88 Some Account of the Parish of MonMon Farleigh. 



lodgings with buttery, pantry, cellar, latching, larder and pantry 

 thereto attached/' also " the hostelry, the great gate entering into 

 the court with the lodging over the same, the abbot's stable, bake- 

 house, brew-house, and slaughter-house, the almry, barn, dairy- 

 house, the great barn, the malting-house, the ox-house, the barton- 

 gate." • 



And, on the other hand, amongst " buildings deemed to be super- | 

 fluous/' I find "the church, with chappels, cloister, chapter-house, \ 

 misericord, the two dormitories, the infirmary, with chappells and I 

 lodgings within the same, the convent-kitching, the library, the old 

 hostelry, the chamberer's lodging, the^new hall, the old parlor, the 

 cellarer's lodging, the poultry-house, and all other houses not re- j 

 served/' i 



So, whatever other buildings might or might not be reserved, all 

 ecclesiastical buildings were at least condemned to destruction. 



Following "this manner of suppression " our ecclesiastical buil- j 

 dings would be, and were, I think, totally uprooted, whilst the j 

 secular buildings were retained and, judging by the description in the 

 lease of 1548, they must have been numerous, and, in the case o£ 

 the house, of considerable size. 



The manor was, as we have seen, bestowed in the first instance 

 upon the Earl of Hertford, afterwards the Protector Somerset, but 

 it would seem that he very soon found other manors, those of Rams- 

 bury, Baydon, &c, more to his liking, and so, not without some 

 degree of gentle violence it would seem, he gave our manor house 

 and property in exchange to John Salcot, alias Capon, then Bishop 

 of Salisbury. 8 



I have already quoted so much of the deed of A. D. 1638, as was 

 material for establishing the site of the manor house, but there are 

 other parts of the deed which are worthy of preservation, because 

 they shew the size of the house, and the exact properties of which 

 within ten years of the dissolution the manor was made up, and are 

 curious as evidence of the monkish verbiage, which had taken the 



1 Burnet's Kecords, No. 5, Pt. I, Book III., p. lxvii.. 

 2 Fasti Ecclesise Sarisberiensis. — Jones, p. 107. 



