By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 283 
The oldest document in which the name occurs is in Latin, dated 
A.D. 1280, (9 Edw. I.), near 600 years ago, in which the tithes of 
the church of Lullington near Frome, were granted to the Priory 
of “Lange-lete.” Here therefore its regular history begins. It 
is quite certain that upon the very site of this house once stood a 
Priory of Black Canons of the Order of St. Augustine. It was 
founded about the year 1270 by Sir John Vernon, then Lord of the 
Manor of Horningsham. Very little is known about it: but it 
was dedicated to St. Radegund, a canonized French Queen, and was 
a very small establishment, consisting only of a Prior and some 
four or five brethren, maintained out of lands lying near or in 
adjoining parishes. There was a church on the spot, and in one 
part of it called the Chapel of the B.V.M., an altar was endowed 
in the year 1408, by Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farley Castle, with 
the Rectory of Rusthall (commonly called Rushall), near Pewsey, 
for daily masses for the souls of his family. That document is still 
preserved at this house. There were other altars in the Church, to 
St. Cyriac and St. Juliana, martyrs. The names of several Priors 
are on record. They had an official seal, of which an impression is 
attached to a deed, and an engraving is published in Sir R. C. Hoare’s 
history. [See Copy annewed|. We have also a Latin inventory 
of their plate, Service books of various kinds, and certain vestments, 
of patterns, which, considering the profession of the wearers, seem 
remarkable enough. Amongst them is a robe of light red, figured 
over with birds in darker red; a gown of white silk, worked in 
with birds in gold; a third is a cowl of scarlet, powdered over with 
stags in gold; and lastly a cape of green velvet, covered with 
griffins. These devices may have been taken from the coats of arms 
of the donors: but though we often find altar-cloths and frontals 
bearing such figures, I do not immediately recollect having ever 
read any where of priest’s dresses so adorned. The Priory stood 
here about 250 years. In 1529 the establishment was reported to 
have fallen into decay, partly from improvident waste of its means, 
partly from the diminishing number of its small Society. So by 
Letters Patent, dated 20 June, granted to Lawrence Campeggio, 
Cardinal Bishop of Sarum, and Peter Stanter, Esq., of Horningsham, 
