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Collect ions for a lLhlory of Seagry. 



adjacent monasteries, Malmesbury and Bradenstoke. In the Hun- 

 dred Rolls (p. &72) Seagry is named as part of King John's gift to 

 the Abbot of Malmesbury, along with the hundred of Sterkeley and 

 Cheggeley and the ancient demesne of Malmesbury. 



There was also an appropriation of some part of the benefice in 

 the thirteenth century to Bradenstoke Priory. Dugdale mentions 

 (I. 142) that the appropriation was confirmed to that house about 

 A.D. 1250 by William (de York) Bishop of Sarum, and afterwards 

 by charter of King Henry III. 



In the enquiry made for raising Edward the Third's subsidy, 

 called Nonarum Inquisitio, the ninth of corn, hay and wool arising 

 out of Seagry is set at 66s. M. The profits of the glebe and small 

 tithe, at 405. An annual pension of 20s. is paid to Bradenstoke. 

 This return was made at New Sarum before R. Selyman, Robert 

 Hungerford, and others, by four parishioners, Henry Paternoster, 

 Adam Wootton, Peter Chesman, and Walter le Whyte. 



At the general valuation made by King Henry VIII. the return 

 stood thus : — the Prior of Bradenstoke had there, in rents of assize, 

 per annum, £8 15s. 3d.; out of which he had to pay an annual 

 pension by composition for the maintenance of a vicar, £8 ; besides 

 10*. rent, to Thomas Mompesson, lord of the manor; the Abbot of 

 Malmesbury received from Seagry an annual " pittance " of 22s. 8d. ; 

 the value of the vicarage, as returned by Richard Huntley, then 

 vicar, arising from land, tithes of corn and wool, was £8, charged 

 with fees to the Archdeacon of Wilts, 6s. \\%d. 



A terrier of Seagry vicarage, extracted from Sarum Registry in 



1671 sets forth as follows * — 



" We have no glebe lands belonging to our vicarage, only a dwelling house, 

 barn,* and stable : a small orchard and garden contiguous, by estimation three 

 parts of an acre of ground : and it is bounded on the east and south by our vicar : 

 and on the north and west by Sir Edward Hungerford. This is all we know off. 

 Only a pension of nine marks a year and a ground which is kept from our Vicar 

 by the owners of the Abbey of Bradenstoke which we presented at your lordship's 

 last visitation." 



Signed by Christopher Simons, Vicar, William Sparrow, James 

 Grinaway, churchwardens. 



* The barn was pulled down some eighty years ago. 



