By the Eev. E. K. AnJcelell, Vicar. 77 



by an ancient gateway with a turret. It was a grange farm of the 

 Prior of Bradenstoke. 



The Priory of Bradenstoke held considerable property in the 

 village, which it received under sundry bequests. In the Cotton 

 MSS. and Malmesbury Chartulary are some deeds relating to these, 

 mostly undated, but between Henry I. and Henry III. They were 

 signed at Gloucester in the 3rd year of Henry III. 



Elyas Burel, of Segre, " for my salvation and the salvation of all my rela- 

 tives," gives all the land which he had in the towns of Segre, lower and upper 

 " as in crofts and fields, meadows and hams, and in all other places within and 

 without the aforesaid vills (except my messuage, which I keep for the use of 

 myself and my heirs or assigns) " unto the Church of the blessed Mary of 

 Bradenstoke, and to the canons there serving God. 



The next relate to lands anciently known as " Segre Cockerells." 



John de Cokerel gives also all his demesne in the town of Segre upper to the 

 same Church. 



2nd Henry III., 1218, Alice Cokerel, widow of Walter de Sireburn, is recorded 

 to have given to William Chambers five virgates of land, with appurtenances, in 

 Segre, with Felicia her daughter in marriage, also that the said William was 

 charged with the murder of Simon de Nether Segre, and " hath made flight, 

 and that the King claimed the land in forfeiture. As the result of a lawsuit 

 decided at Westminster in 1224, the Prior of Bradenstoke, in consideration of 

 lands received is required to pay to the said Felicia half a mark of silver yearly, 

 all her life, the first moiety at the feast of S. Michael, and the other moiety at 

 Easter. It is added, " And moreover, ths same Prior hath given to her, Felicia, 

 ten shillings sterling." 



A charter of W. de Cokerell gives one acre of meadow "between the meadows 

 of my hinds by Dodeford," in Seagre, to the same Church. John Russel, of 

 Seagre, gives the canons a right of free way and chase upon his land for " ten 

 pounds of silver in hand." The receipt of John Russel bears the date 12th year, 

 Edward II., 1318-9. 



"Segre Earls/' 



[Hen I.] Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and Constable 

 of England, confirms by charter all the gifts of land which the Canons of 

 Bradenstoke had received in Seagry. There is a release by the same earl relating 

 to the lands specified in the previous charter. Witnesses. Sir Geoffrey, Abbot 

 of Malmesbury, Milo de Morlee my steward. Philip de Cerne, John de Estone, 

 Kts., Simon de Segre, John Esturmy, William Baylemund, Robert de Hales, 

 my clerk, the maker of this writing. 



In another document, date about 1188, Alexander de Segre grants the Church 



