284 History of the Priory of Monkton Farley. 



Barony of Castle Combe, where some of them resided and were 

 buried. They are not mentioned by name as benefactors to this 

 Priory, but they were so to that of Lewes, to which this was sub- 

 ordinate. They were landlords in chief of Comerwell, close to this 

 place, which, in 1547,^ the Prior of Farley held under the Barony 

 of Castle Combe. As they were supporters, like the Bohuns, of the 

 Empress ISIaud, it is not unlikely that they may have been contri- 

 butors to the establishment of the monks here. Mr. Poulett Scrope 

 considers this effigy to represent some young man of the Dunstan- 

 ville family, who died in his father's lifetime, and of whom, conse- 

 quently, there is no record remaining.^ There are also fragments 

 of a second figure in chain armour, beautifully sculptured, and once 

 coloured, but there are no arms, or other token by which it may be 

 identified. Another stone has an incised cross very perfect. 



No conventual seal of this Priory has been met with ; nor is even 

 any impression of it attached to any document known to exist. 

 But a small round silver seal (now in Mrs. Wade Browne's posses- 

 sion) was found in 1841 on the spot, bearing a well-engraved head 

 and legend of St. Mary Magdalene, to whom the House was dedi- 

 cated. It was probably a private one of the Prior; but is not large 

 enough for the more important instrument generally used in the 

 name of Prior and Convent.^ 



The spring which supplied the Convent is sheltered by a little 

 stone building, with very pointed stone roof, called " The Monk's 

 Conduit," about a quarter of a mile north-west of the house. It 

 resembles one on Bowden Hill, built with the like purpose for 

 Lacock Abbey. J. E. J. 



» History of Castle Combe, p. 317. = Ditto p. 39. 

 ^ See Wilts Magazine, vol. ii., p. 387., fig. 2. 



