Edingdon Monastery. 



Edingdon Monastery. It anciently belonged to a family of the 

 same name, to whom Claricia, Abbess of Wynton, had granted the 

 manor in fee farm at a rent of £10 a year for ever. 1 In 1350 

 Thomas Coleshill sold it to Bishop Edingdon. The Bishop's feoffees, 

 Nicholas Carewent, Rector of Crondale, Hants ; John Bleobury, 

 Rector of Witney, Oxon ; Walter of Sevenbampton, Rector of 

 Alresford, Hants; John Corfe, Rector of Collingbourne Abbats, 

 Wilts; Walter Hey wood, Thomas Hungerford, and Michael Sky lling, 

 knights, assigned it over to Edingdon Monastery in 1366. Out of 

 it was paid to the Hundred of Shrivenham the price of six bushels' 

 of corn at eightpence a bushel, by the name of " King's corn " : and 

 two shillings a year to the Mandatory, or Prior, of St. John, of 

 Queenhampton (Quennington), Co. Glouc, chief lord of Burward's- 

 cot (Buscot). It was granted at the Dissolution to Sir Thomas 

 Seymour, Lord Sudeley. 



Edingdon Monastery had also the rectory and patronage of Coles- 

 hill. 2 



They also had the Hundred of Shrivenham, and lands at 

 Larkeby, Caldecot, and Shellingkord, Co. Berks. 



1364. Bratton. This was held of Devizes Castle, of the King 

 in chief, being certain lands late William de Mandevillc's, who died 

 in 1333. The donor appears to have been Benedicta, widow of Sir 

 John Mandeville, heir of Joan, the wife of Nicholas de Bosco att 

 Hooke (Hook- wood). 



1365. 39 E. III. Hungerford's Obit founded. Sir Thomas 

 Hungerford, then of Heytesbury, afterwards of Farley Castle, 

 Bishop Edingdon's seneschal, and one his executors, by deed dated 



1 Edingdon Eegister, p. 164. 

 2 Coleshill manor (through an heiress of Pleydell) is now the Earl of Radnor's. 

 The present house at Coleshill was built in 1650 by Inigo Jones for Sir Mark 

 Pleydell. A window in the Church of the Nativity, at Angiers, was purchased 

 by an Earl of Eadnor and placed in Coleshill Church (Walpole's Anecdotes of 

 Painting, II., 38). 



In the Archaeological Journal, vol. xiv., 268, are some deeds relating to one 

 Nicholas de Tyngewick, Incumbent of Reculver in Kent, for whom, being 

 physician to King Edward I. in his last illness, the King applied to the Pope for 

 a dispensation to hold also the living of " Coleshull, in the Diocese of Sarum." 



