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in the Third Edition of Hutchins. I will, therefore, only further 

 remark that the monks of Montacute were not very faithful 

 trustees, for, though the founder provided for the maintenance of 

 13 monks in the cell of Holne, only two were resident there when 

 Leland wrote. The picturesque figures of the " Holy Friars" are 

 no longer seen at Holme. Requiems have ceased to be repeated 

 there and the de Lincolns have been forgotten. The ancient 

 church, which was the church of the parish, has been long since 

 swept away. But the inhabitants in our own day are fortunate in 

 having had a landlord more careful of their living souls than the 

 monks of Montacute seem to have been of the souls and wishes of 

 their deceased benefactors. Mr. Bond, the present owner of Creech 

 Grange, during his tenure of the property at Holme, rebuilt the 

 church at his own expense and endowed it with the tithes of the 

 parish, which had been impropriated by the monks of Montacute to 

 their own use. Some of the Norman arches, which are no doubt 

 contemporary with the foundation of the monastery, now decorate 

 the chapel at Creech Grange, having been removed thither in 1726 

 by Mr. Denis Bond, who built the chapel out of the remains of the 

 Priory Church. 



Carta Henrici I. de concessione terre de Holna. 



H. Rex Anglie Rogero Episcopo Sarisburie et Warino vicecomite et 

 omnibus baronibus francis et Anglis de Dorseta salutem. Sciatis quod 

 concede Alureclo de Lincolnia habere in feodo terrain de Holna sicut 

 ei vendidit Grimaldus medicus. T Rogero Episcopo Sarisburie et Ran. 

 Cancellario et Will. Tancvilla et Johe Baioc. Apud Wyntoniam. 



Carta Roberti de Lincolnia de donatione terre que dicitur Holne ad 

 inhabitandum et monachos ibidem constituendum et sustinendutn. 



Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Robertas de Lincolnia instinctu 

 divino provocatus domuni religionis in honorem Dei construere disponens, 

 dono Deo et ecclesie sancti Petri de Monte acuto et monachis ibidem 

 Deo servientibus terrain meam que dicitur Holna in elemosinam perpetuo 

 duraturam quatenus ibi ordo et religio monastic! ordinis tresdecim 

 videlicet monachorum habeatur, cum Deus omnipotens res et substanciam 

 per me vel per heredes meos monasterio predicto contulerit, Hanc 



