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of land) was made presently part of the endowment of the 
Convent at Stanley founded by Roger(2) de Berkeley (probably 
second son of Roger (i), c. 1129, and dedicated to S. Leonard,^ 
He built the Priory Church and small cloister for Augustinian 
canons, and died before Michaelmas 1131, leaving the buildings, 
both here and at Berkeley, to be completed by his son Roger (3) 
(d., c. 1170), and he endowed it with the advowsons of the 
Churches of Arlingham, Slimbridge and Uley, probably 
portions of the Rectories therein of Dursley and Dodington,^ 
and in 1156 with the Rectory of Cam ; Lorwinch was added 
in 1207-8. 
A peculiar point of interest which attaches to the con- 
struction of this Priory and its Church is that when it thus 
arose the latter was builded beside, but not attached to, 
a small herring-bone, apsidal Chapel, the original parish 
Church of the vill. This it deliberately incorporated on 
the west side of its cloister, and but a few paces from 
the S.W. angle of the Priory Church. This ancient Chapel, 
or small Church (ecclesia minor) we shall see, continued 
to be restored, and even enlarged, from time to time during 
the existence of the later convent. But, albeit, incorporated 
with the Cellarer’s Hall of S. Leonards, it remained 
essentially what it had been — a parish Chapel, and not a 
merely converted old building, until late Tudor days. This is 
shown by a valuable deed, discovered by the writer, at 
Gloucester (Cathedral Library), which may be safely dated 
c. 1260. It is witnessed to by Peter, the Prior, Robert, 
parson of Ozleworth, and Chaplain of Stanley, ^ and by three 
of the monks there. 
In this document a testator, Henry, the Priest (son of 
Henry Cook, of Hereford) devotes an annual sum of 10 shillings,'* 
derived from certain land, to the benefit of the souls of his 
forebears, in finding a lamp and oil for it, to burn before the 
“ altar of the Blessed Mary ” in Majori Ecclesia " de Stanley ” — 
i.e., in the greater Church of Stanley. ^ 
1 This was confirmed by Archbishop Theobald [1130-61]. 
2 In the Carta of Liber Niger, 1166, of Roger de Berkeley, the Prior of (Leonard) Stanley 
holds his virgate under the old feoffment of (c) 1130 (Hen. I.) 
3 i.e. of the Parish Church, or Ecclesia Minor. 
4 "Quos pmcipere consuevi de Johanne de Futtwelle de terra quam idem Johannes de me emit 
et in extremis suis Prioratui de Stanley legavit.” 
5 “And if all the money be not needed for the said lamp, then it shall be expended in 
ornament for the Church by the hands of the said Monks.” Witness — Peter, Prior of Stanley ; 
Walter de Lemening, Thomas de Stower, Symon de Feld, Robert, Parson of Ozleworth, Chaplain of 
Stanley. [Seal of Henrj’ Cook.] 
