By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 71 



Witnesses, John Delamcre, Godfrey de Wrokeshale, Henry de Cerne, John 

 Mauduit Knight, Richard Pigot, Eoger de Cumb, Reginald Croke, and others." i 



XII. Wm. Harptree of Harptree, Co. Som. grants Tithes at 

 Stompai/ne, Co. Dorset. 



" Wra. son of John of Harptree, vnth consent of Matilda his wife and their 

 heirs, grants to the Nuns the Tythes of Corn in Stures and Sanford, and the 

 Tenth of ' meat not bought ' there." (Quoere, of stock bred and lulled by him- 

 self?) ""Witnesses, Richard Abbot of Keynsham, "Wm. Abbot of Kingswood, 

 &c."2 



XIII. Grant of Roger de Villiers, at Stoiirpayne.^ 



" Roger de "Villiers gives the second Tythes of his demesne lands at Stures 

 and Sanford, and 10th of ' meat not bought ' : respecting which a Plea was 

 moved between him and the Nuns before commissioners appointed by the Apos- 

 tolic See, viz. : Albert, Prior of Brhuperia* and Dean of Christianity of the same 

 Province: To hold the same, in as full manner as they had been given by 

 his uncle Richard, son of Elias de Orescueil, to the said Nuns. Scaled, &c." 



The Priory after the Dissolution. 



At the Dissolution the whole Priory Estate, including Kington 

 Rectory, was granted (30 June 1538), to Sir Richard Long, 

 younger brother of Sir Henry Long of Draycote who had been its 

 chief Seneschal.^ The Rectorial Tithe of Kington continues now 

 to be part of the property of that family, represented by Viscount 

 Wellesley. The House and lands about it were afterwards sold in 

 1556 to John Taylor of Castle Combe.^ Isaac Taylor (brother of 

 John, Vicar of Kington) resided there in 1570. His daughter 



1 This Deed (printed also twice in the old Edition of the Monasticon, I. 534 

 and II. 889.) is the iirst in which the name of Kington St. 3Iichael appears to 

 be found. 



2 See Valor Eccl. I. 2G9. The Harptrees of East Harptree, Co. Som. (under 

 which manor Stourpayne in Dorset was held), afterwards took the name of 

 Ooumay. Coll. Som. iii. 587. 



3 See Hutch. Dor. I. 107. There is no mention, in the Val. Eccl., of this as 

 belonging to Kington Priory. 



* Probably meant for Beaurepairc {vulgo Baruper), near Basingstoke. 



5 Rot. XXX. 30. Hen. "VIII. But by an Inquisition at "Warminster 19 Dec. 

 3 and 4 Phil, and Mary (1556-7), on the death of Henry Long of Draycote, 

 (older brother of the grantee), it was found that the said Henry held the Rectory 

 of Kington St. Michael, by the 20th part of a Knight's fee under the King : and 

 that Robert was his sou and heir, (llarl. MS. 757. f. 213.) 

 Rot. cxiij. 3 and 1 Phil, and Mary. 



