18 PAPEKS, ETC. 



detalued cluring the process of tlie investigation. The 

 Bishop's letter is dated at ^Yindsor, 9th September, 1281.* 



In 1290 was the famous Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV. 

 The Church of Boclonde was then valued at £5 6s. 8d ; 

 Perton, with its Chapel, at £53 6s. 8d. ; the Vicarage of 

 the same at £6 13s. 4d. ; and EUeworth, at £4 6s. Sd.f 



The favour of collecting fire wood froni the park of Neu- 

 ton, Perton, or Petherton, appears, as I have remarked, to 

 have been often contested. In the year 1290, the nuns were 

 obliged to petitlon the king in parliament with a view to 

 the restoration of their rights. They submitted that since 

 the battle of Evesham, A.D. 1265, they had been hindered 

 in their ancient privilege, and humbly solicited the king's 

 favour in the restitution of the same.J 



Richard de Plessetis, or de Placey, a descendant of 

 Richard de Wrotham ah'eady noticed, who died 20 Edw. 

 L, 1292, founded, about two years before his decease, a 

 perpetual chantry at Newton for the health of his soul and 

 the souls of his father and mother, and all his ancestors and 

 successors. For the endowment of the same, he granted to 

 William de Hilprinton, the intended chantry priest, and his 

 successors, in the chapel of S. Peter at Newton, a house in 

 which William de Grey, a former chaplain, lived aforetime, 

 and sevcral acres of land in Ivymore, Highmore, and 

 EUerhayc, together with the tithes of Newton and Pether- 

 ton Park, and right of common for six oxen and six heifers 

 in all places where he had common. The witnesses to this 

 charter were the Preceptor of Buckland, Sir Geoffrey de 

 Wrockshall, Sir John de Placetis, Peter de Hamme, and 

 John de Marisco.|l 



* Calendar of Letters, No. 1948. 



t Tax. Eccl. P. Nich. IV., pp. 198, 199. 



X Pet. in Pari, 18 Edw. I., n. 152, vol. i., 58. 



11 Cüllins. e llegist. Well. iii. C5. 



