By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 47 



Alice More was Prioress of Kington in 1431. Aubrey says it be- 

 longed to Kington Priory, but in the Scbedule of tlie Estates of 

 that House, only a field or two appear under this name. In 1700 

 it belonged to a Mr. Chapman ; and in 1856 it was bought from 

 the fauuly of Burt by the late Mr. IS'eeld. 



LaNGLEY, OTHER^\'ISE KiNGTON LanGLEY. 



This hamlet is scattered over the high ground which forms the 

 south east side of the Parish, and is traversed by 30 acres of common 

 forming a pretty village green, skirted by farms, cottages, and gar- 

 dens, and commanding an extensive view. The name of the Parish 

 is prefixed to that of the hamlet, in order to distinguish it from 

 Langley Burrell adjacent. Sometimes, for the same reason, it was 

 called North Langley. 



It has been already stated (p. 37,) that 30 households with their 

 land were given here by the Anglo-Saxon King Edmund the Elder, 

 to his officer Wilfric, about a.d. 940. The grant, which is a fair 

 specimen of the style used in old monastic charters, (or at least in 

 documents pretending to be such,) runs thus in translation : — 



"4-0 Cross ! that rulest over all Olympus, glorious foundation of 

 the Throne of Christ our Lord, my Alpha and Omega, bless with 

 thy mark the beginning, middle, and end of this writing. More 

 brilliant than the stars and holier than all other gifts in the sight 

 of Christ, thou hast endowed with largest privileges the Royal 

 House of Edmund King of the Anglo-Saxons. This, AVilfric en- 

 riched by Sovereign bounty, is able to proclaim with truth, so that 

 by the characters of this writing to all it may be made known : — 

 viz., that the said King, under favour of God, in the nine hundred and 

 fortieth year since the Virgin Mother presented her Divine progeny 

 to the world waiting for the Holy Spirit, and in the second year of 

 his reign, endows the said Wilfric with 30 tenements at Langley 

 to himself and his heirs. . . . Let all therefore now ponder the wise 

 saying of a Christian writer, ' Render O ye rich, unto Cocsar the 

 things that are Cajsar's, and unto God the thing that are God's. Do 

 works of piety and justice and you set an example to the Catholic 



