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and Drayton ; and the advowsons of the churches of 

 Muchelney, Drayton, Ile Abbatis, Ilmyster, Hylcombe, 

 Horton, Fyfhede, Somerton, Moreton, Meriett, and Chyp- 

 stapull, and of two chantries in Ilmyster. According to 

 the computation of Dugdale, the revenues amounted in 

 1534 to £447 5s., and, according to that of Speed, to 

 £498 16s. 34d 



It is certified that the Abbat, in the 12th of Hen. II, 

 held bis lands, after the custom of bis predecessors, by the 

 service of one knight's fee ; in the 14th of Henry III, 

 that he paid three marks for one knight's fee towards the 

 king's first passage into Brittany ; and, in the 38th of 

 Hen. III, that the same sum was contributed towards 

 the aid for making a knight of the king's eldest son. 



The Abbat was also prebendary of Ilminster. On the 

 29th of November, 1201, Richard, the then Abbat, and 

 his convent, made a grant to Savaricus, Bishop of Bath 

 and Glastonbury, of the church of Ilminster, which was 

 afterwards converted into a prebend, annexed to the 

 Abbey, and held by the Abbat down to the Dissolution.* 



Hearne has printed in the first volume of the Historia de 

 Rebus gestis Glastoniensibus of Adam de Domerham, a large 

 and interesting collection of documents relating to Much- 

 elney Abbey, to some of which reference has already 

 been made, including a few of general interest.f These 

 consist, inter alia, of a Taxatio Spiritualium et Tempo- 

 ralium, Articuli Visitatorum, charters of Edward III in 



* Anglia Sacra, vol. i, p. 563. Chron. Walt. Hemingf. vol. ii., p. 620. 

 Reg. Well.,\,io\.4:\. 

 + Hearne has given, as a reasou for the publieation of these documents, 

 the fact that next to notbing was previously knovvn of the House in ques- 

 tion. " De hac abbatia egregia aliquot nuper edidimus, e Codicibus MSS. 

 honoratissimi nobilissimique Doniini Caroli Baronis Bruce, ad initium 

 Adauri de Domerhai.i, idque ea potissiinum de caussa, quia jam antea 

 paucissima de eadem consijnnvjiunt scriptores Monastici ftactenus in lucem 

 tditi."- Lib. Nig. Scao. Lnnd. 1771, Vol. I, p. 80. 



