52 PAPEßS, ETC. 



On tlic 20th of June, 1408, Jolin Newman was pre- 

 sented to the Church of Eonyngton.-' 



On the Ist of June, 1409, occurs Robert, already 

 noticecl as Prior.f 



On the 12th of August, 1413 (Colllnson copled from 

 Archer the erroneous clate, 1431), Prior Robert Newton 

 departed this life, and on the Ist of September Brother 

 Thomas de Ufcolme, was elected Prior. He was confirmed 

 in his office on the following day. Tliere were then 

 fourteen Canons in the House.f 



The injury alleged to be done to the trade of the river by 

 the mills at Bathpool was again the subject of judicial inves- 

 tigation in the year 1414. An Inquisition was held at 

 Taunton on the 5th of November, in that year, the 2nd of 

 King Henry V. The Jurors, Thomas Osborn, Robert 

 Grosse, Ahnaric atte Wythy, Robert BuUyng, William 

 SnyfFamor, Thomas Cachebar, John Haccombe, John 

 Alrych, John Dornet, Richard Fenbrygg, IMatthew Short, 

 and Robert Eysell, members of fumilies which have already 

 occurred in the course of this memoir, affirmed that a 

 certain Walter, the immediate predecessor of the then 

 Abbat of Glastonbury, had made a certain watercourse 

 adjoining the said Bathepolemylle so narrow with an 

 obstruction of timber and massive masonry, through the 

 midst of the channel of the river between Taunton and 

 Bryggewater, that the river craft — "vocat' Botes et 

 Trowys " — with their various freight, to wit, firewood, 

 timber, charcoal, pitch, salt, iron, lime, grain, ale, wine, 

 &c., rather a goodly list of Taunton requi'rements in 

 the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, could not reach 



* MS. Harl. C966, p. 14. 



t MS. Harl. 6966, p. 5. 



t MS. Harl. 6966, p. 30. Dr. Archer, e Eeg. Well. 



