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his capital messuage callecl Buckelond Priors, with its 

 appurtenances, and two ganlens, two orehards, tA>'o hnndrcd 

 acres of arable land, tliii'tj-six acres of nieadow, seventy- 

 thrce acres of pastnre, and two acres of land covered with 

 "Nvater — the Fonds, I presume, to wliich I drcw attention in 

 the beginning of the History — witli thelr appurtenances, in 

 Buckland Priors and Coglod, in the County of Somerset, 

 holden of the King in capite. Also to the aforesaid John 

 Cnffe and John Tynbery special license was given to 

 appropriate the same. The grant was dated at Westminster, 

 the loth of Febrnary, 1548.* 



On the 4th of July, 1608, Edward Ilogei's, son of George 

 E,ogei's, of Canington, sohl to Sir Henry Hawley the site, 

 circuit and precinct of the late !Monastery or Priory of 

 Buckland, with its appurtenances.f The nianor, according to 

 Collinson,! was aubsequently sold by the Ilawleys to John 

 Baker, Esq., -Iveceiver Genei'al of the land-tax in the 

 County of Somerset, whose son Christopher sold it to 

 George Parker, of Boringdon, in the County of Devon, 

 Esq., and his decendant, John Parker, Baron Boringdon, 

 to the family of the prcsent possessor. 



Thus have we traced the history of this interesting spot, 

 from its original selection for the abode of a Keligious Com- 

 munity, through ages of dutiful attention to the grand 

 objects for the advancement of -which it was so chosen, 

 of varying fortune and frequent struggle, down to its 

 violent alienation from those objects and its compulsory 

 Separation from the Society with whicli they w^ere con- 



* Ori?. 2 Edw. VT. p. 1. rot. xlv. Pat. 2 Edw. VL,p. 1, in. (11) 35. 

 Add. MS. B.M. 6307, f. 30. Appcndi.x, No. XXIV. 

 t Trin. Eec. 9 Jac. i. rot. cxii. 

 t Vol. III. p. 99. 



