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Edingclon Monastery. 



The vultures were ready for the carcase. In the very year of its 

 surrender some of the estates were sold off by the Crown : and 

 among the earliest applicants for the lands at Dilton was John 

 Bush, probably a relative of the ex-Rector. Westwell and West 

 Usley were granted to William Berners ; Tormarton (only a small 

 property) to Michael Ashfield ; and the large estate at Coleshill to 

 the Duke of Somersets brother, Sir Thomas Seymour. 



1540. 32 Hen. VIII. Of the bulk of the estates in the hands 

 of the Crown, the usual " Minister's/" or Crown bailiff's, account 

 was taken. It is printed in abstract, in the New Monasticon, vol. 

 VI., p. 536. The original document in the Augmentation Office 

 is very minute. The rectorial title of Hawkesley (Hants) which 

 does not appear elsewhere was probably comprised under Sutton 

 Valence in former accounts. 



1541. 33 Hen. VIII. The site of the Priory and the lands in 

 the manor of Edyngdon and Tynhide, together with the rectory, 

 were this year granted by the Crown to Sir Thomas Seymour, just 

 mentioned as having obtained Coleshill. He had also a grant of 

 the Abbess of Romsey's adjoining manor of Steeple Ashton, and of 

 the Hundred of Whorwellsdown. 1 In the following year, 13th April, 



1 In some of the Hundreds of Co. Wilts small payments still continue to be 

 made to the lord of the Hundred by the occupiers of certain lands, the meaning 

 and origin of which nobody understands : and so they fall into disuse or are the 

 cause of dispute. If any such petty taxes (which scarcely pay the cost of col- 

 lection) should still linger in the Hundred of Whorwellsdown, under the names of 

 «' hundred silver," "certain silver," "white money," or the like, it may be useful 

 to know what places in it were liable at this period. A survey of the manor, 

 among the Longleat documents, says : — " The sayd hundred, in charge of Henry 

 Brounker, Esq. [acting for the lord], extendeth into these tythings which pay 

 certain silver, as follows, Batelsfield, nil, Kevell 5/-, Tylshead 3/4, Colston 6/6, 

 Tynhead 13/-, Edingdon 13/-, South wick 13/- Bradley 2/6, Semington 6/6, Lyt- 

 tleton 6/6, Henton 6/6, West Ashton 13/-. Also there be divers freeholders 

 which be suitors at the Three-weeken Court yearly following, viz., The heirs of 

 Lord Broke, by lands in Southwick, the heirs of the Lord Souche and Seymor, 

 by lands there, Henry Longe, Kt. by lands in West Ashton late Lord Stourton's, 

 Thomas Champnes for lands in Bradley and Southwick, Thomas Wyse, in Tyl- 

 shead, Eichard Kyrton for hys lands there late Morgan's, Heirs of Loveden's for 

 lands in West Ashton, Heirs of Hawkins in Semyngton, Leonard Willoughby in 

 Ashton, late Norfolk's ; Heirs of Dawntsey in Low Mead, Thomas Horton in Tyls- 

 head, William Bayly in Ashton late Tucker's, William Button for late Temys 



