TAUNTON TKIORY. 9 



soul, aiid of our ancestors and our heirs, have given and 

 by our present Charter have confirmed to God and the 

 Church of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul of Tan- 

 ton, and to the Canons Regulär there serving God, the 

 pasture and the waste of KingeshuU from Wulfeldesont as 

 far as Hunteneswell, the pasture to wit and the waste which 

 customarily paid to our farm of Sumerton sixteen pence 

 per annum ; to be held by the same Canons of us and of 

 our heirs, for a free, pure and perpetual alms. AVherefore 

 we will and straitly charge that the aforesaid Canons do 

 have and hold the aforesaid pasture and waste well, 

 and in peace, freely, and honorably, dischargedly, and 

 quietly from all custom and secular exaetion, as the charter 

 which we made to them whilst we were Earl of Morton 

 reasonably attests. Witness W. Earl of Salisbury, and 

 more besides. Dated at Westminster, the 17th day of 

 July, in the sixth year of our reign (1204)." ••' 



Vi'^e learn from the Testa de Nevill that tliis. property 

 was situated upon Quantock. In the recoi'd referred to 

 the name is written " Kingeshill," and the land is stated to 

 have been accustomed to pay yearly to the Exchequer in 

 London the sum of sixteen jjence. f 



The Prior appears to have proved his right, against 

 William de PrahuUe, to one carucate of land with its ap- 

 purtenances at Wudeham, some time in the same reign. 

 The record, however, is fragmentary, and the exact date 

 uncertain, but it was probably about the year 1204. J 



John, Prior of Taunton, who does not appear in the 

 lists of Dugdalc and Collinson, and therefore, as a matter 

 of course, not in those of Savage and other copyists, was 



* Cart. Anliq. Z. n. 16. 



t Test, de Nev., p. 162. 



t Frag. llec. inccrt. tcuip. Reg. Joh. rot. 3. in dorso. Abrev. Plac. p. 95. 



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