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Edingdon Monastery. 



there was maintained by the rents of Oxenbridge farm (Val. Eccl.). 

 Prayers for his soul were also appointed at Leslies Abbey, in Kent, 

 by the provisions of an Obit founded there for his own family by 

 Sir Thomas Hungerford in 1-377. Also at St. George's Chapel, 

 Windsor, every 8th of October; and in Abbotsbury Abbey, for the 

 maintenance of which the Bishop had granted to that convent two 

 acres of land and the advowson of S win ton Toller (or Toller Porco- 

 rum), a parish in which his friends and patrons, the Cheney family, 

 had the estate of Kentcomb. 1 At Edingdon Priory his death was 

 of course duly commemorated. His chief monument at Edingdon 

 ("si quseris, circumspice ") is, of course, the noble Church itself. 

 Smaller memorials there, are or were, a stone on the floor, near the 

 south door, bearing the arms of the See of Winchester encircled by 

 stars : and on one of the returns of the mouldings of the porch his 

 coat of arms, on a cross five cinquefoils, within the garter. 



" Some/' says Fuller (quoting Speed's Catalogue of Religious 

 Houses in Wiltshire), " condemn Edington for robbing St. Peter 

 [to whom, with St. Swithin, Winchester Church was dedicated] to 

 pay All Saints collectively, to whom Edington Convent was conse- 

 crated, suffering his episcopal palaces to decay and drop down whilst 

 he raised up his new foundation/'' If this was the case, "he dearly 

 paid for it after his death by his successor W r illiam Wickham [an 

 excellent architect, and therefore well knowing how to proportion his 

 charges for reparations] who recovered of his executors £1662 10.?., a 

 vast sum in that age, though paid in the lighter groats and half- 

 groats. Besides this, they were forced to make good the standing 

 stock of the bishopric, which in his time was impaired : viz. (ac- 

 cording to Bishop Lowth) 127 draught horses, 1556 oxen, 4117 

 wethers, 3521 ewes and as many lambs." Episcopal farming seems 

 to have been conducted on a very large scale in the reign of 

 Edward III. 



His Will. 



A copy of the Bishop's will is preserved in the Archiepiscopal 

 Library at Lambeth (Langham Register, p. 144). It is in Latin, 



1 Hutchins's Dorset, I., 530 (old edit.). 



