By the Rev. G. S. Master. 



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did not exceed twelve marks,** certified by Bishop Courtney, " De 

 canatus de Somborne — ecclesia de Westdene alias Weston." 



The only mention of its union with the Church of S. Mary to 

 be found at Winchester consists of two or three lines scribbled on 

 the back of a leaf in one of the registers of the Cathedral Priory, 

 and the handwriting is about 1470 — the date of the previous year 

 occurring on the front of the folio, to a document there entered, 

 while the next folio is dated 1475. The entry is as follows : — 



" Ita tamen quod Rector dictse parochise Beatse Marise de Westdene sol vet 

 nobis et successoribus nostris ratione indempnitatis prsedictas ecclesise Omnium 

 Sanctorum de Westdene annuatim in festa paschse viii d . alioqui nec 1 alio modo 

 nostrum consensum sive assensum prsebemus in hac parte." 



This is the indemnity payable to the Cathedral Chapter. In the 

 compotus of Dr. Edmund Steward, Vicar General of Bishop 

 Gardiner, of all pensions payable to the Bishop and received by him 

 from the feast of Christmas, 1536, to the same day, 1537, occurs, 

 inter alia, " In Decanatus Somborne — De ecclesia de Deane Omnium 

 Sanctorum, xx d *" When the payment was discontinued I know 

 not. None has been made within human memory. 



It may be convenient to append here a list of institutions to the 

 parish Church of West Dean All Saints, in the diocese of Winchester, 

 extracted from the episcopal registers at Winchester : — 1 



A.D. 



Patronus. 



Rector. 



1321 



Sybilla vidua Laurenc' de 



Richard de Bourne, p.r. Johannis Bate- 





Sco Martin o 



man 



1322 



Idem 



Sir Joh. de Bateman, p.r. Sir Richard 



de Bourne 



1341 



Laurenc' de SccTMartino, 



Laurenc' Pipard, p.r. Johannis Bateman 





miles 





1349 



Idem 



William en le Hyle 



1361-2 



Idem 



Joh: Wellys, de Lym 



1378 



Idem 



Joh: Manshupe, de Stapleford, p.m. John 







Lym 



1382 



Idem 



Sir Thomas James 



1382 



Idem 



Michael Aylemere 



1402 



Henricus Popham 



Sir John Hayne 



1 For this list, and some foregoing items of information, I am indebted to the 

 courtesy of Mr. Francis Joseph Baigent, of Winchester. 



