By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 273 



West Bratton and Milbourne. Out of Bratton the Monastery paid 

 every year to the Crown by the hands of the Sheriff of Wilts, 

 £6ia*. 4rf. To the heirs of St. Maur, £1 Is. 9d. To John Arundell, 

 Kt., Is. U. To the Hundred of Westbury, 10s. &d. To the Castle 

 of Devizes, 20s. To the Sheriff, Wcl. 



1113. 14 Hen. VI. Baynton, or Edington Baynton. This 

 belonged to the old family of Rous of Imber, who at an earlier date 

 — 1274 — held two carucates at Baynton under Romsey Abbey 

 (Hund. Rolls, I., 277). There is in Madox's Formulare, a deed of 

 the year 1313, from which it appears that the Rous family had 

 always claimed a right to place in Romsey Abbey two nuns, with a 

 " valectus " to wait upon them : with a right of distraining, for 

 their maintenance, upon Brawthorne and Baynton in the manor of 

 Edingdon ; on the plea that those places had been given to Rom- 

 sey by their ancestors. By this deed John Rous, Kt., having ex- 

 amined the Romsey evidences, renounces to Clementia, the Abbess 

 there, both his right to nominate the said nuns, and also all claims 

 upon those places or any others belonging to her in the manor of 

 Edingdon. 



Another Sir John Rous, Kt., the last of the old Imber family, had 

 in 1413 settled his manor of Baynton upon his younger son, John, 

 who is called in the Edingdon Cartulary, John Rous of Baynton, 

 Jun. This John, says Sir R. C. Hoare (Heytesbury, p. 162), is 

 chiefly remarkable in the episcopal registers as a promoter of Loll- 

 ardism and heresy, and was accused in 1428 of instigating the 

 inhabitants of Edyngdon and Tinhead to enter into bonds not to 

 pay offerings to the Church for certain services : for which they 

 were frequently summoned to the Bishop's Court, and seem to have 

 been very troublesome to the ecclesiastical authorities : but though 

 John was pointed at as the chief instigator, no sentence appears to 

 have been pronounced against him. In 22 Hen. VI., however, he 

 granted his manor and advowson of Baynton to the Rector and 

 Convent of Edyngdon, and thus perhaps purchased the peace of the 

 Church (Eding. Chart.). 



His gift, which included also tenements in Tyniude, Steeple 

 Ashton, and West Coulston, was this year confirmed by patent to 



