404 Notes on the History of Wroicghton, 



Elleudune was a Winchester manor held for the support of the 

 monks, and is so described in Domesday. 



The existence of a Church at an even earlier date is proved by 

 the mention of a Church highway in the land limits of EUendune 

 in 956 A.D. (C.I). 1184), the same document which records King 

 Ead wig's gift of land at EUendune to JElfheah. 



The first record we have of the " clericus " or priest of Elyndone 

 is given under date 1304 in Sir Thomas Phillipp's Wilts Institutions, 

 when the King, in lieu of the Bishop of "Wynton," appointed 

 Theobaldus de Thurkedene as clericus ; but even earlier than this, 

 a Papal license of 1243 shows that the Prior and Brethren of 

 Winchester were called upon to administer the Church on their 

 property at Nether Werston. Nether or Lower Werston is at the 

 foot of a hill in Wroughton, still called Priors Hill, thereby confirm- 

 ing this interesting history. 



In 1284, from Vol. 3. of the Calendar of Charter Rolls, we learn 



that the Bishop of Winchester held the advowsons of Elyndon, 



and in 1285 among the manors belonging to the Bishop is included 



Wourfton, spelt Wertona in 1300, wliich certainly refers to the 



same Lower Wroughton. 



Pope Nicholas Taxation^ of A.D. 1293 shows that a pension of £5 

 was yearly paid from the Church of Elyndon to the Prior of S. 

 Swithin, Winchester ; which pension is thus referred to in the Valor 

 Eccl. of Henry VIII. under Elyndon, "Anthony Barker theEector, 

 affirmed that he paid to the Abbot fs^c^ of S. [Swithin of Winchester, 

 for a yearly pension £5." 



1 Pope Nicholas' Taxation, A.D. 1293. 





Taxatio bonorum spiritualium Archi'natuumBerk' et Wiltes 





taxatio 



Decima 



Ecclesia de Ehndone 33. 6. 8 



3. 6. 



8 



Pensio Prioris Sancta Swithin in eadem 2. 0. 



0. 10. 







Pensio Monachorum de Briaco in eadem 2. 0. 



0, 4. 







Vicaria in eadem 4. 6. 8 



0. 8; 



8 



Taxatio bonorum temporalium Arcliidiaconatum Berk et Wiltes 





Elyndone Abbas Teukesbur' 10. 0. 10 



1. 0. 



1 



IN ether werston Prior Wynton' 23. 3. 4 



2. 6. 



4 



Wykelescote Abbattissa de Lacock 2. 10. 



0. 5. 







Quedhampton Prior de Wottone in 0. 10. 







Bradenstok 



0. 1. 







