54 Kington St. Michael. [The Priory. 



whose chamber is that on the right hand of the Porch with the 

 old fashioned chimney." 



There is an engraving of the remains of the Nunnery in the 

 Gent. Mag. 1803, p. 717. On the eastern side of it was a square 

 Court, the north wing of which was a Chapel. This had a Norman 

 doorway, but transomed windows.^ It fell to decay soon after the 

 Dissolution, but a few arches were standing in 1800. In the ter- 

 raced garden freestone coffins have been occasionally found ; and 

 in one grave which, by the chalice discovered in it, had been that 

 of a priest, a stone of the thickness of a grinding stone having in 

 the centre a heart held between two hands. 



The Editors of the New Monasticon had never met with any 

 impression of the Seal of this Priory. 



Names of Prioresses of St. Mary's, Kington, 



Collected from Deeds, Registers, and the Book of Obits kept in the 



Nunnery. 



A.D. 



Eleanor Mentioned in Aubrey's MSS. 



c. 1280. Claricia Priory Charter, No. xi. ('see wj/m.^ 



. . . Edith of Bristow . . Book of Obits, 26 Dec. 



. . . Amice Do. do. Nov. 10. 



. . . Christina Charlton . Do. do. January 4. 



. . . Cecilia Lambeth Peg. Reynolds. 



1319. Joan Duredent . . Resigned 8 March, 1325. Obit kept 



21 Mar. [Lamb. Reg. Reynolds.] 

 1326. DiONYSiA "ofHorsehill A Nun of Bromhale, near Wind- 

 under Chobham, in sor ; made Prioress by the Arch- 

 Surrey." bishop of Canterbury. Lamb. Reg. 



Reynolds. 

 . . . Isabel Husee , . . Obit kept 27 March. 

 1349. Lucia Paas .... 



1431. Alice More . . . . Late Sub-Prioress, Obit kept 2 Ap. 

 1434. JoanDonyton orDYNGTON. Obit 21 March. 



1 Aubrey has preserved the pattern of this window in his unpublished MS. 

 called " Chronologica Architectonica." 



