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Tiding don ITonasfery. 



the See of Salisbury at a rent of £10 a year/ to grant the said 

 manor to Edingdon; another license was given :23rd January, 1-367, 

 to Sir Philip Fitzwarin and Constance, his wife, to give to Edingdon, 

 in exchange for Highway, the manor of Bremelrigg, in Westbury, 

 and fifteen acres in Dilton, with the advowson of a chantry of Hey- 

 wood (in Westbury Church). The exchange was ratified by a deed 

 (in French) a few days afterwards, October 1363. Out of this 

 estate the Priory paid to the Prior of Moukton Farley 10s. 8d., to 

 Sir John Arundel, Kt., 6s., to Lord Stourton, 16s., and to the heirs 

 of St. Maur, lid., a year. 



A.D. 1375. Imber. South Bibee was part of the estate of 

 Romsey Abbey. In 1183 (29 Henry II.) the Abbess had granted 

 a portion of it to Richard Rous in perpetuity, at a fixed rent of £10 

 a year. In 1375 this (one acre excepted) was conveyed, for the 

 Monastery of Edingdon to two brethren, Thomas Elmedon and John 

 Auncell, by Richard Rous. His descendant, William Rous, in 1435 

 (14 Hen. YI.) confirmed the gift. At the Dissolution it was 

 worth £17 Is. Sd., out of which Edingdon Monastery paid the £10 

 a year to Romsey. Another part of Imber (Great Farm) belonged 

 to the Paveleys of Brook Hall — from them it passed to Cheney — 

 thence to TVilloughby de Broke, who gave a rent of £3 6s. 8d. 

 arising 1 from it to Edinofdon. 



The Abbess of Romsey originally presented to Imber, but after a 

 dispute, Rous obtained it. 2 



Imber is described in Bacon's Liber Regis as having been a " Pre- 

 bend of Edingdon Priory " 



The See of Sarum being this year vacant by the death of Bishop 

 Wyvill, the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed John de Xorton, 

 LL.D., Chancellor of Sarum, to act as commissioner for the in- 

 spection of TTilts Monasteries. Lacock Abbey was exempt by 



1 In the Archaeologia, vol. xlvii., p. 147, is an interesting account by Dr. Baron, 

 F.A.S... of Upton Scudamore, of the discovery at Bremridge of thirty-two gold 

 nobles in fine preservation, and some of considerable rarity. This snm being as 

 it happened, the precise sum of annual rent due from the tenant, the learned Dr. 

 suggests that it had been safely put away against the next rent day, but by some 

 misadventure had never reached the Bursar of Edingdon. 



2 Hist of Heytesbury, p. 160, quoting Edingdon Chartulary. 



