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present burying ground from the garden of the 

 manor house, are the only vestiges of this ancient 

 edifice. At the time of the dissolution, there were 

 in this priory about nine religious ; whose estate 

 was valued at ,25. 17s. 6d. per annum. The site 

 of this house was granted in 35 of Henry VIII., in 

 the year 1545, to Francis Pool : to whom afterwards 

 in the snme year the king granted license to alienate 

 the manor of Wykeham, with all belonging to it in 

 Marton, Wykeham, Huston, and Hutton, to Richard 

 Hutchinson and his heirs ; but 39 of Henry VIII., 

 1546, the rectory of Wykeham, with all the tithes 

 of demesne lands, were granted by the king to Wil 

 liam Ramsden ; to whom soon after he gave license 

 to alienate it to the said Richard Hutchinson and 

 his heirs, in whose family it has since remained ; 

 though the name of Hutchinson was changed to that 

 of Langley, by the grandfather of the late Richard 

 Langley, Esq. 



This priory, the church, cloisters, and 24 houses, 

 having been casually burnt down, together with all 

 their books, vestments, chalices, &c,, king Edward 

 III. relieved the nuns from the payment of 3. 12s. 

 7d. per ann. for 20 years to come ; which they used 

 to pay to him for lands held by them in the honour 

 of Pickering, part of the duchy of Lancaster, dated 

 7 of Nov. 1327, 1 of Edward III. Here were six 

 prioresses ; the first named Emma de Dunstan, who 

 was elected in 1281, and resigned in 1301 ; and the 

 last was Catherine Nandick, instituted in 1508.* 



The arms of the Langleys are paly of six, ar- 



* Burton's Moiiasticon. p. 255. 



