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The rectory of S. Mary Magclalene was valued at the same 

 time at £G0 ; Pyministr, at £21 6s. 8cl. ; Nienhid, at 

 £4 6s. 8d. ; Kyngeston, at £13 6s. 8d.; Cumbeflori, at 

 £4 Is. Bd. ; Moneketon, at £20; Thurlebei-, at £6 13 4d.; 

 Lidiard S. Laurence, at £9 6s. Bd.; and Esse Prior at £l. 

 The Prior is returned as having a particular yearly pension 

 from Dulverton of £3, and from Lidiard S. Laurence of 

 £1 6s. Bd.* 



In 1295, the Prior is stated to hold the vill of Wilde- 

 land, by a quarter of one knight's fee, of John de Hum- 

 fraville, who held it of the king in capite. 



In the 25th of Edward I, 1297, the Prior is returned in 

 the Parllamentary writs for the counties of Somerset and 

 Dorset, as holding lauds, &c., and similarly in ISOO.f 



On the 5th of November, 1308, the 2nd year of Edward 

 IL, the chapel of S. Mary Magdalene at Taunton was 

 constituted a vicarage. It had previously been served 

 by the Canons of the Priory Church, who continued to be 

 the rectors until the dissolution. The Ordination was 

 made at Taunton, by Antony de Bradeneye and Henry de 

 Chanyngton, Archdeacon of Taunton, the Commissioners 

 appointed by the Bishop for that purpose, on the Tuesday 

 after the feast of All Saints, and was confirmed by the 

 Bishop on the Wednesday after the feast of S. Martin, in 

 the year above mentioned. Walter Haselshaw was at that 

 time Bishop of Bath and Wells, being elected in 1302 and 

 dying 1312. I have transcribed the document from the 

 copy which exists among Dr. Hutton's extracts from the 

 Wells Registers, made by him in the seventeenth Century, 

 and preserved among his MSS. in the British Museum ; 



* Tax. Eccl. P. Nich. IV., pp. 152, lS3b, 198b, 204, 20-lb, 205, 205b. 

 t Pari. Writs, i., 858. 



