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had the people had no right in the nave of the Monastic Church, 
(or Ecclesia Major) , (i) the Canons’ Church would have been 
destroyed at the Dissolution, or, wholly or in part, purchased 
by the Parish from the Crown, neither of which alternatives, 
we know, were resorted to. In 1538 (Nov. 4) the parishioners 
did buy from William, last Abbot of Gloucester, for £ — , the 
clock and four bells in the tower. It is evident, therefore, 
that their need was great, but they had not to purchase 
the nave. It may be remarked that, even so, it is noticeable 
that the Commissioners did not (as was usual), destroy the 
monks’ Presbytery, which at no period could have belonged 
to the Parish. The reason for that, however, may well have 
been that its destruction would have involved the fall of the 
central tower. At any rate, the entire Church was spared, 
saving the apsidal Chapel of the south transept, and, of course, 
the monks’ stalls, altars, and ornaments, whereas the ancient 
parish Chapel of S. Swithin, incorporate with the S. Cloister- 
alley has been left dismantled and derelict, and came to be 
used for a smaller barn, which purpose it has served probably 
ever since that date. We remind ourselves that the village 
had greatly increased in population. 
Excavation in 1914 proved the Edwardian enlargement 
of this ancient Chapel ; and the tracery, both of its window 
and of certain windows in the greater or Canons’ Church, 
shews that the changes and enrichments belong to the latter 
j)art of the reign of Edward I. or early in that of Edward II. 
It is significant that Edward the Second’s well-known badge of 
the three-towered castle of Castile occurred in the now-perished 
paintings of the larger Church’s walls. Still more significant is 
the fact that there were living practically three Lords of the 
Vill of this period (1316) Sir William tie Wanton (living 1304 
and 1327), John of Gloucester, and Joan de Berkeley, heiress of 
Dursley. Moreover, so prosperous was then the growth of the 
place that Edward II. granted it a Charter for a market and 
two Fairs. ^ The Berkeleys, we know, had a hall there — i.e., at 
Stanley Downton — for their residence, for the Close Roll of 
(a. 30 Hen. III.) 1246 already mentions the Hall (Aula sua) as 
then the residence of Sybil de Berkeley. It is again (probably) 
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Xov. 6 S. Leonards. July 13, S. Swithin. The Charter for these fairs was renewed in 1620. 
