued by a Jury of 12 men: viz., 
by William of Atteworth, John Atte Slade, Roger de Berlaye, 
John de Mortelaye, John de Wolock, Simon le Jonge, John de 
Grenhull, Hugh Cook, Henry le Frie, Walter Gore, Walter Seli- 
man, and Robert le Jonge,! viz., 1 plough-horse (or bullock) worth 
6s.; 17 oxen 6s. 8d. each, sum £5 13s. 4d., 1 bull worth 6s. 8d.; 7 
cows ds. each, sum £1 15s.; 6 young oxen 2s. 6d. each, sum lds. ; 7 
calves 10d. each, sum 5s. 10d.; 17 hoggets [ weaned lambs | 7d. each, 
sum 9s. 11d.; 2 waggons 8s.; 2 carts 2s.; 30 quarters of wheat at ds. 
sum £7 10s.; 17 quarters of barley at 3s., sum £2 11s.; 6 quarters 
of beans at 3s. 4d., sum 20s.; 40 quarters of oats at 1s. 4d., sum £2 
13s. 4d.; hay £3. Sum total £26 16s. 1d.’ 
In the valuation of Pope Nicholas 1292, which determined the 
taxation of all benefices till the survey made the 26th of Henry 
VIII., Monkton is assessed at £5 14s. 10d. The gross value at 
that time was, as appears by the first of the above two valuations, 
£11 9s. 3d. 
In the 17 Henry VIII. 1525, when John Stone was Prior, a 
computation was made of the Priory of Farleigh, wherein are the 
entries : 
Els HL 
“Monketon in Broughton. Site of the Manor ..10 0 0 
Ditto at, Tenements there 2 4 0 
Ditto ae Meadow called Chaldmede .. 1 6 8” 
1 Of these sirnames there are derived, from residence, Roger de Berleye (bere- 
ley, the barley ground), John de Mortleye (magwort-ley, the thyme ground), 
John de Wolock (wold-loc, the enclosure in the plain), John de Grenhull (Green 
hill, from hilan, Sax: to cover); from occupation, Walter Gore (Walter who 
lived on the strip of land), Walter Seliman (the seller or vender, from syllan, 
Sax: fo sell), Hugh Cook and Henry le Frie (the artist, and the savoury result 
_ of his skill) are certainly well assorted; from personal characteristics, Robert 
le Yonge (younger). 
? Dugdale’s Monasticon, 
