By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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well as of nominating to any Churches or Chapels belonging to it. 

 After his death the patronage to be exercised by the Bonhommes 

 themselves. In 1365, after the Founder's death, the appropriation 

 and possession of Ediugdon Prebend was contested by one Thomas 

 Duncklent, clerk, Rector of Tredyngton, Cornwall : but ineffectually 

 (Eding. Cartulary) . 



North Bradley. The Church of St. Nicholas of North Bradley 

 having been heretofore annexed to Edingdon Prebend, its land and 

 tithes became henceforth impropriate to the house of Bonhommes. 

 The Rector of Edingdon Bonhommes continued to present to the 

 Chapelry or Vicarage of North Bradley from about 1351 to 1543, 

 when the Crown became patron by seizure. In 1545 John Owen, 

 Esq., then lord of the manor of South wick (in North Bradley), was 

 patron, probably only for the turn. In 1552, and since., Winchester 

 College. 1 



Some years ago there was still to be seen on glass in the east 

 window of North Bradley Church, the arms, A cross charged with 

 five roses, for the coat of Edingdon Monastery : the same as appears 

 in stone on Bishop Edingdon's work in Winchester Cathedral. There 

 was also at Bradley the name of " Thomas Elme/' Rector of Eding- 

 don Monastery, 1433 — 1450, in one of the south aisle windows : 

 showing perhaps the date either of the re-building or embellishment 

 of that Church. 



Some land at Ditchridge, near Box, was given, probably by the 

 bishop's patrons, the Cheney family. 



1354. Steeple, i.e., Staple, or Market, or East Lavington. 

 About this time Bishop William impropriated the Advowson, with 

 the Chapel of Gore, dependent upon it, to his monastery, which 

 continued to present to it till the Dissolution. One of the deeds in 

 the chartulary states that in 1368 (42 Ed. III.) the Bonhommes of 

 Edingdon purchased the Manor from Robert Forestall. They held 

 it of the Crown in capite, charged with 20s. a year to Devizes Castle, 



1 The Crown had taken North Bradley from the college, by exchange for Enf ord, 

 in 1544 : but by another exchange, in 1 Edward VI., it was again restored to 

 the college. North Bradley Church was charged with the payment of 12*. a year 

 to the Vicar of Steeple Ashton. 



