PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SOMERSETSHIRE ARCH^EOLOGICAL AND 

 • NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 



1856, PART II. 



PAPER S, ETC. 



aiemarialfi nf tjje 3Ilnnur nnlt JUctortj 

 nf limingtan. 



EXTRACTS FROM A PAPER 



CONTRIBTJTED BY JOHN TANSWELL, ESQ., 



(INNER TEMPLE.) 



THE parish of Limington, (or the town upon the Tor- 

 rent Lim in the old British, . vide Collinson), is 

 situatcd on the River Yeo or Ivel, ahout a nüle from the 

 ancient town of Ilchester. It contains about 300 inhabi- 

 tants, and is divided into two tithings, namely, Limington, 

 and Draycot, a hamlet lying a short distance to the east- 

 ward. 



In the time of King Edward the Confessor, the lordship 

 of Limington was in the possession of one Saulf. From 

 bim it came into the hands of the monks of Glastonbury, 

 who convcyed it to Roger de Curcelle in exchange for five 



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