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



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1570 mentions a ground of five acres at " Bishop's Cross on the 

 Hill." An Obit was kept for Bishop Ayscough at St. George's 

 Chapel, Windsor. 



14-62. According to a MS. in the Bodleian Library, quoted in 

 Rees's Cyclopaedia, art. " Church," a pilgrim deposited the following 

 articles at the Priory : — 



A Chapel made to the likeness our Lord's Sepulchre at Jerusalem. 

 A variety of vestments with imitations in wood of the Chapel of Calvary : of the 

 Church at Bethlehem, the Mount OliveV, and the Valley of Jehosaphat. 



1475. 15 Ed. IV. One John Prescote having purchased some 

 lands at Knojde, from Margaret, Lady Hungerford and Botreaux 

 (but probably not having the money ready), agrees that the eviden- 

 ces shall be " putte in safe keeping in a sure place within the Monas- 

 tery of Edington ; there to remain until such time as any nede 

 shall require them to be had and seen for the wele of the said lands : 

 and when they have been seen, there to be laid up in safe keeping 

 again."" 1 



Very few are the incidents that have been met with connected 

 with Edingdon Monastery. One William Way, of Eton, an early 

 traveller in the East, settled at the House on his return. 2 It is 

 also mentioned by Fox, the Martyrologist, 3 as the place where 

 King Henry the Eighth's commissioner examined a poor Wiltshire- 

 man, afterwards burnt at the stake, John Maundrell, son of Robert 

 Maundrell, a native of Rowde, near Devizes, but occupier of a farm 

 at Bulkington, near Keevil. " Then succeeded three men who were 

 burnt the same month at one fire in Salisbury, who in the like 

 quarrel with the others that went before them and led the dance, 

 spared not their bodies to bring their souls to celestial felicity . . . 

 Their names were John Spicer, freemason, William Coberley, tailor, 

 and John Maundrell, husbandman, son of Rob*. M. of Rowde~ 

 dwelt at Bulkington. So it was in the days of King Henry 8, at 



1 Hungerford Chartulary. 

 2 His travels to Jerusalem were printed by the late Beriah Botfield, Esq., for 

 the Roxburgh Club : with a preface by the.late Rev George Williams, Rector of 

 Ringwood, Hants. 



3 Fox's Martyrs, Brewer's edit., 8vo, viii., 102. 



