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Edingdon Monastery. 



The next purchases made by the founder were from Edmund de 

 la Beche, Archdeacon of Berks: viz., Alvercote manor, near Burford, 

 on which was a charge of 8s. a year to the Earl of Shrewsbury's 

 manor of Bampton : Alwaldesbury, from Sir William de Goatacre, 

 Kt. : and Westwell (one hundred acres) from John Laundells, 

 subject to 20<s. a year to the Prior of St. John of Quenington or 

 Queenhampton, a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers in Gloucester- 

 shire (Val. Eccl. II., 142). 



1361. Sir John de Edingdon, Senior, (Knight) died. The Rector 

 and brethren by arrangement succeeded to the lands which he held 

 under Romsey Abbey, at Edingdon, Tynhide, Bratton, Coteridge, 

 Milbourne, Stoke, and Earlstoke. The Abbess, Isabel Camoys, 

 and the Convent of Romsey, granted license to Sir John de Eding- 

 don, J unior, Knight, to release them to the monastery, which he did 

 in this form : — " I John of Edyndon, Kt., at the request of William 

 Bishop of Winton, my uncle, and for the health of the soul of my 

 father, have given to John, Rector of Edyngdon, and the convent, 

 all my lands in Edyngdon [&c], to have and to hold for ever in free 

 alms.'"' Witnesses, William Fitzwaryn, Philip Fitzwaryn, Knights, 

 Nicholas Bonham, John de Roches, Thomas Gore, and others. 

 Dated at Edyngdon, 20th February, 36 Ed. III. (Ed. Regis- 

 ter). 



The lands in Edingdon parish thus derived from the founder's 

 brother, and belonging thenceforth to the Rector and brethren, were 

 for a long time called Edingdon Rectory Lands, to distinguish them 

 from such portion of the parish as the Abbess of Romsey continued 

 to hold till the Dissolution, and which were called Edingdon Rom- 

 sey 's. The monastery paid to the Abbess a chief rent of £3 6s. 8d. 

 per annum. 



1361. Bishop Edingdon held for the monastery five virgates of 

 land at Btjckland and Caneield, and Coleshill Manor, all in 

 Berks : also lands at Bratton, Highworth, and Esthorp. Re- 

 mainder to himself (I. p. M.). 



1361. A patent was granted for the manor and advowson of 

 Tormarton, Co. Gloucestershire, purchased by the founder from Sir 

 John Philibert, Kt., and for a rent of fourteen marks of silver out 



