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de Somerford Magna " is put down as worth £6 13s. 4d., and the 

 tenth as 13s. 4<£, while the " Capella de parva Somerford " is valued 

 at £10, and its tenth at £1. In the " Nonarum Inquisitiones," 14th 

 year of Edward III., the value of the benefice is again given as 

 £6 13-9. 4<£ We are also told that belonging to the rectory there is 

 a messuage with outhouses and a garden, half a virgate of land 

 and two acres of pasture, worth 13s. M. a year; the tenths of hay 

 being worth £1, and the other dues 25s. The parishioners value 

 the ninth of corn, wool, and sheep, which was being levied by 

 Edward III. to meet his expenditures in the Scotch and French 

 wars, at only £6 from the last year, on the plea that their corn 

 crops had been seriously injured by the weather. Passing on to 

 the time of Henry VIII., in the "Valor Ecclesiasticus," Henry Kussell, 

 the Eector, affirms that the living is worth in the gross from land 

 and tithes, £13 5s. 8d., and after payment of 14s. 2d. to the Arch- 

 deacon, £12 13s. 5d. clear. At the same time we learn that the 

 Priory of St. Mary at Kynton received 42s. 4d. clear out of the 

 parish. The list of Eectors dates from 1323, when the patron, 

 John Maltravers, presents Adam cle Norton. The next presentation, 

 in 1324, is made by the Prioress of Kynton. After that, however, 

 for more than two hundred years, the patronage was in the hands 

 of the Maltravers, passing from them apparently with the manor 

 to John Ye we, who presents in 1605 and then in 1637 to Eobert 

 Jason. In 1676, after a law suit, Eobert Jason establishes his 

 right, which had been questioned by Edmund Bruning. When the 

 Hawkins' trustees sold the manor property Edmund Wayte pur- 

 chased the advowson. The succeeding incumbents obtained their 

 preferment by purchase until in 1704 Eichard Hutchins, Fellow of 

 Exeter College, bought the advowson and made it over by deed of 

 gift to the college, which is still the patron. The property of the 

 rectory is described very completely in three terriers, which are 

 in the Eegistry at Salisbury. The first of these is headed : — 



" Terrier and true report of the glebe land that belongeth unto the Kectory 

 of Somerford Magna taken by the Churchwardens and Sidesmen of the said 

 parish the fourth of October, an. dom., 1608," 



and signed " Eichard Pitman, Thomas Winkworth." It begins : — 



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