416 Notes on the History of Wroiighton. 



paid to Briaco from 1127 down to the 15th century, which 

 only ceased on the dissolution of the Alien Houses, when Eton 

 College was founded. It would be. to say the least, a curious 

 coincidence if the old Elyndon pension to Briaco could thus be 

 finally traced to the tithe on " Bryan's Acre " of the Eton College 

 leases. 



Canon Jackson (in a note to page 369 Aubrey and Jackson, 

 Wiltshire Collections) says that "some rents that had belonged to 

 a Priory, belonged in 1535 to Eton College," and the fact of this 

 date being twenty-five years earlier than that of the first Eton 

 College lease is of great interest. 



One other fact, though unexplained, is worth recording. 



It will be remembered ^ that at the time when Henry the 

 Eighth's Valor Eccl. was made, the Eector of Elyndon was still 

 paying the old due of £5 to Winchester, and a new payment is 

 recorded of 26s, M. to St. rrideswides,^ in Oxford, whilst the old 

 pension to Briaco is not mentioned at all. But this clearly is a 

 mistake, because the St. Frideswide Cartulary, as printed, contains 

 no mention of Elyndon, and as this monastery had property at 

 Edington, or Edinton, a hamlet of Hungerford, it is possible that 

 the two names were then confused, or misspelt. 



^ Valor Ucclesiasticus, Henry VIII. Elyndon. Anth. Barker Rector 



affirms value to be total £3V 18 8 



Out of this lie pays to Abbot fsic) Winton ... 5 



" et solut' Collegio Sancti Frieswid' in Oxon' for yearly 



pension 16 8 



2 St. Frideswide was suppressed in 1529 by Wolsey to found and endow 

 his new cardinal college of Christ Church, Oxford. 



