40 PAPEKS, ETC. 



and Walter atte Withie. Although the verdict was 

 favourable, tlie gift appears to have been over-ruled, and 

 the proceedings ordered to be null and vold.* This may 

 account for the obscurlty whicli envelopes the history of 

 the House, and which a long search among the Kecords has 

 not availed to dispeh Local tradition, which is always 

 valuable, asserts that a Monastery was situated at a 

 short distance westward from the Castle, in a place still 

 called Paul's Field, near the Crescent ; but it is pro- 

 bable that, if the Cannellte House were ever actually 

 founded and occupied the site in question, it was but of 

 short-lived duration, and that long before the general 

 Dissolution in the sixteenth Century it had ceased to exist. 

 I may add that Walter de Mcryet died on the 18th of" 

 May, 1345. 



A licence for celebrating morning mass every day in the 

 chapel of S. INIary Magdalene was granted on the 19th of 

 March, 134 1-2. t 



It appears that Walter de Monyngton, one of the 

 founders of Bathpool Mills, was confirmed Abbat of 

 Glastonbury, at Taunton, on the 7th of November, 

 13424 



On the 29th of January, 1343-4, William de Ayssheleigh 

 was presented to the vicarage of Kyngeston. || 



In 1346, Taunton had a new Prior. Eobert de 

 Messyngham died in the beginning of April ; and Thomas 

 Cok, a commission on the matter of whose confirmation 

 Avas dated at Dogmersfeld on the 6th of that month, 



* Inquis. ad q. d. 17 Fdw. III. (2. n.) n. 43. Eott. Orig. 17 Edvv. III. n. 13. 

 t MS. Harl. 69G5, p. 148. 

 t MS. Harl. 6965, p. 155. 

 !| MS. Harl. 6965, p. 165. 



