282 



E ding don Monastery, 



within an arch below an ecclesiastic with a crozier. The legend is 



u S. COMMUNE. RBOTORIS. 1 CONVEJNTUS. DE .LDYNDON.'" 



The surrender was signed by Bush and eleven brethren, whose 

 names and pensions allowed to them were these : — Paul Bush, £100 

 a year, and the houses he reserved from the farmer of Coleshill, 

 Berks. All these he resigned on being made Bishop of Bristol. 

 John Scott, £10; Dnus John Chaundler, £8; Richard Phyllips, 

 £6 VSs. U. j Thomas Yatte, £6 13s. 4^.; John Noble (novice), £2 ; 

 Dnus John Morgan (novice), £2; John Payne (ditto), £2; Thomas 

 Button (ditto), £2 ; Thomas Alyne, £6 ; William Wythers (ditto), 

 £2 ; Robert Hende, £6 1 3s. 4d. There remained in 1553 in charge, 

 £3 in fees, £17 6s. Sd. in annuities, and the above pensions. 2 



The following table exhibits the names of the chief ecclesiastics 

 of Edingdon, under their various titles, from A.D. 1286 to 1538 : — 



Edingdon. 



I. — The Church a Rectory, and Prebend in Romsey Abbey. 



A.D. 



1286 



c.1294 



1302 

 1312 



Title. 



Prebendary 



EcclesiseEector, 



Ditto 

 Eccl. Prebendar 



Patron. 



Abbess of 

 Eomsey 



Ditto 



Ditto 

 Ditto 



Prebendary Rectors. 



Vicars appointed by 

 the Prebendary 



John de Berwick. Also 

 Prebendary of York, Lich- 

 field, and London : and 

 Dean of Wimborne-Min- 

 ster, where he was buried 

 (Hutch. Dorset, II. 78 

 John de Eomsey. Also 1 1297. Edward de 

 Vicar of North Bradley. Overton 



William de Eoni 

 sey 



John de London.* 

 Gilbert de Middleton " Fir- 1317. John cle 



marius de Bradford," 1312, Winchcombe 



of Stanton, Oxon. Arch- 



deacon of Northamptonf 



1 This word is erroneously printed peioeis in the New Monasticon, vol. vi., 

 p. 536. On the original seal the word eectoeis is perfectly legible, 



2 See Willis's Mitred Abbies, II., 255, and Add. MSS. (B. Mus.) 24831, p. 250. 



* In U. Wright's Hist, of Domus Dei at Portsmouth, " Sir Roger de Rarum, Warden of Domu3 

 Dei, is stated to have been presented 9th September, 1303, to the Rectory of Edingdon and to the 

 Rectory of Downton, Wilts, 1304, by John de Pontissera {Anglice Sawbridgej, Bishop of Winches- 

 ter. In the Wilts Institutions a " Robert de Harwedone " was presented to Downton, Wilts, 1303 — 

 but of his being made Rector of Edingdon no evidence has been met with. 



t See supra, p. 248. 



