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ample cartulaiy. Among the more distant, although 

 situated in the same county, were the valuable manor of 

 DulvertoD, which has so often been the subject of remark, 

 the vills of Broggelesnole and Levercote aud the hamlets 

 of Telchete and la Merse, mentioned in the Perambulation 

 of the Forest of Exmore, dated on the 22ud of March, 

 1342,* and the lands of Staverdale and Thorn-CoflSn. In 

 Devon there were the Churches of Willand and Clanna- 

 borough, and lands at Woodham, Godesaltr, Prior Merston, 

 and Monksbeare. In Dorset there was Buckham-Weston. 

 The whole constituted a spacious domain, the beauty and 

 fertility of which it would have been hard to parallel. 



With regard to the revenues of the House, which were 

 proportionably considerable, some curious information may 

 be offered. At the time of the Valor of Pope Nicholas 

 IV., 1288-1291, the temporalties belonging to the Com- 

 munity within the Archdeaconry of Taunton were taxed, 

 according to the Memoranda Roll of the 34th of Edward 

 III., 1360, at cccxvs. ; namely, Nyenhide, xx\s.; Spaxton, 

 xiijs. 4c?. ; Dulverton, xxvjs. ; Thornlockeston, hixs. viijV. ; 

 Northperton, xxs. ; Stoke, xxxs. ; Westmonekton, xs. ; 

 Lydiard S. Laurence, xxs. ; and Esse Prior' s, C5. Some 

 time subsequently a commission was issued, bearing date 

 the 26th of January, 1341, and addressed to certain Asses- 

 sors and Venditors, who were thereby instructed to levy 

 the Ninth of com, wool, and lambs in every parish, for the 

 maintenance of the king's wars and the good keeping of 

 his realm, according to the aforesaid Valor. They were 

 directed to take inquisition upon oath of certain Jurors re- 

 sident in evcry parish as to the true value of the Ninth. 

 The returns which they made State at the same time the 



* Per. For. de Exmore, ad Adam, de Domerham, Eist. Glast, j. 193, 194. 



