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prlests and clerks, and for the rest of his time shonld bc at 

 the Order of the Prioress ; so that the Preceptor should 

 have an allowance of five marcs for the table of the said 

 priest, and also of the one brother who celebrated the mass 

 of Elessed ^lary, and also three Shillings at the feast of S. 

 Michael for the clerk of the chapel.* The calm which 

 this arrangement produced was at best but temporary, and 

 we shall soon have to notice some evidences of the feeling 

 with which it was regarded by the Preceptor and his 

 brethren, by whom the establishment of the neighbouring 

 Community was clearly considered a grievance of no com- 

 mon Order ! 



In or about the year 1270, the Hospitallers of Boclandc 

 were returned among other Somersetshire landowners as 

 holding five virgates of land, of the annual valiie of fifty 

 Shillings. t 



In 1276, the Sisters are stated on the verdict of a jury 

 to have common of pasture for eight oxen and two cows in 

 a place of forty acres situated in Eolneston.J 



Shortly after this date the chapel of Kynmeresdou was 

 sacrilegiously broken into and plundered. The crime was 



charged lipon a certain Robert de Bo , (the MS. 



is imperfect and the name cannot be regained) before the 

 Justices Itinerant, but he was happy enough to clear him- 

 self to the satisfaction of his judges A letter is extant 

 from Eobert Bishop of Bath to the King, " excellentissimo 

 domino suo domino Edwardo," wishing him health " in Eo 

 per Quem reges regnant et regnorum omnium gubernacula 

 sustentantur," and soliciting the prompt restoration of the 

 possessions and goods of the accused, which had been 



' * MS. in Off. Arm. L. 17, f. 153 b. Appendix, No. XllL 



t Test, de Nevill, f. 759. 

 t Hilar. an. 1 Edw. I. de Jur. et Ass. rot. 14. Abbrev. Plac. p. 189. 

 VOL. X., 1860, PAKT II. C 



