70 Kington St. Michael. [The Priori/. 



his wife, for the souls of their Parents and successors, gives to God, St. Mary 

 and the Nuns of Kington, &c., All the Tythc of Bread and Herrings of his 

 house, of Bisclee, of Stratfield and of Worthe. 



"Witnesses, PMlip dc Mortimer, "Wm. de Mortimer, Ilenry dc Hillford, 

 Ralph the Chaplain, Thomas, Clerk : Robert Corbet, Ernaldo de Bosco, Hankin 

 de Camera, Ralph de Gueres, &c." 



"VIII. Grant by Wm. Malreward, of the Church of Tmrton.^ 



" Know all present and future generations that I Wm. Malreward have given 

 the Church of Twerton, free of all services to Kington Monastery and the Nuns : 

 saving Episcopal rights. Witnesses, Thomas de Erlega, Archdeacon of Wells, 

 Richard, Archdeacon of Bath : Ilbert, Rrecentor of Wells." 



IX. Confirmation of No. VIII., by Godfrey Malreward. 



" To all children of Holy Church, &c. Godfrey Malreward son of Godfrey 

 M. greeting. Know that I have examined the grants of my great grandfather 

 Wm. M., and of my grandfather Godfrey M. made to the Nuns of Kington, of 

 the advowson of Twerton ; and I confirm the same. Witnesses, John, Abbot 

 of Keynsham, Master Henry de Cerne, &c." 



X. Grant of Alexander of Studlcy, (about a.d. 1280.) 



" A. de Studley gives, &c., the Grange which the Nuns have built in his 

 Barton of Studley, and the site where the Grange is built : And in his Barton 

 of Cadenham a place to bvuld another Grange in, \iz. : BetAvecn his Grange and 

 Whitmere. Also he grants to the Nuns all his Tithes of Studley, Rcdmore, 

 and Cadenham, to receive the same at the Door of his Grange, and to have a 

 Store at his MUl to deposit the same. Witnessed by John de St. Q,uintin, 

 Henry dc Cerne, Adam Dclamere, Thos. Burell, Henry Kaynel."2 



XI. B. Biirnell, Bisliop of Bath and Wells, gives an acre of land 



at Kington ; and the Rectory. 



19 Edw. I. (1290.) " Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, grants to 

 God and the Chiucli of St. Mary of the Nuns, and to Claricia Prioress, in free 

 alms, one acre of land in Kington St. Michael in the East Field, in the ploughed 

 ground called ' Goldshawe,' between the land of the Prioress on the East, and 

 land of Richard Carpenter on the West, with the Advowson of the Chm-ch. 



1 The Church of Twerton, near Bath, was valued in 1318 at 6 marks; a vicar- 

 age was ordained in 1342. The Vicar to pay to the Prioress 100 shillings 

 yearly : and as often as he should fail, to forfeit one mark to the building of 

 Bath Abbey. (Wells Reg. and Coll. Som. iii. 348.) In the Priory " Book 

 of Obits," Reginald (Fitz Jocelyn, 1174) is named as the donor of Twerton 

 Parsonage : and in Harl. MS. 6964, p. 22, the Rectory is stated to have been 

 appropriated to the Nuns 12 May 1322. 



2 The concurrence of witnesses to this Deed is curious ; showing the origin of 

 the names of the live Parishes, Stanton St. Quintin, Draycoto Cerne, Leigh- 

 Dehimcre, Langley Burell, and Yatton Kaynell, 



