By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 4X 



The deed was dated Feb. 2, 14 Edw. II.^ The Abbot's Hundred 

 Court was held at Kington : and Aubrey has preserved a letter of 

 apology for non-attendance, from one John of Artherne, (47 

 Hen. III.)- 



1517-8. From a fine MS. volume in the British Museum (Harl. 

 MS. No. 3961) containing a Terrar of the Glastonbury Estates in 

 the time of Abbot Beere, 1517, the following extracts are taken, 

 relating to their property at Kington. After special perambulation 

 and measurement it was stated on the faithful report of Richard 

 Snell the Praepositus or steward, John Tanner, "VYm. Neck, John 

 Kington, H. Gingell of Langley, and others, that 



" Richard Snell the Lord's fanner held the Manor House (curia dominicalis) 

 and about 320 acres ; thereof 20 were in Peckingell mead, 20 in Moreshall, 30 

 in Ruydon (Ridiny), paying to the Prioress of Kington as Rectress for certain 

 feeding there 8s. 6d. per annum. Also 400 acres in Heywood. A common 

 called Langley Heath, 310 acres, where the Lord and customary tenants inter- 

 commoned, with rights of common to Thomas Montague, John Gingell and their 

 tenants in Langley. 



" The Freeholders in Kington were John Saunders of Heywood, who held the 

 land late Thos. Bolehide's (now Bulidge), paying a couple of geese yearly of 

 the value of 8d. ; Thomas Tropenell, and the Prioress of Kington. The Abbot 

 of Malmsbury also held as of this Manor a house in Malmsbury, late William 

 Hall's. 



"Amongst the customary Tenants were Isabel Russell, widow, for Syddelyate, 

 La Xayshe, Culverwell ; Wm. Neck of Langley, for James's Cross ; Robert 

 Colchester, for Stanton's Dene (the hollow between Swinley and Stanton Park) ; 

 Thos. Stockman, for PeckinghuU and some land lying beyond the Avon in 

 Kayleway ; John Bullock, for PeckinghuU and Pennicroft, paying 12d. to the 

 Lord and 6d. to the Prior of Bradenstock, and having a bed of hay allowed 

 him ; John Kington, for Ellenstubb near Easton lane end ; AV alter Amyatt, for 

 Friday, Bydellwell and Vernalles cross ; Robert Bell, for Hintelthorn, and 

 many others. 



" The Guardians of the Chapel of St. Peter at Langley held for 90 years half 

 an acre of land round the said Chapel paying 2d. a year. The inhabitants of 

 Kington had common in Heywood from 3 May to Feb. 2. The Lord's farmer 

 to pay 3s. 6d. to the Vicar of the Parish Chui-ch, though the Abbot disputed the 

 pajTuent and considered that the Prioress was liable. It was particularly to be 

 observed about the common called Langley Heath, that the farmer of the Lord 

 of Langley Burrell and the Rector there claimed rights of common utterly un- 

 known to the Abbot : also that the same Lord of Langley Burrell claimed xii<i a 

 year for a right of i cad from PekinghuU Mead to the Abbot's laud in Kington, 



1 Printed in Aubrey's Coll. for N. W. L 110. 

 2 Coll. for N. Wilts, I. p. 106. 



