414 Notes on the History of Wroughton. 



This we know from the following sources : — 



From a note to " Ministers' accounts imder Possessions of Alien 

 Priories" we learn that a pension was being paid in 1127 by 

 Elyndon Church to "Minster Lovel a cell of Ivry Abbey." 



From Pope Nicholas Taxatio in 1293 we know that the Prior of 

 Minster Lovel received " de pensione monachorum de Briaco in 

 Ecclesia de Elyndone in decanatu Crek. 1. 0. 0." — being half of 

 original pension of £2.^ 



Tanner, in " Notitia Monastica," states, under Minster Lovel 

 Alien Priory, " The Church of this place being given to the Abbey 

 of St. Mary de Ibreio or Yvri by Maud the wife of William Lovel,, 

 before 8 Johannis, it became an alien priory of Benedictine Monks, 

 cell to that foreign monastery, which after the suppression of these 

 houses was granted to Eaton (sic) College 1 Ed. lY." 



This brings us down to the time of the foundation of Eton College, 

 which was endowed by Henry VI. in 1440 with money obtained 

 by the suppression of alien houses, and which, as we see above, was 

 benefitted by the suppression of Minster Lovel as a cell of Ivry in 

 1461 (1 Edward IV.). Knowing this, it is interesting to find that 

 the Governors of Eton College held leases going back to Queen 

 Elizabeth's reign, from 27th October, 1560, down to 1796, of land 

 called in every lease " Bryan s Acre," or Bryan s tithes," Since 

 1796, however, all reference to the property has disappeared from 

 the college books,^ and from this time forward it is included in the 

 Charterhouse property. 



^ Pope Nicholas Taxatio, A.D. 1293. See note to p. 404 above. 



^ Letter from H. B. Dyke, Clerk to the Governing Body of Eton College 

 " March 14th, 1904. 



" The only deeds I can find (on the Elcombe portion of the property) 

 consist of a series of counterpart Leases going back to Queen Elizabeth's 

 reign, the most recent being that of 1796. ... In all the Leases 

 the property is described as follows : — All that their portion of tithes 

 called Bryan's Acre, otherwise Bryan s Tithes, to be gathered in the 

 fields of Elcombe . . . 



"I can find no reference to anything after the year 1796, and no 

 receipts are entered in the account book of the College after the year 

 1799 — in fact all reference to the property disappears ..." 



