By the Rev 



. . . Susanna .... 



. . . Alice Hankerton . 



. . . Christina Nye 

 1454. Alice Lawrence . 

 1492. Kateqvrine Moleyns 



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Obit 23 May. 

 Do. 11 June. 

 Died 1454. Obit kept 2 Dec. 

 Resigned 1492. Saruin Register. 

 A Professed Nun of Shaftesbury, 

 elected 2 April. Sar. Reg. 

 The Names of the Nuns at Kington in the time of Katharine 

 Moleyns, Prioress, were 



Joan Bristow. Joan Hodges. Agnes Burnell. 



Alice Mershefeld. Christina "Westbourne. Mulier Chynne. 

 Alice Lawrence. Christina Woodland. Alice Hawkins. 

 1506. Alice Staunton . . A Nun of this house : appointed 



Prioress by the Bishop, by lapse. 

 Audley Reg. Sarum. 

 1511. Cicely BoDENHAM . . Afterwards Abbess of Wilton. 

 About this time happened the abduction of a Prioress by a very 

 troublesome clerk at Castle Combe, as related in Mr. Poulett 

 Scrope's History of that parish, p. 297. Sir John Scrope (who 

 died 1517) in a supplication to the Archbishop of Canterbury, sets 

 forth at great length sundry grievances endured by him at the 

 hands of Sir Thomas Kelly, curate under Sir Ingeram Bedyl, the 

 Rector : amongst which " he prayeth to be recompensed for his 

 wrongful trouble and vexation that he hath had by the menes of 

 the said Thomas Kelley, that rohhcd the poor Monastry of Kyngtou, 

 and carryed away the Prioress of the same." Cicely Bodenham was 

 of a family settled at Bodenham in the Hundred of Down ton. In 

 the stained Chancel window, given by herself to Kington Church, 

 Aubrey says there was remaining in his time, the greater part of her 

 Picture in her cope and robes. 

 1534. Elizabeth Pede . . Val. Eccl. 

 . . . Mary Dennis . . . 



Of an old family at Pucklechurch. She was the last Prioress, 

 and was pensioned with £5 a year. Aubrey's statement that " she 

 died in Somerset within the memory of man," is corroborated by a 

 note written on the fly-leaf of a Manuscript in Corpus Cliristi Coll. 

 Oxford, [No. ccxx. fol. 3. b.] " This bokc was appertaining to 



