10 NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Rev. Thos. Hugo, h.a., f.a.s., read a paper on 

 " Architectural Restoration," in which he animadverted on 

 the too frequent disregard and violation of the original 

 design, so that attempts made to restore ancient buildings 

 were, in many instances, not restorations, but deteriora- 

 tions. 



Mr. J. G. Bord read a paper on Bruton. He inferred 

 that, as Brewton was supposed to be an ancient dernesne 

 of the crown, under the Saxon monarchs, it was not 

 improbable that Ailmer, or -ZEthelman, Earl of Cornwall 

 and Devon, should, with the consent of King Edgar, 

 have founded here a religious house for Benedictine Monks. 



At the Norman Conquest William conferred the manors 

 of Brewton and Brewham, among others, upon Sir, William 

 de Mohun. He was succeeded by his son, William de 

 Mohun, who gave Lydeard St. Lawrence to the Canons 

 of Taunton. This son, William de Mohnn the third, was 

 one of the barons who adhered to the Empress Maude 

 against Stephen, and was created Earl of Somerset and 

 Dorset. In the reign of Stephen, A.D. 1142, (according 

 to Dugdale) he founded a Priory for Canons Regulär of 

 St. Augustine, on the ruins of a rnore ancient house for 

 Benedictine Monks, at Brewton. William de Mohun the 

 fourth confirmed his father's grants to this priory, and at 

 his death was interred in the church of this monastery. 

 He was succeeded by his son Reginald. Among the 

 muniments in Dunster Castle is a copy of two grants by 

 William and Eeginald Mohun to the Monks of Brewton, to 

 elect their prior from their own house, and present the 

 same to them and their heirs for their approbation. This 

 patronage afterwards came into the family of the Luttrells. 



The Manor of Brewton was granted by the crown, in 

 the 37th of Henry VIII, to Sir Maurice Berkeley, Bart. 



