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Edingdon Monastery. 



He was the owner also of Penley's, now Penleaze, near Westbury, 

 where Hoke-wood was given to the monastery. 



1363. 37 Ed. III. Some tenements at Conington and Shortes- 

 den, in Co. , were granted by patent. 



Lands in Escote (Eastcott, in the parish of Urchfont) were, 

 purchased by Bishop Edingdon from Henry Rolweston, together 

 with the right of presentation to the chapel there. Out of this 

 estate, Edingdon Priory paid £3 7*. Sd. a year to Wilton Abbey 

 (Yal. Eecl.). There was formerly a chapel at Escote, to which Sir 

 Thomas de Ashton had presented down to the year 1322. Edington 

 Monastery presented from about 1358, in which year (though the 

 date is not given in the Wilts Institutions) one Thomas de Aylesbury, 

 probably a relative of John of Aylesbury, first Rector of the Bon- 

 hommes, was nominated. The Bonhommes presented 14-05, 1420 

 1426, 1428, 1449. The chapel stood near the high road from 

 Easterton to Urchfont : some remains of it are now attached to Mr. 

 Drax's farm-house. The Edington Priory estate at Escote was 

 purchased at the Dissolution by land-jobbers, Tutt and Hame 

 (Hoare's Warminster, p. 85). 



1363. South Newenton (Newton Valence), Hants. Impro- 

 priation of the Church was granted to Edingdon Monastery by 

 patent. 



1363. An Inq. p. m. of this year mentions as property of 

 Edingdon Priory, "The Hundred of Wherwellsdown 93 : and 

 services at the Court of Ashton Manor and Boxgree (?) (The manor 

 itself of Ashton never belonged either to the Bishop or his Monas- 

 tery, but always to the Abbess of Romsey. 



Tynhide (now Tinhead) . The Abbess of Romsey had lands here, 

 distinguished 'afterwards as " Tynhead Romsey's : but there were 

 also some lands called Ten Hides, which had belonged to Sir Robert 

 Selyman and had been sold by his widow, Maud, to the founder's 

 brother, Sir John de Edingdon, Sen. He gave the reversion at his 

 death to the founder, for the Rector and Brethren of his Monastery, 

 allowing Matilda Selyman, the widow, to hold it during Sir John's 

 life. On his death this year (1363) it fell in. It was this portion 

 of Tinhead that was afterwards known as " Tinhead Rector's " : not 



