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Edingdon Monastery. 



in increasing' his means of endowment. For this he appears to 

 have made very great exertions : not only by large purchases of 

 his own, but by obtaining assistance from the piously-disposed in 

 the neighbourhood. The first step was to enlarge the site,, by 

 obtaining' out of the Abbess of Romsey's land an addition to the 

 churchyard. This deed is given in Madox's Eormulare, p. 165 : — 



"July 1352 [26 Ed. III.]. 



" Indenture between the Abbess of Romseye of the one part, and Walter 

 Scarlet, "Warden of the Chantry in the Prebendal Church of Edyndon newly 

 founded by William of Edyndon, Bishop of Winchester, and the Chaplains of 

 the said Chantry, of the other part : Witnesseth that the Abbess hath given to the 

 said Warden, &c, half an acre and 10 perch of arable contiguous to the Church 

 of Edyndon ; and 1^ acre and 24 perch of meadow contiguous to the Manse or 

 Close of the Warden, for its enlargement, in Free Alms, in exchange for Half an 

 acre and 10 perch and 1^ acre and 24 perch of meadow in Edyndon. Dated at 

 Eomeseye in the Chapter House of the Abbess and Convent, Monday before the 

 Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula. 26 Edw. III." 



The Rectory of Buckland, near Faringdon, with the Chapel of 

 Burcote, annexed. This was purchased by Bishop William of 

 Edingdon from Sir Thomas Besils, and then given to the house. 1 

 Out of this the priory paid 40<s. a year to the crown on account of 

 the dissolved Priory of Wallingford. At the Dissolution it was 

 annexed to the see of Bristol. One of the Buckland deeds in Eding- 

 don chartulary, dated Southwerk, 18th June, 1353, states that "the 

 number of chaplains being originally three, the Bishop intended to 

 add three more as soon as the profits of the Church of Edingdon 

 should be received [this had been done] ; and three more as soon 

 as those of Buckland Church." It had now become nine. 



1352. Coteridge. Here and at Southwick, 40s. in rent of land 

 that had belonged to the Cheney family, passed into the hands of 

 John de Edingdon, Kt., and through him to the bishop's foundation: 

 and at the same time the mills at Sweltenham (or Swetnam). 



A. D. 1354. Edingdon Prebendal Rectory. The appropriation 

 of this, lately granted to the bishop for his chantry, was now con- 

 firmed to him for his monastery. He reserved to himself for life 

 the right of appointing the superior or Hector of the new priory, as 



1 Dr. Kawlinson's Collections : quoted in Lysons's Berks, p. 253. 



