By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 



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the advowson itself £133 6s. 8d. ; for expences and fees to officials 

 £119 lis. lid. The Crown, for itself and its servants, obtained 

 £112 7s. 2d. To the Bishop was paid £86 4s. 2d. The Dean and 

 Chapter of Sarum (including a fee to ' Master W. Bradelegh/ their 

 clerk) got £75. The Bishop's Chancellor received his ' honorarium ' 

 of £5 12s. The Court of Rome, for its ' Bull of Confirmation ' 

 under the leaden seal, demanded £33 6s. 8d. Sundry law expenses 

 in London, incurred by 'Brother Thomas Lavynton/ who seems to 

 have been the Town Lawyer, amounted to £20 2s. 4Jd. Sundry 

 expenses at Keevil and elsewhere came to £11 15s. 2d. The total 

 amount expended was £527 6s. 8d. (or 791 marks). Multiply this 

 sum by 20, to bring it to its present relative value, and it will be 

 found to represent an amount of at least £10,000. 



Ecclesiastical law was tolerably dear even in the fourteenth 

 century, when the costs of conveyance could thus reach four times 

 the amount of the original purchase. 



