MYNCIIIN BUCKLAND PKIORY. 7 



numerous donatlons, it appears that togetlier with the 

 Church of Pereton (Petherton), and all its dependent 

 chapels and thelr appurtenances, the same William de 

 Erlegh gave the Church of Chedsey (Chedzoy), with all 

 the right which the Hospital had or ought to have in the 

 Church of Poulet, with the Chapel of Huntworth, the 

 Chapel of Earl's Neweton, the Chapel of Thurlakeston 

 (although this assuredly was either then or vevy shortly 

 afterwards appropriated to the Priory of Taunton), the 

 Chapel of Sirdeston, and the Chapel of King's Newe- 

 ton; also the Church of Bekynton, the Church of 

 Kynmersdon, and the Church of Sirston, with, it is added, 

 other lands and benefactions besides.* 



It appears that Walter was the first and possibly the 

 only Prior of the House. The chronicler just quoted is 

 silent on the facfc, and indeed the whole account is not a 

 little obscure. But, on tiu-ning to other MS. sources for 

 Information, I find a Walter Prior of Bokeland, or Bokland, 

 as witness in two documents belonging to this period. One 

 of these sets forth that Alan de Furvell, or Fervell, gave 

 to the Church of S. Andrew of Wells the Church of 

 Cudeworth with the Chapel of CnoUe, to be a perpetual 

 prebend of that Church.f The other is a confirmation by 

 Maude Chandos of a donation of Silvanus to the Church 

 of S. Mary of Stowey, at its dedication, of two acres of 

 land, and of a later donation to the same Church of an 

 acre and a half in Betescumbe ; and also of a donation of 

 Eoger de Paris to the same Church at the aforesaid dedi- 

 cation of an acre of land in Bueli.J Probably, as he is not 

 mcntioncd in conncction with the subscquent troublcs, he 



* MS. in Off. Arnior. L. 17, fol. 153b. Appendix, No. IL 



t MS. Harl. C9G8, p. 40. Reg. Well., f. 3S. 



t MS. Uarl. G9G8, Cart. p. 21. 



