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St. Audoen's, South Wraxall. 



quatuor decern solidos ad quatuor anni terminos, scilicet ad festum Sci. Michaelis 

 iij s . et vj d ., et ad Nativitatem Dm. iij 9 . et vi d ., et ad Annunc. Sca3. Marise iij 8 . 

 et vj d ., et ad Nativ. Sci. Joan. Bapt. iij 9 . et vj d ., et ad hockeday ij den . de auxil. 

 Vicecom. pro omnibus serviciis, homagiis, releviis et omnibus esceat. et secular, 

 demand, ad nos spectantibus : Salvo servic. Dni. Reg. videl. quantum pertinet 

 tenur. terras ejusdem feodi in eadem villa." 



The deed, which must be of the date of about 1266, is witnessed 

 amongst others by Walter de Dunstanvill, Alured de Dene (Seneschal 

 of Shaftesbury) Philip de Comberwell, &c. 



The other document, a copy of which is on the next page in the 

 Chartulary of Shaftesbury, is as follows : — 



"Anno MCCLXVII mense Jul. et vigil. Sci, Jacobi Apost. facta est hsec con- 

 vencio inter Dnam Agnet. de la Fferrere tunc Abbatiss. Sci. Edwardi de 

 Shaftesbury et ejusdem loci conventus ex una parte et Pnum Hemic, de Ffleg 

 tunc Prior : de Ffernlegh et ejusdem loci conventus ex altera parte ; videl. quod 

 dicta Abbatiss. vel. aliq. successor, suor. vel illius loci conventus vel aliq. 

 nomine earum non intrabit in feodum diet Prior, et convent, de Ffernleg 

 recipiendo terras aliquas in jure perpetuo. Nec dictus Prior et convent, de 

 Ffernleghe vel. aliquis in nomine earum intrabit in feodum dictse Abbatissa et 

 convent. Sci. Edwardi nisi prius huic inde mutuus assensus requiratur. Preterea 

 ea convencione concessit dicta Abbatissa et suus conventus pro se et suis success- 

 oribus quod Prior de Ffernleg, quicumque pro tempore fuerit, in perpetuum 

 faceret attorn, suum in sect. Hundred, et Cur. de Bradeford quam facere debent 

 pro terra quam habent de dono Martini de Wrokeshalle capellani quemcunque 

 voluerit per omnes terras patentes per liberum hominem qui sectam non debeat 

 ad predict, hundred, vel ad predict, curiam sine aliqua contradictione vel re- 

 clamacone vel cavillacone diet. Abbatiss. vel alicujus Ballivi sui." 



This deed is witnessed by Walter de Dunstanville, Adam de 

 Grenville, Philip de Comberwell, and others. 



Interpreted simply, these deeds imply (1) a gift, on the part of 

 Martin, (styled " capellanus/'') of Wraxall, of a small estate which he 

 had hitherto held in that village as part of the Manor of Bradford, 

 under the Abbess of Shaftesbury as Lady of the said Manor, to the 

 Priory of Monkton Farleigh ; (2) a [confirmation by Agnes de la 

 Ferrer, Abbes of Shaftesbury, of the said gift of Martin "the 

 chaplain/'' reserving to herself and her successors the Abbesses of 

 Shaftesbury, an annual payment of fourteen shillings 3 to be paid in 

 equal portions at each of the usual quarterly feast-days, and a hocke- 

 day payment of two 'pence, de auxilio Vice comitis, i.e., at the Sheriff's 



