38 Kington St. Michael. 



For the same pui-pose she also purchased Mertou in South Damer- 

 ham.^ King Ethelred's grant of Kington is witnessed by (the 

 probable instigator to the gift) Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 afterwards Abbot of Glaston, and Oswald Archbishop of York. 

 These donations were confirmed by the Popes, Lucius II. in 

 1144, and Alexander III. in II68.2 



From the Glastonbury charter and some other scources, a few 

 notices of Kington have been gleaned, possibly interesting to local 

 readers. 



The only place under the name of Chintone in Wilts, mentioned in 

 the Domesday survey, is an estate of no great extent then held by 

 Ralph de Mortimer, a large owner in this neighbourhood. It had 

 been held in the reign of the Confessor by one Alwin a Saxon, 

 under the Church of Glastonbury. It is probable that the land 

 alluded to was that afterwards given by the Mortimers to endow the 

 Priory of Kington.^ The principal estate of the Abbey of Glaston- 

 bury seems in the Domesday survey to be described under the 

 name of Langleghe.* 



The wood called Haywood, then much larger than it is now, 

 belonged at this time partly to the Abbey, partly to one William 

 of Haywood (now a farm house adjoining) : and between these 

 proprietors many disputes took place, according to documents 

 which John Aubrey has copied.^ 



In other documents it is mentioned that the Abbot of Stanley 

 had 40 acres at the western side of the Parish : and the Abbot of 

 Malmsbury 21 acres, given to his house by William Wayte of 

 Chippenham, and Edith his wife : doing service for the same to the 

 Abbot of Glastonbury as Lord of the Fee.^ Thomas Verdon was 

 also a holder under the Church. The Prior and Convent of Monkton 

 Farley (chief landowners in Alliugton) exchanged 22 acres near 

 Fowleswyke Gate with the Abbot of Malmsbury.' 



1 New Mon. Glaston, No. C. and Sir R. C. Hoare's Soutli Damerham, p. 3. 



2 Do. I. 37. 3 "Wyndham's Domesday, p. 389. 



4 Wyndham's Domesday, p. 109. 5 CoUect. for N. Wilts, I. 102. 



6 Malms. Chartulary, No. 218. 



7 Do. (Jones's) B. Mus. p. 110. 



