MYNCHIN BUCKLAND PKIORY, 75 



acres ; Wynsell Wood, 7 acres ; and hedgerows, 2 acres ; 

 with siindry reservations for the farmer of the demesne.* 



This was sliortly afterwards followed by tlie instrument 

 which the framers had in view. On the 30th of June, 1 544, 

 the king granted to his beloved and faithful cousin and coun- 

 cillor, William, Earl of Essex,and his beloved James Rokeby, 

 Esq., WiUiam Ibgrabe, Esq., and John Cokke, Edward 

 Eogers, and Edward Bmy , Esqrs., and their heirs, &c., for 

 the sum of £1049 11s. 2id. of lawful money of England, 

 the whole House and Site of the late monastery of ßuckland, 

 in the County of Somerset, and all its lands, meadows, pas- 

 tures and hereditaments, called or known by the name or 

 names of Fouretcne Acres, Newland, Purches, Stapleheys, 

 Eiden, Lobbis, Hary s, Horlocke Meade, Hurte ]\Ieade, Longe 

 Meade, and Sixe Acres Meade, with all their appurtenances, 

 then or lately in the tenure or occupation of the said Edward 

 Rogers or his assigns, in Bucklande, or Buckland Sororum, 

 parcel of the possessions of the said late monastery, and for- 

 merly in the hands, culture, and proper occupation of the late 

 Prioress of the late monastery of Buckland at the time of the 

 Dissolution. Also all those woods and lands called Eiden 

 Coppes and Wynsell Wood, containing by estimation ten 

 acres, with all their appurtenances in Buckland. Also all 

 the houses, buildings, granaries, stables, dovecots, gardens, 

 orchards, and lands whatsoever, within the site, sept, 

 boundary, circuit, and precinct of the said late monastery, 

 and all and singular commons, ways, paths, easements, 

 advantages, profits, and emoluments whatsoever in Buck- 

 land, ]\Iighelchurche, and Northpetherton, in any manner 

 appertaining. Also all the Eectory, and church, or chapel 

 of Mighelchurche, with its appurtenances ; and all and every 

 kind of tithes of green crops, corn, grain, hay, wool, lambs, 

 * Part, for Grants, Off. Aug. 



