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acquainted : — at Thele, in Devonslilre, oue carucate of land, 

 of the value of 40s. ; at Prunslee, one carucate, valued at 

 40s. ; at Kynemersdon, one carucate, valued at 50s. Of 

 assessed rent, tliey are stated to own 90 marcs, but it is 

 added that hardly so many as 80 are levied. The following 

 clim'ches also are mentioued as approprlated to them: — The 

 church of Pederton, of the value of 50 marcs ; the church 

 of Kynemersdon, of the value of 20 marcs ; and that of 

 Bromfeld, valued at £1 0. All of which, is the conclusion 

 forcibly impressed upon the treasurer, are insufficient to 

 provide for the maintenance of the Sisters and that of their 

 servants, together with the repairs of their bulldings, their 

 dress, and other necessaries, apart from the help of friends 

 and elemosynary payments.* It is indeed clear that a 

 Community of fifty nuns, with their servants, although they 

 did not afterwards, or pcrhaps ofteu, amount to half 

 so many, would be very inadequately maintained out 

 of the funds thus described as being at their disposal, and 

 that they would require the assistance of powerful patrons 

 to enable them to support a bare existence. 



From Hidon, a limb of Temple Combe, the same record 

 informs us that they had 3 marcs per annum for a tene- 

 ment of theirs- there.f This, as we have already noticed, 

 was given them by Prior Thomas L'Archer, who died in 

 1329. 



I may here place on record that William Eedmor was 

 presented to the Church of Hethfeld by Philip de Thame, 

 Prior of England, on the 4th of February, 1348.$ It 

 would appear that he did not long retain his benefice ; 

 for John de Donne, Eector of the Church of Hethfeld, 



* Hosp. in Engl. pp. 17—20. 



t Hosp., p. 205. 



I MS. Harl. 69G5, p. 201. 



