By Rev. C. S. Buddie. 



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Chapter of Winchester. In the letters patent, beautifully illumi- 

 nated, which are preserved at Winchester, it is stated, "We also 

 grant to the said Dean and Chapter . . . the Kectories and 

 Churches of Duryngton, Wanborough, Aldebourne and Alton in 

 Wiltshire . . . formerly belonging to the Prior and Convent 

 of the Monastery of Ambresburie " — " also sundry Manors, lands 

 &c. in the said parish of Duryngton." The mention of manors was 

 surplusage. There was a reservation of 6s. 8d. annually to the 

 farmer of the Eectory of Duryngton for his living. 



In the Valores of the Cathedral estates is this entry : — 



" Rectoria de Durington in Com. Wiltes : valet in Firma Rectorie 



ibidem cum omnibus oblationibus emolumentis una cum omnibus tenementis 

 et aliis proficeis cum suis pertinentiis eidem Rectorise pertinentibus, dimissis 

 Johanni Bolton et Johanni Huddesfield et ass. suis per indenturam datam 

 12 Mar. anno R. Henr. VIII. 12 1110 ad Term. 41 annorum, reddendo inde xx n ." 



Then follow deductions, 6s. 8d. for the lessees as stated above ; and 

 10s. to the chaplain curate serving the Parish Church of Durrington 

 " for his living." Probably when the lease was granted one of the 

 Amesbury chaplains went out to serve Durrington : but after the 

 suppression the fee of 1 0s. became an absurdity. 



The lease would expire early in Elizabeth's reign : and some 

 time in that reign Philip Poore became the lessee of the Dean and 

 Chapter. From him it passed to Mr. Waldorne, of "Alborne," 

 (probably Aldbourne,) who held it in 1608. The terrier of that 

 year does not mention the curate's stipend ; the lessee had all the 

 tithe : four acres of meadow land, one hundred and twenty acres 

 of arable, and pasture for three hundred sheep. In 1650, according 

 to the Parliamentary inquisition, the impropriation was worth 

 £220, the old rent £20, and of course there would be a septennial 

 fine : and the lessee was to provide for the cure, and pay the curate 

 £20 a year, witli a sack of wheat and a sack of barley. In this 

 account William Kent appears as possessor of the impropriation. 

 This was William Kent, of Boscombe. He had been in arms for 

 the King in the early part of the war, and in 1643 had ridden in 

 Sir Geo. Vaughan's troop. He had also served in what were 

 called the Illegal Assizes in 1644. But in 1645 he compounded 



