ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



the time of Domesday, and was granted the prebend of Upavon in the 

 cathedral which entitled him to a stall in the choir and a voice in the 

 cathedral chapter."* The abbot of St. Mary Montebourg, who had a cell at 

 Loders, likewise conveyed to the chapter about the year i 2 1 3 his churches of 

 Powerstock. and Fleet,"^ and in return was allowed to retain the church of 

 Loders and the chapel of Radipole as a prebend in Salisbury."* The church 

 of Sherborne appears from the foundation of the cathedral to have constituted 

 a prebend in Salisbury, held by the abbot in virtue of his office."' A dispute 

 arising early in the thirteenth century respecting the claim of the dean of 

 Salisbury to the church of Frome Whitfield, as attached to his prebend of 

 Charminster, was peaceably settled by an agreement whereby the church 

 itself was annexed to the prebend, but the patronage vested in William de 

 Whitfield, Matilda his wife, and their heirs who, on a vacancy, should 

 present a candidate for institution to the dean and his successors."* By an 

 arrangement in 1225 certain pensions out of the churches of Tarrant 

 Keynston, Combe, Somerford, and Lulworth were reserved to the priory of 

 Merton, the church of Tarrant Keynston at the special request of the prior and 

 canons being assigned to the perpetual use of the nuns of Tarrant, who in return 

 for this grant were charged to offer special prayers every Sunday for the 

 brethren of Merton as for their benefactors."^ In 1224 the church of 

 Bishop's Caundle was made over to the ordinary by the prior and canons of 

 Breamore,"" The churches of Stourpaine and Burstock were placed by the 

 prior and convent of Christchurch (Twyneham) in 1 244 at the disposition 

 of the bishop who the following year ordained that the church of Fleet, 

 previously resigned by the abbot of St. Mary Montebourg, should be appro- 

 priated to the convent of Christchurch, the church of Stourpaine to the 

 chapter of Salisbury, while the church of Burstock was assigned to the 

 maintenance of the bridge at Salisbury, all three churches being made exempt 

 from the jurisdiction of the ordinary and the archdeacon, the bishop in his 

 deed stipulating that they should be ' honestly ' and fitly served and the cure 

 of souls in no way neglected."^ 



With reference to the question of parochial endowments, instances are 

 not wanting to illustrate the liberty of large landowners to bestow tithes of their 

 lands at will on one place or another. A deed of Ralph de St. Leger about 

 the year 1217 recites that he has granted to Roger, chaplain of Petersham, 

 within the parish of Wimborne, his oratory or free chapel of Todber, together 

 with all tithes of his demesne &c., as an endowment. "'^ Sir Bartholomew 

 de Turbervill, by deed in 1242, attached all tithes of his demesne at 

 Winterborne Turberville, which he declared had been always bestowed by 

 his ancestors and himself on whomsoever they desired, to the prebend of 

 Charminster and Bere Regis, in consideration of which grant he obtained a 

 licence for a private chantry or chapel for the use of himself, his household 



"* Reg. of St. Osmund (Rolls Ser.), i, 71. "" Ibid, i, 225. 



'°° Ibid, i, 226. The abbot of Bee, to whose abbey belonged a small cell at Povington reckoned as 

 parcel of the priory of Ogbourne (Wilts.), held the prebend of Ogbourne constituted in the cathedral by 

 Bishop le Poor in 1208 ; ibid, i, 189. 



""Ibid. 249. '"'Ibid. 255. "» Ibid, ii, 26. 



"° Sarum Chart, and Doc. (Rolls Sen), 163-6. 



'" The canons of Christchurch were ordered to pay the sum of a mark yearly to the archdeacon of 

 Dorset by way of compensation for the loss of jurisdiction involving dues ; ibid. 291-3. 



'"Ibid. 81. 



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