MYNCUIN BUCKLAND PRIOIIY. 31 



presentecl Eobert atte Crosse, Priest, to the Chiirch of 

 Fydyngton on the 25tli of June, 1354. The institution is 

 dated at Wylescomb, the 17th of the following month.* 



The pension of 20s. due from the Church of Bekyngton 

 had to be recovered by law in 1353. A writ was addressed 

 for this purpose to John de Werdyr, the parsou, on the 

 12th of July in that year.f 



In connexion with Buckland, it will not be amiss to 

 repeat that Eoger Arundell, sometime lord of the manor 

 of Halse, gave that manor, in the year 1374, to the 

 Prior of S. John of Jerusalem in England, on condition 

 that he and bis successors should find and maintain a chapel 

 at Halse, and a chaplain to celebrate Dlvine Service for ever 

 in the same for the souls of Roger, bis predecessors, and all 

 the faithful departed. A jury found the facts aforesaid, 

 and that the manor, whicb was held of the king in capite, 

 as of bis manor of Hampstede Mareschall, by military 

 Service, was of the annual value in all issues of £20. The 

 same jury found that Eoger Toreil had given to the 

 Sector of the Church of Mulverton 20 acres of arable 

 land, called Mynsterlond in Mulverton, to find a chaplain 

 who should celebrate Divine Service three days every week 

 in the chapel of Torelles Preston. The land was held of 

 the king in capite, by military Service, and was worth in 

 all issues 16s. per annum. The Jurors were Bartholomew 

 Baghey, Adam Londe, Eobert Ladeil, Walter Cherl, 

 Eichard Hokeday, John Holm, Benedict Flamesy, Eobert 

 Hewere, John Garland, Thomas Clyve, Gilbert Stenes, 

 and Eobert Skilgate ; and the inquest was taken at 

 Taunton, before Adam atte More, the king's eschaetor, 

 on Wcdncsday, the 8th of INIarch, 1374. A writ of 



* Hyll Cartulary, rp. 52, 53. 

 t MS. llarl. Ct)G5, p. 257. 



