By the Rev. Canon J. E. 



F. S.A. 



license of Pope Boniface. Edingdon Monastery was summoned to 

 show by what title it held its impropriate Churches of Coleshill, 

 Edingdon, Steeple Lavington, and BueklancL Thomas de Aylesbury, 

 Prebendary of Urchfont, appeared as Proctor for Edingdon, 12th 

 November : and having given satisfactory explanations was dis- 

 charged (Edingdon Cartulary, p. 27 b.). 



1379—1380. Besides the lands, late William Mandeville's, at 

 Bratton, others at Diltox and Brattox, late Walter Daunsejr'3, 

 were conveyed to the Monastery bj^ John Mandeville, Ralph de 

 Norton, and Margaret, his wife, sister of William Dauntsey. Out 

 of Dilton there was an annual payment of 13-?. Ad. to the Priory of 

 Monkton Farley, near Bath. 



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1332. The following extract from one of the deeds in the Car- 

 tulary describes the course pursued in the election of a new Rector. 

 It also shows the number of the brethren in the house at this time. 

 "The Cor- rector and convent, eighteen in number, present with 

 sorrow to the Bishop of Sarum that John of Aylesbury, late Rector, 

 had gone the way of all flesh on the 25th March last. After de- 

 liberation the majority, consisting of Brothers William Hampton, 

 Adam Schenlegh, Nicolas Clerk, Robert Offington, William Brok- 

 weye, John Westbury, John Ambresbury, John Tenhyde, John 

 Stowe, Robert Tame, John Brehulle (Brill : these two last Bucking- 

 hams hire names, perhaps from the other house at Ash ridge), John 

 Winchester, Thomas Tame, Peter Edyndon, and William Hamme, 

 have nominated three brethren, John Buckland, Thomas Odyham, 

 and Henry Laving ton : and request the Diocesan to chuse one of the 

 three. Dated in the Chapter House of Edyndon, 1st April, 

 Odyham was chosen and immediately instituted : being at the same 

 time required to deliver in a statement of the Churches impropriated 

 to the Monastery. 



1390. Cote ridge (now Cuttridge, near Westbury). Here cer- 

 tain lands, formerly granted in fee farm by the Abbess of Romsey 

 to Walter de Quercu (i.e.j Cheney) and afterwards sold by John 



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