52 Kington St. Michael. \_The Priory. 



parish, of the Abbey of Glaston.^ In the Marty rology of the 

 Priory, a day was set apart for commemoration of "Adam de 

 "Wayfer and the Mortimers, who gave us all our land in Kington."^ 



Besides the land, they had also the Rectorial Tithe, and pre- 

 sented to the Vicarage. The Rectory originally belonged to 

 Glastonbury Abbey, but under the arrangement before alluded to 

 (p. 39,) it was transferred to the See of Bath and Wells, and then 

 given to the Nuns by Robert Burnell, Bishop. 



Their estate lay chiefly about the House ; including more than 

 now forms the Priory Farm. Amongst their outlying property were 

 the granges of Studley near Calne, and Cadenham, with Tithes 

 there and at Redmore, given by Alexander of Studley ; the Rec- 

 tory of Twerton, near Bath, by Wm. Malreward ; a Manor at 

 Great Somerford, (held by a chief rent under the Earl of Arundell 

 at the Dissolution,) given by Richard de Heriet ;^ land at Bradley, 

 near Alton, Hants, by Petronilla Bluet ; Tithes at Stures and 

 Sanford, Lazarton and Stapleton, near Stourpayne, Dorset, by Wm. 

 of Harptree and Roger Villiers ; besides certain tenements at 

 Malrasbury, Sherston Parva, TJficot, Leigh Delamere, (where a 

 small field adjoining the Rectory garden stOl bears the name of 

 " The Minchery,") Calne,* and Boyton, Co. Wilts ; Cam and Dod- 

 dington, Co. Gloucester. To stock their home farm, Wm. de 

 Longespee, Earl of Sarum, gave them by will in 1225, 100 ewes 

 and 6 cows. The coppice between the Nimnery and Easton Piers 



1 The Priory continued to pay a chief Rent to Glastonbury till the Dissolution. 

 (Val. Ecc.) 



2 The Brimpton alluded to is in Berkshire, a few miles south of Reading. In 

 one of the Priory Charters (No. 7), several places in that neighbourhood are 

 named as of the estate of Moi-timer, and at Brimpton itself the fourth part of a 

 Fee held under Edmund de Mortimer belonged to these very Nuns, (I. p. M, 

 IV, 87.) Though little is known of this family of Wayfer, still as they assumed 

 the name of " Brintone" from their residence, it is clear that they were terri- 

 torial clients there as here, of the great House of Mortimer. Their name is also 

 met vdih. in that capacity, in Salop. In later times a Roger Mortimer, who 

 died 1336, married a daughter of Sir Robert de Wafre ; and in a.d. 1349, a 

 Richard Wayfer was Rectoi of Luckington, aboiit six miles from Kington. 



3 The Nuns had also some Tithe in Little Somerford. 



* For their land and Tithe there, they paid an acknowledgement of two 

 pounds of wax per annum to the Churchwardens of Calne. 



