Edingdon Monastery. 



feoffees for the Monastery, viz. John Conge, Prepositus of St. 

 Edmund's College, Sarum (Wilts Instit., 1443), John Cammell, 

 William Alysandre (patron of Winterbourne Cherbourg in 1424, 

 1443), and John Touke (I. p. M.) . An annual payment of 17s. lid. 

 was made to the Abbess o£ Romsey. After the Dissolution, "Ed- 

 ington's Baynton," and five acres at Orcheston St. George, were 

 sold by the Crown to Anselm Lambe (Harl. MS. 607, 25 b. Ar. 59). 



Tithes of Baynton. The original " Prebendary Rector of Ed- 

 ingdon Church in Romsey Abbey" had always had a claim upon 

 the tithe of Baynton tything : it being within the parish of Eding- 

 don. This seems to have been a bone of contention, for there was 

 a chapel at Baynton, the chaplain of which claimed to be called Rector, 

 the Rous family being patrons. The Edingdon Cartulary contains 

 some deeds relating to these quarrels. One is headed " An acknow- 

 ledgment by the Rector of Baynton of having despoiled the Warden 

 of Edingdon Chantry of certain tithes : and of the restitution 

 thereof." On the 17th December, 1351, before the Bishops of Win- 

 ton and Sarum, and Master John de Ingham, Vicar of Warminster, 

 Thomas the clerk, calling himself Rector of Baynton Chapel within 

 the parish of the Prebendal Church of Edingdon, made a confession 

 in writing, " In Dei nomine, Amen. I Thomas, fee., have unjustly 

 taken great tithes of two acres upon Dunge-Hill, &c." In 1362 a 

 composition was made between the Rector and Convent of Edingdon 

 and the Patron and Rector of the Chapel of Baynton about the 

 tithes of corn and bay and mortuary fees : in which allusion is made 

 to a former dispute between Gilbert de Bruere (Prebendary Rector 

 of Edingdon) and John de Rous, Kt., the Rector and Patron of 

 Baynton Chapel. The last presentation to Baynton Chapel men- 

 tioned in the Wilts Institutions was in 1439. Edingdon Chartulary 

 supplies another name, William Chippenham, in Edw. IV. The 

 chapel itself has disappeared; but a field called Chapel Close, in 

 which it probably stood, lies in Edingdon parish, between Tynhide 

 and West Coulston, near the old mansion house of the Danvers 

 family (afterwards the Longs), and close to the high road. 



In 1857 two leaden coffins were found in a field on " Blandford's 

 Farm," in Edingdon Baynton. 



