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DOMESDAY BOOK and the INQUISITIO GHELDI for the County:
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Some remarkable Particulars of NATURAL HISTORY;
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A Corre& MAP of the County, and VIEWS of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, See.
By JOHN HUTCHINS, M. A.
Reftor of the Holy Trinity in Wareham, and of Swyre, in the County of
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TOWN and BOROUGH' of SHAFTS BURY
THIS ancient town has received a variety of names from our hiftorians and records. In Britifh it is called Caer-Palladur, and Caer- Septon : I n Saxon Sceprefbypi^, or Sceapreybypij; by- Bede, Matthew of Weftminfter, and Simeon Dunel- menfis, Schaftejbury ; by Brompton, Schaftebyry ; by Knighton, Schaftijbury, by Ethelred, abbot of RieVal, Sceftebyrig ; by Florence of Worcefter, Scaftejbyrig ; and by Henry of Huntingdon, Schaftejbirh. In Domefday Book, Sceptcfberie ; in other records, Schef- ion, Shaftbiria , Schcftejburia, See. Sceptonia, Septonia , and Bul'gus Sctncli Edwardi, from which laft it is Rlfo called fometimes Edwardjlow. By Leland a, Sophotiia, aild Urbs Sophonienfis . The modern name, Sbajion , is an abbreviation of Shaftfbury. The fuppofed Britifh. names, Caef Palladur , or Palledour, feem to be meet' invention, alluding to a temple of Pall as, which fome have placed here, though this deity was unknown to the ancient Britons. Drayton makes Palladouf the name of the hit!, not of the town b :
And boaft my birth from great Cadwallader,
From old Caer-Septon, in Mount-Pallador.
Paladr , in Welch, fignifies the ftaff of a fpear, or the fhaft of a pillar ; and Shafijbury is derived from Sceapr,' Sbgitla, Cu/pis, i. e. as fame explain it, the fpire, dt fteeple Of the abbey, which the Anglo- Saxons' filled by that name, and Bupjh, a town. But as it is highly, probable that this town had its exiftencO,- . and nearly the fame name, before the time of king Alfred, When it is much to be doubted whe¬ ther the Saxons built with (lone, or under flood the art of eretting lofty fpires, it could not take its name from a fpire that did not then Oxifl. Sceapr, in Saxon', fignifies alfo' the point, or end of a hill, or a promontory. It is therefore more natural and pro¬ bable to confider the word Shaft i as implying a ho-
* CdlleA t. III. 187. v Draiton, Heroic fcpifl. Owen Tudor Tclaiul, Collect, r. I. p. 219. ex Chron. Uiiv'allcnt'. Monaft.
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rizontal projection, rather than a fpire or perpendi¬ cular height. What favours this conjeifture is, that weft of th'is town,' the plain, now called Cajlle Green, ends in a promontory;, and here,' tradition fays, the ancient town flood. It received the name of Eurgus Sanfti Edzbardi, ancf Edzvnrd-Stozu, from the remains of that prince being depohied in the abbey.
Fabulous hiftory attributes a very high' antiquity to' this town. Some Wijl have Rhridubrafnrs, of Ci- cuber, king of the Britons,' who flourifhed 940' years before Chrift, to have built Palladur, of Cacr- Septo'11, wherein he founded three temples, and placed in them Hardens : and that where the abbey was afterwards built, flood, in Pagan times, a temple of Pallas. Hollingfhead fays c, it was built by Lud,' or Ludhurdibras, fon of Leil, eighth king of the Britons from Brute, who began to re:gn A'. M. 3046, and reigned twenty-nine years. Brompton lays it was btiilt by Caffibelan, a Bfitifli king, Mag- nee JinoJitatis ertit civitcts d.
It is celebrated by our hiftorians, for the pro¬ phecy of one Aquila, concerning the change of the Britifh government.' Some think this was aii eagle, called' in' Latin aquila ; others, that it was a, man of that name, who foretold that the govern¬ ment of Britain, after having been in' Saxon and Norman hand's, Ih'ould return at length to the an¬ cient Britons e. In a note to the verfes before quoted from Drayton, it is faid, that at the build¬ ing of Caer-Sep.ton, an eagle, or rather one named Aquila, prop'hefied of the recovery of tlm ifle by the Britons, bringing with them the bone's uf C In¬ wall ader from Home, where he died.
Thefe fabulous Recounts may be a' prefiifnptioa of high antiquity, but carfy no Certainty or infor¬ mation in them. Camden r fays, iC It was undoubtedly tf built by Alfred for Malmfbury the hiftorian has u told us, that there was an ancient ftone, in his time,
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“ Krug Alfred built this city, in the year of • “ cur Lord 8,8 o; and the 8th of his reign.
I iv3s- the more willing to infert this infcription, “ for Qlvafipg the truth of the matter, becaufe-in all <£ the copies I have feen it is wanting, except one “ which belongs to the lord Burleigh, higli-trea- “ Hirer of England.” Lei and fays* “ There was an “ inftcijption on the right hand enteringe of the cha- “ pitei howfe, fet up by king Alfred, in knoledge “ tlratlhe repayred Schaftefberye, deftroyed by the “ Danish” But he immediately adds, that “ the in- “ feription of the remaines of Which ~ William of “ Malmefberi lpeketh, ftodd, in the waulle of Sr. “ Marie’s chapel, at the towne’s end, which chapel “ is now pullid down.” lie alio fays, <e That this s tranflated hither from the ruins of a very
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“ ancient wall s.” Brompton fays, Alfred repaired Shaft (bury A. D. 879, a. r. 7, ft cut teflatur lapis magnitSy qui in capitulo monialium ufquc hodie eft in- fculptus h.
Thofe who favour the opinion (which is the mod probable) of its being more ancient than the time of Alfred, will have the word fecit to fignify that he only enlarged and repaired it, and by granting it new privileges, made it flourifh : for, in the time of Alfer, bilhop of Sherborn, who died 910, this town con- iitfed of one ftreet *.
It mull be obferved, that about the year 880, Al¬ fred was deeply engaged in the wars with the Danes, whom he did not entirely fubdue till 885, from whence to 892, he had leifure to cultivate the arts of peace, in which he excelled not only all his pre- decelfors, kings of England, but all cotemporary princes. He rebuilt many towns and monafteries that had been demolilhed by the Danes, founded feveral religions houfes, and fortified many towns and caftles; in order to which he fent for workmen from abroad, and gave great encouragement to artificers and per- fons of Ihill in all arts and fciences. In this period the rebuilding of Shaflon is to be fixed with moft probability. In 892 the wars broke out again, and continued, with little interruption, during the remainder of his reign, which ended with his life, A. D. 901, having continued forty years.
This town is fituated in the northern extremity of the county, on the borders of Wiltfhire, fixteen miles N. E. from Sherborn, and ten N. from Blan- ford-Forum, on the great road from London to Corn¬ wall, 103 mcafured, and 88 computed miles from London, in the latitude of 51 d. 4 m. according to Adams ; 51 d. 6 m. according to Salmon ; in 2 d. 8 m. well longitude, according to Adams ; 2 d. 20 m. according to Salmon •, and extends, according to Ogiiby, near four furlongs E. and W. and as much N. and S. It Hands on a very high hill, difficult of accefs, except on the E. On the S. and W. you have a very extenfive profpeft over the counties of Dorfet, Somerfet, and Wilts. When viewed from the louth it appears in form of a bow, St. James’s pariih lying in a vale on the S. fide of the hill. The
limits oft, .the town extend only to u4 Leers end lanes ; but fame part of the pariih of Sj. James extends into the adjacent country.
The air is pure and, healthy, bur the high fitut- tier makes it cold and bleak. The Iv.iiltlmgs are generally of ft one* dug. out of the hill ■ but unlefs illy and near the Centre olj the town, and in IJym- port-flreet, mean and indifferent, nor) are the (Meets regular. Here are about 3 20 houfes, and i6eo fouls. The foil is fandy, bin the town is furrounded by a fer¬ tile country. On the north of it lies the fore ft of Gillingham : on the N. S.- find W. the vaje of Blake- more, a deep country, full of paflure, yielding cattle and woqd ; and on the. E. N, E, and S. a high champaign couut.ry* abounding with flieep and corn.
Here were anciently ii churches :
1. The conventual church of St. Mary and St.
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3. Sr. Trinity, 1
4. Sr. Laurence, hnoiv united to St. Refer at
5. Sr. Martin, j
6. St. Andrew. J
7. St. Rombald’s, or Cann.
8. St- James?s.
9. All Saints,
10. Sr. Edward, it. St. John, 12. St. Mary,
.now united to St. James’s.
St. James.
St. Laurence. St. Rumbald.
All thefe occur in the Sarum Regifters of Insti¬ tution.. In the valor, 1291, we find only -two, viz. the reftories [ecclefia] of St. James and St. Rowald ; the reft, I fuppofe, were not rated propter exilitate,,:. In the valor, 1534, thefe fix are mentioned :
St. Martin.
St. Peter.
St.- Trinity.
Leland mentions but four pariih churches, pof- fijbly becaufe two of them are not entirely in the borough. At prefent they are properly reduced to three, which, being fmall, and the towers lpvv, are no great ornaments to the town at a diftance.
Formerly there were many more churches in towns than now, and more than the number of .the inhabi¬ tants required. The charge of keeping them in re¬ pair being great, the parifhioncrs neglccfed them till they became fo ruinous, even before the Refor¬ mation, that they were unable to repair or rebuild them. Their poverty was the true caufe of their decay ; for, even in their fiotirilhing ftate, the bene¬ fice was fo poor, that they were excufed in all taxa¬ tions, and would not afford competent maintainence for an incumbent ; and, being deferted, were united to ieveral parilhes. Some were of lefs value than the mean {Upends of vicarages, which had been ge¬ nerally advanced to five marks per annum. The profits of them arofe, not from tythes and glebe, which were inconfiderablc, but chiefiy from offerings and oblations, ariling from maffes and prayers for the dead : but even thefe were many times infuffi- cient ; and when there was a monaftcry in any town, all perfons were fond of being buried in the conven¬ tual church, or in the cemetery, which, in feme places, was the common burial place of the whole
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town. This drew the oblations and mafles thither, to the great advantage of thofe houfes. But at the Reformation, when thele were abolifhed, many fmall churches, which had fupported themfelves chiefly by thele means, were deprived of them, and became neglected and del'ecrated.
Streets and Lanes.
Barton-Street is mentioned in a roll of court- leet 1 1 E. IV. It is now called Barton-Hill. Here flood St. Michael’s church, or chapel, of which are now no remains. It lies beyond St. Laurence’s, in the pariih of the Holy Trinity.
Bell-Lane, anciently St. Laurence’ s-Street, be- caufe that church flood in it. It takes its prefent name from an inn called the Bell, which feems to be of fome antiquity, a tenement juxta le Bell , being mentioned in a roll of court-leet 21 E. IV. It runs parallel with High-Street.
Blyke-Street, the mofl northerly flreet, is men¬ tioned in a roll of court-leet 21 E. IV. and 3 H. VII, and lies in the parifh of St. Laurence.
Bore swell-Lane, mentioned in a court-leet roll 1 E. IV. It leems to be near Bymport-ftreet, to¬ wards Elmore green, where is a wall fl ill called Bore- well. It is probably the fame as Perefwell Lane, mentioned in a roll of court-leet 1 1 E. IV.
Boywell-Lane, mentioned in a court-leet roll 16 and 20 E. IV. in which a perfon was prefented for his hogs and geefe fpoiling the wells, called Boy- well and Houndefwell.
Burgess-Lane, anciently Mahounds Lane, lies in St. James’s parifh. Towards the lower end of it is a well, probably Houndefwell, and another flopped up near it, which might be Boywell. Holy Rood Mead is near it, and is ftill called by that name, and it is faid in a roll of court-leet 16 E. IV. to be near that mead.
Bymport, or Bynfort-Street, in the parifh of the Holy Trinity, ftands E. of St. Mary’s Crofs, in which was a tenement late fir Thomas Beauchamp’s, kt. mentioned in a roll of court-leet 1 and 15 E. IV.
Church-Lane lies in St. Peter’s parifh, and runs from Trinity church-yard into high-ftreet. It is men¬ tioned in a roll of court-leet 16 E. IV.
Cornhull is mentioned in a court-leet 1. E. IV.
Crop e-Lane, now Cop-Street-Lane , lies in the parifh of St. Peter, and branches off to the N. E. from Pligh-Street. It is mentioned in a roll of court- leet 15 E. IV.
East -Street [Virus Orient alis~\, now Salifbury- flreet, mentioned in a roll of court-leet 20 E. IV, 39 H. VI, and 3 H. VII ; and in a deed 4 H. VIII. is faid to be in St. Martin’s parifh. All this flreet, to the end of the borough, belonged to St. Martin’s, now to St. Peter’s parifh. Near the eaft end of St. Martin’s church is an open place, where many ways
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meet; and befldes the way continuing flrait on' from1 High-Street to Eafl-Street, and Hert-Lane, there branches off to the N. E. Crope, or Gopflreet-Lane, and to the fouth, Shetewel-Lane, which leads down the hill to part of St. Peter’s parifh,- adjoining to St. James’s. In the centre of thefe ft reefs flood3 St. John’s crofs, fo called from the Chantry of St. John Within the monaftery, which had an houle belonging' to it in Eafl-Street.
Hert-Lane, now called Ange'l -Lan’e', from' a fign at the entrance of it. 3 H. VII. the houfe of tire recflor of St. Martin’s is faid to be in it.- It feems to have been the fame as Hattejlene , mentioned in a roll of court-leet 39 II. VI. The upper part of this flreet is in the parifh, of the Holy Trinity, the lower in St. Peter’s.
High-Street [Alta-Srata] occurs in a roll of court-leet 3 H. VII. It lies in St. Peter’s parifh.
Laundry-Lane runs down Park-Hill into St. James’s parifh. In a garden at the bottom is a well, called Laundry-WeW, where the linen of the convent was probably wafhed. The Laundry-houfc is pulled down, but the well is ftill in ufe. This flreet is moftly in St. James’s pariih, the upper part in Trini¬ ty, probably heretofore in St. Mary’s. In 16^9 Philip, earl of Pembroke, leafed Laundry-Houfe in St. James’s, with a garden, and clofe adjoining, called Laundry-Clofe, of one-half an acre, to Chriflopher Hicfon, of Shafton, who, in 1650, fold them to John Lilly, of Stour-Provoft.
Leighton-Lane, mentioned in a roll of court- leet, 16 E. IV, is in the parifh of St. Peter.
St. Mary’s-Lane, mentioned in Mr. Breton’s Computus, now belongs to the parifh of the Holy Trinity, but was probably formerly in' St. Mary’s.
Muston-Street, formerly in the parifh of St. Laurence, now partly in the Ploly Trinity, and partly in St. Peter’s parifh.
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Mill-Lane, anciently belonged to the parifh of St. Laurence, now to the Holy Trinity.
Shete well-Lane belongs to the parifh of St. Peter. It is mentioned in a Computus of John Whitenow, the king’s deputy baiyliff, 35 H. VI, and in a roll of court-leet 39 IT. VI. ii, 15, 20 E. IV, and is fometimes called Shetewall and Setewell-L ane. It runs from the fouth of St. Martin’s church, down the hill, to' part of St. Peter’s parifh, adjoining to St. James’s.
Towte, or Tought-Hill, mentioned in a Com¬ putus, 13 E. IV, lies at the north extremity of the town, near Elmore Green, in Motcomb, but the road, in the upper part, is repaired by St. Peter’s.
Other Places in this town mentioned ift ancient
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Brandyrescroft juxta St. John’s-Hill, occurs in a roll of court-leets 1 E. IV.
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Bytellesmore, in St. James s paiifti, is faid, in a court-roll, 39 H. VI, and 16 E. IV, to be near Holy-Rood Mead.
Crouch-House is [mentioned in tile Kalendarium Munimentorum 20 Eiiz. Crouch-Iioufe and Paik- more the hundred of Alencefter, and lands there¬ unto belonging, parcel of Shafton-abbey, vvere granted, inter alia , to Edward Horfey and his heirs.
Garston, in the parifh of St. Peter, near Holy- Rood Mead, is mentioned in a roll of court-leet, 39 H. VI.
Goldhill, Gold-Cliff, ; or Chipping-Cliff, in the pa¬ rifh of St. Peter, faid in a court-roll, 16, 20 E. IV, and 20 E. IVI, to be oppofite Blind-Houfe, and the wall of the abbey. It is probably called Chipping- Cliff from the market for cattle being held there.
Haliwel, is mentioned in a roll of court-leet 21 E. IV. This may only be a well in Leighton, which fupplies part of the town with water, and is but a little way from the high-road. It is commonly called Holywell.
Holy-Rood Mead, is faid in a court roll, 29 H. VI, and 12 E. IV, to be near Garfton and By- tellefmore.
Kingsettle, and Pyle-Cross are mentioned as near S ha (Ion, in the perambulation of Gillingham- Fore ft.
Platellys-Place, mentioned in Kalend. Muni¬ ment.
Sadlers-Place. Oliver , fon of Oliver Serving- ton, held, at his death, 2 s. rent, iffuing yearly out of a burgage called Sadlers-Place in Shafton. He alfo held the manor of Magefton, of John Dynham, kt. by knights fervice ; David his brother and heir
Wyrtenev, or Wyrtonchy , mentioned in the Ka¬ lend. Muniment.
In an old map of Shafton, drawn 161 3, not long ago in the pofteflion of Mrs. Marks of Salisbury, Mr. Brife’s near the Butter-Crofs , Mr. Hurman’s on Tout-Hill, Bedbury, in Love-Lane, and Mr. Matthews’s, oppofite St. Laurence’s church, were very large an¬ tique houfes ; as were alfo thefe inns, viz. the Lamb, the Angel, the Swan, and the George, which were no doubt formerly built for the reception of pil¬ grims.
Here is fcarce any kind of manufacture carried on, but a well-frequented market is held on Saturdays. The fairs are held Nov. 11th, and June 24th; the latter of which feems to be the remains of a much larger one, which, as the Kalend. Muniment, lafted from the eve of the Tranflation of St. Edward to the Feaft of St. Peter and Paul, i. e. from June 20 to 29. 12 R. II. a court of pie-powder was held for the fair of St. Edward, which began on the morrow of the Nativity of St. John Baptift, but was held only for four days. But 27 E. III. and 14 H. VII. the pleas of that court, then held within the gates of the abbey, lafted from the Eve of the feaft, beforementioned, to the hour ef the vefpers of St. Peter and Paul inclufive.
On the fouth fide of the town, near which for¬ merly ftood the abbey and the church, was a park belonging to the abbey, which ftill retains the name of Park-Hill. At the E. end yet remains part of the wall that inclofcd it, which, next the borough, is very ftrong and high, and embattled and fupported by very large buttreffcs : but lower down, near the parifh of St. James, little more than the ruins of it are extant. This lies in the borough. Here was another park, called the Out-Park , near the water¬ works, below the hill on the N. W. containing too acres. The marks of fifti-ponds are ftill viable in it.
Matthew Davys, of Chickfgrove, in the parifh of Tifbury, c. Wilts, Was educated at the Middle- Temple, and member for Whitchurch, c. Plants, in the parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640, but with other eminent lawyers retired to the king at Oxford, and afterwards was obliged to compound, and pay for his eftate 300 1. About the middle part of his life he fettled here, and dying 1678, set. 83, was lur¬ ried in the chancel of Tilbury, as was his wife Anne (daughter of Edward Mervin, of Fonthill, c. Wilts, efq.), who died 1657. Anne, their daughter, mar¬ ried William Bowles, and died befbre her hufband, aged 90, having been married near feventy years.
William Bowles, efq. was demi at Magdalen Col¬ lege, Oxford, whence he was ejeCled. He' went into the king’s army, was father of a numerous family, and many years in the commiftion of the peace. He died 1717, mt. 93. The crefcent in the arms of this family is faid to be an augmentation to one of his anceftors, Rowland Bowles, for his gallant behaviour againft the Turks, at the fiege of Gran, under fir Thomas Arundel, 1595.
His eldeft fon, John Bowles, efq. was deputy re¬ corder to fir Plenry Butler, and with him defied member here by the corporation only ; and fo re¬ turned, and fucceeded him as recorder, 1685.
John Davys, M. A. redded here many years, after he refigned his living of Caftle-Afhby, c. North ampton. Pie was an excellent fcholar, an eminent tutor in the univerfity, and an admired preacher. He was well fkilled in the art of decyphering, on which art he publifhed an eflay ; Clarendon and Whitlock compared ; and fome anonymous fugitive pieces. He feems rather to have chofcn to. aflift others, than appear in public himfelL Pie left this entry in the regifter of Caftle-Afhby : “ Johannes “ Davys, fil. Matthau Davys, armig. nat. apud “ Chickfgrove, in paroch. de Tifbury, etcom. Wilts, *' 28 die Sept. A. D. 1678, Coll. Magd. Oxon. “ Semicom. elecl. 26 Jul. 1694. A. M. 1 jun. 170c. “ Vic. de Fritwel, in Com. Oxon. inllit. 1703. “ Aul. Cervin. Vice-Princip. adm. 30 Mar. 1706". “ Reclor hujus Eccl. de Caftle-Afhby, inftit. 16 Apr. “ 1719. Refig. Oft. . . . 1740.” — He died here iy52.
Not long after the commencement of this work, as he had been my tutor in the univerfity, I waited upon him, and fpent three or four days with him here, and found him as communicative as he was knowing. Pie carried me over the town, and pointed out all the remains of antiquity, and examined the corporation cheft, which contained many curious re¬ cords relating ta( the manor, borough, and abby ; and, in a fubfequent correfpondence, fupplied me with feveral valuable materials, concerning the an¬ cient and prefent flare of this town.
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By an aft palled 26 H. VIIl. this town was made the fee of a fuffragan bifhop to the bilhop of Sarum. This aft was repealed 1 and 2 Phil, and Mary, but revived 1 Eliz. 30 H. VIII. John Bradley, S. T. B.
abbot of Milton, and William . S. T. B. were
prefented to the king for his nomination. Bradley was nominated bilhop, and the archbifhop required to proceed to confecration. He was the firft and la ft fuffragan here k.
This place had the honour to give the title of earl to Anthony Alhley Cooper, baron Afhley, of Win- born St. Giles, created earl of Shaftfbury 23 April, 1672 ; which honour is now enjoyed by his defen¬ dant, Anthony earl of Shaftfbury.
To pafs over the fabulous accounts in the Britifh age, which have been before-mentioned, we find no mention of this town under the Romans, nor are there any marks or traces of thofe people to be found here ; fo that Ur. Holland, who, in his additions to Camden’s account of Dorfet, fays, he had heard, that in the weft end of the old chapel of St. John flood a Roman in- fcription reverted mult have been mifinformed. It is certain, that in the Saxon age it became a place of great note, on account of its monaftery, and the tranflation of the body of Sr. Edward hither. King Athelftan fixed here two mints, which in the time of Edward the Confeffor were increafed to three h In this town king Canutus ended his days, 1035, 2 id. Nov. and was buried in the old monaftery at Win- cheiter. In lucceeding ages we find hardly any re¬ markable tranfaftion here.
John Peckham, archbifhop of Canterbury, between 1278 and 1294, excommunicated fir Ofbert Gifford, lent, for Healing two nuns out of the nunnery of Wilton, and abfolved him on thefe conditions : that he fhould never after come into a nunnery, or into ihe company of nuns : that he fhould, for three Sun¬ days together, be whipped in his parifh church of Wilton, and as many times in the market and church of Shaftfbury ; and faft a certain number of months, and not wear a fiiirt for three years ; and not take upon him the habit or title of a knight, but wear apparel of a ruffet colour, till he had ferved three years in the Holy Land m. In a warrant dated at Windfor, 1313, direfted to the flieriff, it is faid the king allowed 20 s. a week for the maintenance of Robert Bruce’s wife, who was a prifoner at Shaflon, probably in the nunnery, from the beginning of this reign, till July 1314, as appears by feveral orders to remove her from one prifon to another ; when fhe was brought before the king at York, probably to be reflored to her hufband, there being no mention of her afterward n.
1 3 Car. I. 1637, an order of feflions was made for taxing* Shaflon divifion, and other divifions of the county, for the relief of the poor here in time of the plague. In 1644, Waller retired hither from Bland - ford, whence he was beaten °. The fame year, Oft. 3, intelligence came, that lately, in and about Shaflon, 600 Swedes, Germans, French, and Wal- lons, under Balfour and Middleton, much oppreffed the country, and raifed on fome 10 s. 40 s. 3 1. a day for their maintenance. Some were fined 300 1. fome ioool. and if the money was not prefently paid, they were plundered and made prifoners. All the fat cattle were driven into Lyme, Pool, and Ware-
ham ; but the king’s approach drove them away L In 1645, Waller advancing into the Weft, quartered about this town and Gillingham *, but his quarters were beaten up by a party of lord Goring’s, who lay before Taunton, twice in lefs than a week, and leffened his numbers near iooo/i.
In Domefdav Book We have this account of the
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town. In Bor go Scepiejberic, T. R. E. were 104 houfes in the king’s demefne. This vill gelded for 20 hides, viz. two marks of filver to the king’s huf- carles. Here were three hunters, each of which paid one mark of filver, and 20 s. when money was coined. Here are now 66 houfes, 38 having been deflroyed, from the time of Hugh the flieriff to the prefent. In that part of the town belonging to the abbefs, T. R. E. were 158 houfes, now but inr 47 being deilroyed. She had here 1 51 burgeffes, 20 empty dwelling-houfes, and one garden, val. 63 s.
The Manor feems, by the furvey in Domcfday Book, to have been very anciently divided into two moieties, whereof one belonged to the king, or his grantees or leffees ; the other to the abbefs ; and fo continued to the diffolution, when they were united. Mention is made in the court-rolls of the king’s fee, and the abbefs’s fee ; which lall had a bailiff and collector, as appears from their computus’s, t. E. IV. and H. VII. 31 E. I. the pleas and perquifites of court, which yet belonged to the crown, hi this vill, value 12 1. were granted to queen Margaret , in part of her dower [ dotalitium ] in recompence of fome; other lands granted her 27 E. I. after regranted to others. Mr. Willis r fays, that 1 E. 111. Edmund Plantagenet, earl of Kent , fon of king Edward I. and his heirs, had a grant of this manor. John, his younger fon, heir, to his elder brother Edward, dying without ifl'ue, 26 E. III. it probably reverted to the crown. But Dugdale s fays, it was a place in De- vonfhire, called Shejlebeare , or Shaftebere , now7 Sbeb- bear, which in fome records is mifiaken for Shaftf¬ bury ; nor does it appear from any other records that this family had ever any concern here.
23 E. III. Margaret Bettejhorn , at her death, held 16 s. yearly rent in this vill, together with the pro¬ fits of a moiety of the toll of the inheritance of John de Burgo, a minor in the king’s cuflody. John her fon and heir, 20 years old h 16 R. II. the abbefs had a grant from the king of the farm of the vill, val. 12 1. and the profits of the courts, See. 22 R. II.
. Bettefhorn held the premifes mentioned in the
record 23 E. III. 6 H. VI. John Berkeley, chev. held, by the law of England, after the death of Elizabeth his wife, a moiety of 33 s. xod. yearly, ilfuing out of ten burgages in this borough ; a moiety of 33 s. 4d. yearly rent, ilfuing out of the lhambles [de fcabell. ] here : a moiety of 23 s. rent ilfuing yearly out of an ancient cullom, called Stodegawel , and Worthinggawyl u, here : a moiety of an yearly rent of 2 s. called Brevingavoyl, here : a moiety of an yearly rent of 1 1 s. called EolJ'eld, here : a moiety of certain amerciaments, ilfues, profits, &c. happen¬ ing here, concerning oxen and cattle, called wayfsr and llrays, and other forfeitures : and a moiety of the toll of all the markets, and one fair called, Mar¬ tins fair, here : Maurice his fon and heir.
k Pulton’s Stat. & Rymer, Feed. t. XIV. 601. * Lambard’s Saxon Laws, at the end of Bede’s Hill. ra Weaver’s Fun. Mon.
p. 220. " Rymer’s Feed. t. III. 489. 0 Clarendon, vol. II. 341. rMercurlus X'ulieus. s Clarendon, vol. II. 635. r Not.
Pari. vol. II. 476. Rot. Cart. ii. III. 3. tn. 81. 5 Baron, t. II. 94. Efc. 26 E. III. n. 54. Rot. Claui. 27 E. III. m. 23. and
14. r Fife.
u What the frill of thefe tolls was does not appear. The latter was probably fome rent or fine arifing from certain houfes or cottages. IFurt/j, curtis five habitatio. Spelm. GlolT. in v. ex Matth. Wellm. Flores Hi ft. p. 321, n. 10. Bre-xyn^dbel may be fines on brewers, as lines on bakers are mentioned hereafter. Toljcld may b« a tole or rate levied on goods ex poled to fate in the market.
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SHAFTSBUR Y.
The goods of felons were equally divided between fir Maurice Berkeley and the lady abbefs.
At a court-leet of the king’s held io May, 25 H. VI. in the fifth year of E. Bonham, abbefs, William Ca- rent, fenefchall, the jury prefent, “ Qf Will. Bull- “ fynche caufa fufpicionis felonie apd Shafton capt’ “ fnit, & ad gaolam D. Regis de Dorchftr’ miffus, “ & ibid’ in prifona exiftit’ & afeftat’; funt de bonis “ & catallis fuis, caufa felon’ predift’, & pofit’ in “ abbia, fub cultod’ D. Hen’ Gaveler receptor, de- “ narior’ Shafton prediff’ 1 equus cum fell’ & freno, “ pt’ 14s. 3 d.; 1 par de bowges*, pt* 2 s. ; 1 gla- “ dius cum armilaufa y, pt’ 14s. 14 d. ; 2 burfe, 1 “ pawtener z cum zona, pt’ 6 d. ; 1 par de fifers, pt’ “2d.; 1 dagger, pt’ 16 d. ; 1 par ocrear’, & 1 par tc calcar’, pt’ 20 d.; 3 facculi cum 4 inftrument’ fer- “ reis in eis impofitis, & feruris apperiend’, cum 1 “ velo, pt’ . . . 1 annulus aureus ponderans, 5 s. * 2 d. ; 2 virge de Braban’ cum 1 veteri flammea *, “ pt’ 14 s. ; in denar’ ultra expens balti ipfum cuRo- “ dient’ &ducent’ ad DorcheRer, 17 d. ; 1 caleptru b “ de Burnet, pt’ id.; 1 liber matutinalis B. Marie,
pt’ . . . qoe oi’a prfcript’ five preciu rem’ in cuRo- fc dia, quoufq; &c. quae poRea equaltr fuere intr’ “ Dnam Sc Dnum Mauriciu Berkeley divila.”
33 H. VI. John Whitenow, deputy of John AnRil, the king’s bailiff, charges 3 s. delivered to Henry Gaveler, the abbefs’s receiver, for making fetters for divers prifoners. In the computus of the faid John Whitenow for a year to Mich. 36 H. VI, the 16th year of Edith Bonham, William Carent then fe- pefchal, he charges himfelf with the receipt of 33 s. Ad. for the rent of four fhambles, the moiety where¬ of belonged to Maurice Berkeley, kt. which, with the other parts of the vill, fibi integraliter debit’, to the lady abbefs for cvi s. vm d. *, of 12 s. for wortliyngabel ; of 6 s. 8 d. for fines of bakers, &c. ; of 2 s. of the heir of John Bettefhyre, pro aief- ment. Tollnet ; of 15 s. for brewyngabell ; of ... . for the toll of the market, iffuing out of the box of John Pole, Mayor : The moiety of all which fums are faid to belong as before. He alfo charges the fiipend of the fenefchall of the borough, for the king’s court, 33 s. 4 c!. for this year, and 8 d. for parchment ; whereof fir William Berkeley’s part for the Ripend was 16 s. 8 d. and for parchment 4 d.
38 H. VI. Maurice Berkeley [or de Gaunt, from the place of his nativity], kt. of BeverRoUe, held at his death, the moieties, &c. before-mentioned; Maurice Berkley, of Bettelhorne, his fon and heir, aged 26 c. The computus of Thomas Bartelmew, the king’s bailiff, for the year ending at Michaelmas, 37 II. VI. William Carent, fenefchall ; and the com¬ putus of John Botyler, wever, the king’s bailiff, ir and 12 E. IV, contain the fame articles as the com¬ putus of Whitenow ; only in the laR, a moiety of the whole rent of affize of the ferm of Chriftmas is faid to belong to M. Berkeley. 1 E. IV. at a court- leet the abbefs was prefented for fullering the pil¬ lory on Cornhill to decay. The computus of Rich. Rede, deputy of Thomas Peris, the king’s bailiff for the year, ending at Michaelmas, 10 H. VII, the third year of Alice Gibbes, abbefs *, that of Thomas Sparke, deputy of John Aylh, the king’s bailiff for the year, ending at Michaelmas, 12 H. VII, the fifth year of Alice Gibbes ; and that of Richard Rede, deputy of William Gilbert, prior of Bruton, the king’s bailiff for the year, ending at Michaelmas, 13
Hi VII, the firff year of Margery Twyniho 4, con¬ tain all the fame articles, only the moiety aforefaid is faid to belong to William Berkeley, kt.
That the tnanor was divided between the king’s grantee* or leffee, and the abbefs, appears farther from the courts held in it.- There were two courts- leet held yearly, one the Friday after Michaelmas, the other foon after Hokkeday, or Hocktide. The Ryle of it Was* Curia legalis D. Regis ; the year of the king and the abbefs, in which it was held, being always mentioned. At the Michaelmas court, the mayor, coroners, conftables, and the king’s bailiff were chofen by, and fworn into their office before primus quejhis , or the twelve jurors. The perquilites of thefe courts ex parte regis, ex parte abbaiifjie , arc always fet down diftindlly at the foot of the court- roll. In the computus of William Stone and John Wykes, bailiffs and ' colleffors of the rents of the fee of the lady abbefs, it E. IV, and 13 H. VII, they acknowledge the receipts of the profits of courts held within the gate of the abbey, and of two court-Ieets held in the vill, in the abbefs’s fee, for which laft they refer to the king’s roll : alfo for courts of pie-powder, weighing of wool, piccage and kevage [coverings for their Hall or Handings J, fe¬ lons goods, &c. The king alfo held another court, generally every three weeks, which is Riled limply, Curia D. Regis , and is a court of pleas for civil ac¬ tions.
From thefe records it is evident, that this manor was divided between the abbefs and the Berkeleys : whether the former held her part by grant of the crown in fee, or by leafe, is uncertain. By the re¬ cord 16 R. II. it appears, that Hie had fometimes the farm of the vill, and fometimes the cuHody of the whole ; for, 10 E. IV, on the relloration of Henry VI, he granted, for life, to George duke of Clarence , 12 1. per annum, being the cuRomary payment of the abbefs and convent for the cuRody of the town x. Nor is this to be wondered at ; all religious houfes in thefe times embraced every opportunity of engrof- fing every branch of power and profit to themfdves wherever they were concerned.
The Tolls. 8 E. III. Richard Scammel held half the profits of the tolls of this vill e. The farm of the toll of the town was granted to the abbefs by K. Richard [f. II.] f.
T. H. I, or 5 Steph. the flieriff accounted for cer¬ tain arrears of aid from the town of St. Edward, be- caufe of its poverty. Vicecomes reddit computu ’ in pardonis , per breve regis, burgenfibus de S1" Edwardo , 40 s. pro paupertate ejus , & quietus eft s. 14 H. III. a tallage was affefled on Schafteburia h. 19 El. III. a tallage was fet in the counties of Dorfet and So- merfet by William Wudiet and his companions : the vill of Schafteburia owed 100 s. *.
The Manor of the Abbefs.
The abbefs held a court every three weeks, on Wednefdays, Riled Curia D. Abbatijfe , as appears by feveral court-rolls t. E. II, H. VI, and E. IV, and it is faid in the computus of Mr. Stone and Mr. Wykes, the abbefs’s bailiffs, to be held infra portam abbathice. The perquifites of this belonged wholly to the abbefs. She alfo held another court, Riled
K A pair of bags. Du Cange, doff. y Poflibly armour covering the fhoulders, as a tile covers the roof. Carpentier, in art. Losa, which he renders a tile. Or it may be a target. z Pcpurfe with a girdle. Pautoniere is old French for a purle. a Two JJ.o t
Brabant /wards, with an old lance. Du Cange. A cap or bonnet. t Efc. d Or the Turn worth family. See Turnworth.
r. Rymer’s Feed. t. XL p. 70 2. f Kalend. Muniment. s Mag. Rot. t. H. I. Do if. et Somerf. Maejbx? Firma Burgi, 288,
and Hift. Excheq. c. xv. § 10. p. 418. h Mag. Rot. Somerf. Hi Dorf. & Madox, Hid. Excheq. p. 489. 1 Mag. Rot. Dorl. Sc
Somerf. m. 16. Madox, ibid. p. 506, 589.
Curia
SHAFTS
Curia Legalis Feodor um BarorJa, at which the bailiffs of the manor of Tiffebury, Hanleigh, Kihgfton, he. attended, and the men of Fontmel, Compton, W. Orchard, he. are faid to be in the jurifdiclion of this court, which feems to have been held every three weeks for pleas of debt, he. as appears by feveral court-rolls t. H. VI. The perquifites of this be¬ longed alfo wholly to the abbefs. This court was probably peculiar to the manor and tenants of the abbey without the town. Mr. Willis fays, that in many great abbey-towns there was both a fpiritual and a temporal manor, the frit being veiled in the mo- naftery, and the other belonging to the king, or fome lay lord ; and they were checks upon one another.
i E. VI. the king granted to Thomas IVriothef- ley, earl of Southampton, and his heirs, this ma¬ nor (probably both moieties), the town, borough, feite, and precincls of the late monaftery of Shaftef- fbury, and all meffuages, lands, &c. belonging to the fame, in the pariih of St. Peter, St. Laurence, St. James, St. Martin, and the Holy Trinity ; and the advowfons and right of patronage of the recto¬ ries and churches of St. Peter, St. Laurence, St. Martin, and the Holy Trinity k. 7 E. VI. the pre¬ mises, the courts, the views of frank-pledge of the manor, the manor of Barton, late belonging to fir Thomas Arundel, attainted, were granted to William earl of Pembroke for 8447 1. 7 s. 2 d. Sir Thomas Arundel had, t. H. VIII, the grant of feveral manors belonging to this monaftery ; particularly, 37 Id. VIII, tne manors of Barton, in the parifhes of St. Peter and St. Rumbald, French-Mill in St. Rumbald’s, and the advowfon of that reeftory : and, 7 E. VI, Margaret, his relief, had a grant of feveral manors belonging to this monaftery, one third of the manor of Barton, and the feite of this monaftery, parcel of her huf- band’s poffeffions : but it feems only to have been for her life ; fo that it is not very clear that the manor, and the whole feite of the monaftery, ever belonged to that family long. Certain it is, that it continued in the Pembroke family many years after ; for, about 1680, Philip, earl of Pembroke, fold the advowfons of the churches to fir John Nicholas, knight of the Bath, fon of fir Edward Nicholas, let. fecretary of ftate, anceftor to the prefent proprietor ; and con¬ veyed the royalty of the manor and borough to An¬ thony AJhley Cooper, earl of Shaftfbury, in whole family they ftill remain b
Here was an ancient freehold in this town. 2 H. II. Radulph de Lanuval held in Shaftsberie 20 1. m. 12 and 13 John, William de Lanvaley held ten librates here, a tenant of the king’s demefne n. 23 H. III. William Lanuval paid 1 o 1. blank here °. The daughter and heir of William de Lanvale were in cuftody of Hubert de Burgh, jufticiary, by the advice of K. Henry III, and her land in Kingfton w'as worth 10 1. p. Ralph Fitz-Pain held in Burgo de St. Ed- 'ivardo a liberate of land, of William de Larneley, by fervice of one knight’s fee, given by king Henry, grandfather of Henry II, to the faid William ^ . Thefe lands probably came to the abbey by grant or purchafe. Here was another freehold held, 2 H. VIII, by Stephen Payne at his death, viz. feven meffuages, three gardens in Shafton, of rhe abbefs, forty acres of land, in Bell, of the earl of Northumberland, and 78 acres of land, in the hundred of Alcefter, of the abbot of Evelham, by rent of 5 s. r.
bury. 9
The Boroug/i.
It is a very ancient borough, being fo ftiled in Domefday Book. It was formerly incorporated by prefeription, and had a mayor and feveral burgeffes. 7 L. II. Allan de Wykc Prcpofitus Burgi , and Will. Greyftock Ballivus, are mentioned in a roll of court- leet. Queen Eliz. gave the firft charter, a. r- . . and granted a mayor, a recorder twelve aldtrnlen, a bailiff, and a common-council. King James I. a. r. 2, 1604, granted another, when John Nichols is named mayor, John Bowden, gent, recorder, and William Sabadge, town-clerk. King Charles II, a. r. 17, granted them another charter, which refers to that of 2 Jac. I. and differs very little from it ; wherebv he appointed a mayor, to be chofen annually the Monday before, and fvvorn the Friday after Michael¬ mas ; twelve capital burgeffes, to hold, quamdiu fs bene gejferint ; a recorder, and town clerk, to hold, durante bene placito, of the mayor and capital bur¬ geffes, either of whom may execute his office by a deputy ; no man to be chofen mayor within three years of his former mayoralty ; and if any perfon chofen fhall refufe to acl, he is to forfeit ten pounds for the ule of the borough, and may be fent to the county gaol till payment, in which cafe another of the capital burgeffes is to be chofen in his place ; power to make, revoke, and alter by-laws, and to inflift proper punifliments for non-cbfervance of them, fo that nothing be done contrary to the laws of the land ; the limits of the town to extend as far, and a power of perambulation as heretofore a court of record every Saturday, to hold pleas of all trefpaffes, he. and of all debts, he. not exceed¬ ing 10 1. ; two ferjeants at mace, to be chofen yearly the Monday before Michaelmas, to execute precedes,' he. attend on the mayor, and carry before him maces gilt, or^of filver, with the king’s arms en¬ graven thereon ; the mayor to be clerk of the market ; a coroner to be chofen every year on the Monday aforefaid •, power in full court to elect and fwear fuch attorneys, and other inferior officers as fhall be thought fit ; the mayor, during his mayoralty, as alfo the recorder, to be juftices of the peace, with au¬ thority to enquire into all trefpaffes and final! of¬ fences within the borough, but not in cafes where life or member is concerned ; a fair from the eve to the morrow of St. Martin, with a court of pie¬ powder, &c. the tolls thereof, he. to the mayor and burgeffes ; licence to purchafe lands; not ex¬ ceeding 100 marks per annum, with power to any perfon to grant or fell accordingly, notwithftanding the ftatute of mortmain, &c. j a confirmation of ail things formerly enjoyed by them, though difeon- tinued or forfeited, without any .hTo warranto, or moleftation ; provifo, that if any perfon hereafter to be chofen recorder, or town-clerk, lhall by war¬ rant under the king’s fign manual, be difapproved of, the ele&ion to be void, he.
N. B. There is no fuch claufe as this laft in the charter of king James I ; but this might give occafion to king James II, to extend it farther.
Accordingly by an order of council, dated 27 Nov. publilhed 28 Nov. 1687, he ordered the corpora¬ tion to remove William Franklin, the mayor ; Wil¬ liam Bowles, efq. juftice of the peace, and one of the burgeffes ,- John Harris, William Chamberlain,
k Rot. Pnt.
0 Dodfvv. v. XV. 4157. Mag. Rot; * Eic.
VOL. II.
1 Willis Not, Parliam. v. II. 474.
p Dugd. MS. Mufeum, Teft. Nevil.
Dodfiv. v. XII. 4 r 54. Mag. P>.ot.
n Ex Lih. Rub. s Inq.fi. E. Iff lib. Ill Cotton. Lib. Julius C.’ 1, 2.
Jafper
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Jafper BaniRer, Lewis Evans* John Snook, Simon Whetcomb, and Thomas Hackny, burgeffes ; and fir Henry Butler, recorder; and required them to deft Richard Hurman mayor, Peter Benner, juflice of the peace, and one of the burgdfes, Nathanael Ernie, Anthony Morrell, Abraham Matthew* John Ring, John Butler, John Arney, and John Combe, bur^ geffes* and William Benoet recorder, and juftice of the peace, in their room, without adminilfering unto them any oath, but the ufual oath for the execution of their refpeftive places, with which he was pleafed to dilpenfe in this behalf. This pretended power of removing the officers is to be underRood of a charter granted by king James II. himfelf, for no Rich claule is found in the charter of Car. II. Whe¬ ther this new charter was revoked the year following, or otherwife annulled is uncertain. It is agreed that the charter granted by K. Charles was never given up ; but being fecreted by Mr. Attwell, the town-clerk, was produced upon the change of times, and is the fame by virtue of which the corporation aft at this day.
The charter of Charles II. refers to that of James I, and both to divers charters of preceding kings, but without naming any ; and both call it an ancient and populous borough, as well by reafon of divers pre- feriptions and cuftoms, time out of mind, as by vir¬ tue of the faid charters. Here are now a mayor, twelve aldermen, a recorder, and town-clerk, incor¬ porated by the charters of James I. and Charles II. The mayor was anciently chofen out of two burgeffes, by the twelve jurors, or primus quejlus , of the king’s court-leet, held the Wednefday after Michaelmas- day, with the affent of the commonalty of the bo¬ rough ; which jury then alfo chofe two coroners, two cotiflables, and the king’s bailiff, who were all then fworn before the faid jury into their offices, as appears by the rolls of the king’s court-leet, 25, 39 H. VI, 11, 15, 20 E. IV, and 3 H. VII. The mayor is now chofen according to their laffi charter. Anciently there was no officer known by the title of recorder ; but there was one of the fame nature, lliled Confiliarius Communitatis Burgi Shajion , as appears by the computus of the common wardens 14 E. IV. hereafter mentioned. By the charter 2 Jac. I. the ancient Rile of Major ft? Communitas Burgi de Shajion , was altered to that of Major ft? BurgenfeSy &c. and Rill continues.
In a computus of Robert Stedman and John Boti- ler cuftodes, or cmnerarii of the rents of the commu¬ nity of this borough 1 3 E. IV, we have thefe parti¬ culars relating to it, viz. the charge for feven dozen fduoden’ J and one quarter of bread, bought for the anniverlary of the benefaftors of the faid community,
7 s. 3d*; and for three dozen and one quarter of ale, 7 s. 3 T d. ; for cheefe, 3 s. ad.*, paid to the priefls, clerks, and other literati , 7 s. 10 d. ; for ringing the bell, 4 d. ; to the crier, for proclaiming the faid anniverfary through the vill, 2 d. ; for white bread, 1 2 d. 4 for horfe bread s [_panis equinusft i 2 cl. ; for two pitchers [lagena~\ of wine, given to the king’s juRices of affize, iod. ; and for a breakfaR of the burgeffes, 14 d. Alfa paid for one entire fifteenth, granted to the king by parliament, to the king’s col- leftor, by the hand of Philip Goodman, 7.I. by that of Thomas Piercy, 1 1 s. 8 d. ; by thofe of the com- putants, 30 s. 4c]. together with 27 s. 6 d. levied
of the tenants of . in AlynceRer hundred,
and in gifts, to John HenxRrig, one of the king’s
S B U R Y.
collectors in this county, 40 s. Alfo to John New¬ burgh, counfellor of the community of the borough, for his Ripend, 26 s. 8 d . ; to William Coteler, the mayor’s mace-bearer, his Ripend, 6 s. 8 d. ; and the Ripend of the computant . . s.
Anciently the mayor had but one mace carried be¬ fore him, as appears by an entry in the common war¬ den’s computus, 14 E.1V. Et in '/Upend* Wilt’i Coteler , clavam ferente coram Ph’o God/nan tunc mahr’ burn predict’ vjs. viij d. The arms, on the broad end of the old one, are three compartments per pale, 1, three Rears de lys 1 and 2, and under them the three lions of England; 2. a crols patonce between four martlets, On a chief two fofes ; 3. a lion, or l'ome other beaft (ill done) pawing again R a branch of a tree. The more modern mace has the arms of kin0* James, with the letters J and li on she Tides of the Ihield, and over it the date 260a.
1
The Arms of the town are a crofs between two fleurs de lys, and as many leopards faces. The co¬ lours are not known.
This town fends two members to parliament. The right of election was fettled by this refold tion of the Houfe of Commons 16^5. Refol'ved, That the right is not only in the mayor and burgeffes, but in the inhabitants of the faid borough,, paying fcot and' lot. The number of electors are about 300, or upwards.
A Lift of the Representatives in parliament for this Borough, from Willis’s Noth. Parliam. v. IL 478 — 483. and v. III.
EDWARD I.
2 3 P. at Weft. John Cockaine, Elugh Gappe.
26 7'ork, Roger le Teynturer, William Langecock.
28 Lond. Walter Snowden, or Sendan, John Vigo¬ rous.
30 - William Sefewcod, Thomas Sharewood.
33 - Laurence Pynge, jun. John de Wilton.
04 - William Aunkehill, John de [f. Wilton..]
35 Carli/lcy Walter Sandon, ilamond le Lange.
E D W A R D II.
1 Torky R.obert de Monte Alto, Richard Normayne.
5 Lond. Walter Sandon, Hamon le Lange.
6 Weft. Walter Sandon, Thomas Steerman, or
Shareham.
7 - John Hatche, John le Read.
8 - Walter de Soudon, John Vigerous.
1 5 Torky John le Mai [f. Hull] John lc Ston.
16 Wejl. Richard Kinemere [f. Kymer] John Coc¬
kayne.
19 - : Roger Luff, jun. William Vjfugqre, or Vi¬
gerous.
EDWARD III.
1 Torky Richard Palmer, John de Hull.
1 Weft. Thomas Berewyk .
2 North . Richard le Palmere, Richard de Kyne-
mere.
4 Winch. Pvichard de Kynemour, William Vigerous.
6 Weft. John Anketill, John Bray.
7 - Robert Anftill, Walter Sondon.
9 - Peter Mankerneys, Walter Sondon.
5 Perhaps brown bread.
9 Torky
SHAFT*
9 York, John Anketill, John le Draper*
10 Counc. at Nottingham* John Anketill, William
Sondon.
1 1 Weft. John Sutton .
1 1 Counc. at Weft. William Anketyll, Thomas Pla-
tell, and John Selcd.
1 2 Weft. Thomas Platell, William Anketyll.
14 — : — John Steerman, Thomas Platell.
i 5 - John de. Wyke .
15 - Robert Axtell, John Steerman.
17 - William le Mew, Thomas Platell.
20 - Thomas de Trent, John de Wyke.
21 - John Wyke, John Steerman.
22 - - Roger de Manyngford, William Hacke-
vill.
22 - - John de Wyke, Walter de Thornhull.
24 - John Luff, John Piggorw
28 - - John Pyron [f. Pig&ofi]$ John Luff.
29 — — Robert Fovent, John SHarnthorne.’
31 - Walter Perle, Edward Barnabe.
32 - - John Pygeon, John Luffe.
34 - Edmund Barnabe, Thomas Ayleron [f. Al¬
ton.]
34 - John Pyronne [f. Pigon], Edmund Barnabe.
36 - William Small bergh, john Moryn.
37 - Walter Henley, Alan Caunfted.
43 - Walter Henley, Edward Barnabe.
45 Council at Winch. Walter Henle.
47 Weft. William Anketill, John Luffe.
R I C II A R D II.
• . , 1 , 4 I * wfc • • • »
1 P. at Weft; Walter Haule, Thomas Bache.
2 - Ditto, Ditto.
3 - Walter Haulegh, Thomas Cammel.
c, - Ditto, Ditto.
(> - » Ditto, Thomas Seward.
-7 - Walter Hawle, Thomas Seaward.
7 New Sarum, Walter Haule, Thomas Caihritel;
N. B. Hawle arid Seward were chofen and re¬ turned ; but the IherriffStreche arbitrarily re¬ turned Cammel for Seward, and the burgeffes petitioned both houfes of parliament b
8 Weft. Walter Sowdon, Robert Mohawyt.
7 - Walter Haulegh $ Thomas Cammel.
10 — — Edward Lance, Richard Payne.
1 1 - Thomas Camenew, Thomas Seaward.
1 2 Ctimbi Hugh Croxale, R.oger Pyron [f. Pyton.j
15 Weft. Thomas Cammel, John Whiting. ..
16 Winch. Ditto, Walter Biere.
1 7 Weft. Ditto, Robert Bear.
1 8 - Walter Biere, John Whiting.
20 - Ditto, John Hordure.
2 1 - Ditto, Hugh Croxfale.
HEN R Y IV.
i - Walter Biere, Thomas Cammel.
3 - Ditto, Ditto.
8 done. John Boke [f. Bole], John Bremar.
'A 't * r
H E N II Y V.
1 Weft. Walter Biere, John Bole.
2 Leiccft. Walter Byer, Thomas Hat.
3 Weft. Ceclu/a mane a.
5 - Walter Byer, Robert Fry.
7 GIouc. Robert Fry, John Scarburgh.
8 Weft. John Bole, Robert Squibb.
9 - Robert Sqybb, John Hody.
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HEN R V VI.
i - — - John Hody, Robert Sqybb-
3 — . Ditto Ditto.
4 Leic. Robert Wilkins, John For dm b Weft. John Hody, Robert Tourges.
8 - William Moreton, Alexander Hody.
9 — — . Richard Byle, Walter Refon.
1 1 - William Lovell, William Kdlaway.
1 3 - William Morton, William Lovell.
1 5 Camb. Ditto, Ditto.
20 Weft. William Reyot, William Rempffon.
25 Camb. William Twynio, Robert Talbot.
27 Weft. Samfon Brown, Richard Daverfes.
28 - Nicholas Petyr, Thomas Crofs.
29 — — . Thomas Walround, Pvichard Percy.
3 1 Reading , Giles Daker, John Pole.
33 Weft. John Bicknell, Stephen Hatfield.
39 - Chriftopher Wode, Thomas Hargyl;
EDWARD IV.
7 Weft. Thomas Hardgill; Thomas Pole.
1 2 - John Skoyll, John Latimer.
17 - Robert Morton, Thomas Hufee.
EDWARD VI.
1 - 1 Matthew Ar undell ......
7 - John Gapper .
MARY.
i - John Gapper, John Flvell.
1 Oxford , John Denham, John Gapper, gents*
PHILIP and MARY.
1 and 2 Weft. John Gapper, Matthew Arundell.
2 and 3 - Henry Forfter, Do.
4 and 5 - William Grove, Hugh Hawker, gent,
ELIZABETH.
1 - John Smith, kr. Henry Coker.
5 - Henry Iden, William Jorden, efqrs.
13 - John Long, Thomas Morgan, gents.
14 - - Charles Vaughan, Robert Grove, efqrs.
27 - Thomas Cavendifh, Bartholomew Kemp,
efqrs.
28 - Francis Zouche, Gregory Sprint, efqrs.
31 - Thomas Crompton, Michael Hicks, gents,
35 - - Arthur Atye, efq. Michael Hicks, gent.
39 - Francis James, chancellor of Briffol, . . «
• • • * • . • •_
43 - Arthur Meffenger, John Budden, gent.
.7.
JAMES I.
1 - Robert Hobfon, efq. John Boden, gent.
12 - Miles Sands, kt. [In his place, chofen for
Cambridge univerfity, Simeon Steward, kt.] . .
18 - Thomas Sheppard, and \Villiam Baker, or
Beecher, of London, efqrs. who were both ex¬ pelled the houfe, and in their room Piercy Her¬ bert, and Ralph Hopton.
21 - John Thoroughgood [waved for Leominfter*
e. Hereford], William Whitaker, efqrs.
CHARLES I.
1 . - John Thoroughgood, Will. Whitacre, efqrs.
’■ Prynne.
t Weft,
12
S H A F T S B U R Y.
i Weft. Samuel Turner, William Whitaker.
3 - =- John Croke, kt. John Thoroughgood, efqr.
15 - William Whitacre, recorder, Samuel Turner,
efqrs. [in his room, chofen for Wotton-B after, Edward Hide. ]
1 6 - Samuel Turner, M. D. [in his room, de¬
ceafed, John Bingham, efq.J William Whitacre, recorder, efq. [in his room, deceafed* colonel George Star, who alfo dying, John Fry, one of the regicides', was chofen in his room *.]
CHARLES II. c, 6, and 8, none.
1 1 - - Henry Whitaker, James Baker, efq.
12 - — - Thomas Grove, efq. James Baker, gent;
13 — —Henry Whitaker, efq. John Low, made
Mailer in chancery, in his place John Bennet, efq. in whole room, deceafcd, Thomas Bennet. 31 - Henry Whitaker, Thomas Bennet, efqrs.
31 - Matthew Andrews, kt. of Walton upon
Thames, Thomas Bennet, of Shafton, efq,
32 Oxford, Ditto, Ditto.
JAMES IL
1 Weft. Henry Butler* kt. John Bowles, efqr.
WILLIAM' and MARY*
1 - Matthew Andrews, kt. Edward Nicholas, efq.
2 - Matthew Andrews, kt. Edward Nicholas, efq.
WILLIAM HI.
7 - Matthew Andrews, kt. Edward Nicholas, efq.
10 - Edward Nicholas, Henry Cornilh, efq. in
his place, expelled the houfe, Thomas Chafin, efq.
12 — ■= — Edward Nicholas, Thomas Chafin, efqrs.
13 - Edward Nicholas, John Cropley, bart.
ANNE.
1 - John Cropley, bart. Edward Nicholas, efq.
4 - Ditto, Ditto.
7 - Edward Nicholas, Edward Seymour, efqrs.
9 - Edward Nicholas, Edward Seymour, efqrs.
in his place, deceafed, Henry Whitaker, efq.
1 2 - ; Edward Nicholas, efq. Henry Whitaker, efq.
GEORGE I.
1 - Edward Nicholas? William Benfon, efqrs.
in his place, chofen furveyor of the works, fir Edward Defbouverie, bart.
8 - - - Edward Nicholas, efq. [in his place, deceafed,
Stephen Fox, efq.]. Edward Defbouverie, bart.
GEORGE II.
•i - Edward Defbouverie, bart. [ob. 1736],
Stephen Fox, efq.
8 — - — Jacob Bankes [in his place, deceafed, .Philip Bennet, efq.] Philip Bennet, efq. in his place, unduely defied, Stephen Fox, efq.
15 - Charles Ewer, alderman of London, [in
his place, deceafed, George Pitt, jun. efq.] Pe¬ ter Walter, jun. efq.
co" - George Pitt, efq. [in his room, who made
his e left ion for the county, William Beckford, of Fonthill, efq.] Guthbert Ellifon, of Ebbern,
. c. Durham.
27 Wife: Sir Thomas Clavering, bart. James Brude- nell, efq.
GEORGE III.
i — — Sir Gilbert Hetheote, of Normanton, c. Rutland, bart. Samuel Toucher, of London, merchant.
8 - William Chafin Grove, R.alph Payne, efqrs.
13 - Ditto, Francis Sykes, efq. recorder.
The Monastery.
It Was a nunnery of the Benedictine order, at that time the only religious order in the church of Rome, and the original of all the reft. Leland fays *, it was founded by king Ethelbald, and that his bro¬ thers Ethelbert, Ethelred, and Alfred, were alfo con- fidered as founders. Elfewhere he gives this honour intirely to Alfred y. William of Malmfbury z will have it to have been built by Elfgina, Elgefa, orElgiva, wife of king Edmund, great grandfon [pronepos ] of king Alfred, and that fhe was buried here : but fue could only be a benefaftrefs to it, or might repair and adorn it, after fome deflruftion made by the Danes in her time. It is not very improbable that here was a fmall monaftery, as well as a town, before king Alfred’s time : but mod of our hiftorians agree, that it was founded by king Alfred, 888. So the Chronicles of St. Neot’s and Wilton in Le¬ land a. Brompton places it 875. After Meneven- fis, who lived about this time, fays b, that Alfred’ founded by the eaft gate of Sceftafburg, a monaftery for nuns, wherein he placed as abbefs his own daughter -ZEthelgeof, Ayleva, or Ethelgyfva, a vir¬ gin devoted to God, who, with many other noble nuns, ferved God there. About this time he alfo founded Athelney monaftery in Somerfetfhire. But it is mod probable it was built, or rebuilt, about the fame time with the town, between A. D. 885 — 992. The name of the firft abbefs feems to have led Malmesbury into the miftake abovementioned, by which he puts the foundation fome years later. Cer¬ tain it is, that king Alfred was, if not the firft, the principal founder. His charter, in Saxon and Latin, is ftill extant in the regifter of this abbey in the Britifti Mufeum, MS. Harl. 61, and is called Tefta- mentum R. Alfredi. It is written in the running hand of the time when this ehartulary was made, and only the th and w are of the Saxon form ; but as all the language is Saxon, I have put it entirely into Saxon letters.
£if ip Je quite * [a t Alupeb kinj lave to Sceap- tepbupi. Lobe to love q S. Cf)apie q a!pe Dobep halejen. mine paule to yeapne2 q halpe tunjan. Jup an hunt) lube mit) mete q mit mane alfo it ptant. q mine 6octe 3 A^elyve popth unt» Jape epie 4 into Jan nunftpe popjanne hie yap on-bjioken q haboib. q mine pocne into Jan mmptpe Jat ic jelve achte5. Jat ip poppteal q hampocne q munbbpeche ; q Jip ;'ent6 Jape lanbe name Je ic Jibep. cumen habbe.. )at ip at Dunhepet) q at Cumtune xl hi5e. q at banle q Cippic xx hite. q at Tepente x hit)e. q at Ypepne xv lute q at Funtmel xv hibe. q Jip ip topitneppe /t&papb mine pune q Ajepeb apeeb c. q Alchepept bipcop, q Atelheac bipcop, q fulpepe ealtopman, q Applp ealt>opman,q Cut) pet) eal&opman, q Tumbept abb: q Mefcpeb mine Jegm, q A Jeipolp, q Oppic,q Beppulp, qUyme.q loke7 hpa Jepep apap&e %. hebbe Lotep cupp q S. 0?apie q a)le Lotep hale- jep, ac on ecneppe:- Amen:-
‘ 4 jeapnuiij. 3 ajie. 4 bochteji. » ahte. 6 rynb. » loca. s apenbe.
u 1 arl. Journ. x Collectanea, r. I. p. 67. y lb. p. 26. v. III. 293. z Fol. 143. 3 Colleft. v. II. p. 218,
22c. and v. ill. p. 71. b r. 19. Simeon Dunelmenfis copies him. c He was abp. of Canterbury, and died A. D. 888.
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SHAFT
S B U R Y
The purport of it in Englifh is as follows
“ I king Aim ed, to the honour of God, arid the “ Holy Virgin, and all Saints, do give and grant, “ for the health of my foul, to the church of Shaftf- “ bury, 100 hides of land: viz. in Dunheved and “ Compton, 40 hides ; in Henley and Giffig, 20 y in Tarent, 10; in Iwerne, 15; and in Funtemele, “ 15 ; with the men and other appurtenances, as they “ now are, and my daughter Ayleva with the fame ; “ file being in an ill ftate of health, and a nun in
the fame church. Witnefs, See. Wholoever fhall “ alienate thefe things mav he be for ever accurfed “ of God and the holy Virgin Mary, and all the “ faints. Amen.”
It was firft dedicated to the B. V. Mary, bur. it loll that name, at leait for feveral ages, upon the tranflation hither of the body of St. Edward the Martyr, who was murdered at Corf-caftle 18 March, 978, and firft clandeftinely buried at Wareham, whence, according to Leland d, he was next year, or as others, on better grounds, fay, three years afterwards removed to this abbey by Elpher, or Alfer, duke of Mercia, or St. Dunflan, as others, A. D. 980, concerning which fee more before in Corfu- caftle c.
Miracles were foon invented to fupport the fanftity of his remains : for behdes thofe which are pretended to have been wrought after his fir ft interment, and on his removal to Wareham and hither, he had not lain long here before a matron, in the mofl remote parts of England, being lame, the king appeared to her in the night, and ordered her to repair to Shafton to his tomb, and lhe fhould be cured, which accord¬ ingly was done. The body was frit intombed on the N. fide of the principal altar. In 1101 his tomb was fenfibly elevated from the earth, and fhevred he was willing to be removed from that place. He appeared in a vifion to a holy man, and ordered him to go to the abbey of Shafton, to the abbefs, and tell her he would lie in that place no longer, and that fhe fhould relate this to his brother Ethelred. This was done, and the king exprefled a great defire to be prefent at his tranflation [ clevalioni ejus ] : but being hindered by the wars, he ordered the bifhop of Sherborn, and a prelate named Elf- finus, and others, to depofite the body in a fit place after taking it out of the earth. On opening the tomb they perceived a fragrant odour, and taking the reliques out of the tomb, depofited them in a place prepared for them, in the fanftum fanftorum, with the reliques of other faints. The body was taken up twenty-one years after it was firfl intombed. The place at Septonia, where, as Brompton exprelTes it, ejus pul mo (by which, I fuppofe, we are to under- ftand his heart 1 ) Integra viriditate palpitat, is called Edzvardftozce.
Polydore Vergil fays, that the body of St. Edward was removed from Wareham to Glajlon , which is certainly a miftake for Shajlon.
Bromton, William of Malmsbury, and other an¬ cient hiftorians s fay, that part of his body was buried in Lef, or LeoPs, nionaftery, i. e. Leominfter in Herefordfhire. Leland adds , “ the certainty is “ known, that the abbey of Shaftsbury had rule at “ Lemfter, and poffefTed much landes there, and fent
1 3
“ part of the reliques of king Edward the martyr to “be adored there h.” The late reverend Dr. Con- ningsby informed me, that the regifter of Leominfter, in the hands of the late lord Conningsby, fays no¬ thing of this. The fame hiftorians fay, that part of thefe reliques were kept at Abingdon, where, ac¬ cording to Leland l, “ fume fayeth he was brought “ up iii his tendre age.” If this be true, ShaftePoury had only his heart, unlefs we fuppofe the abbefs and convent knew their intereft too well to part with any of thofe reliques; from which they derived fo great an advantage. On this account the abbey and the church received their names from him ; the abbefs was filled abbefs of St. Edward, and the very town almoft loft its old name, arid was called for fome time, Burgus Sa/idi Edzvardi, and Edwardjiewe.
1 liis unfortunate king being efteemed a martyr, and canonized a faint, his lhrine was much reforted to by fuperftitious pilgrims, and perforis of all ranks and qualities, and even by fome of our kings, par¬ ticularly Canute, who died here k. 'Lhe ftflival of this faint was kept on three feveral days ; on the clay he was murdered, March 18, and on the two removes of his body, Feb. 20, and June 20 k He Hands in the Roman Martyrology March 18, where Baronins takes notice of a letter in the regifter of pope Innocent the Vth, who died 1276, for the keeping of St. Edward^ feftival. The feaft of his tranflation was, according to the title of a deed in the Kalerid. Mu¬ niment. to be folemnly obferved through the arch¬ deaconry of Dorfet, and indulgences were granted to thofe that obferved it. In 1317 Roger bifhop of Sarunt granted forty-one days of indulgence on the tranflation, and forty .days on the paflion of St. Ed¬ ward'". In 1412 indulgence was granted to thofe who Vifited, limhta Setndii Edwardi <n. In 1440 the archbifhop of Canterbury decreed the Feaft of the Tranflation of St. Edward to be obferved with double fervice \ fub officio dupljci ] °.
Possessions of this Abbey.
In the Britifh Mufeum, N° 61, is a very ancient regifter of this monaftery in quarto, wrote on parch¬ ment, the titles of each deed with red ink, which is fomewhat decayed. There is no title nor date to it. It is a collection of charters, rentals, and conven¬ tions from the Saxon age, few of which occur after the beginning of Richard II. The firfl part of it feems to be copies at leaf! from fome very ancient original, for the names of the tenants are fimilar to thofe that occur in Domefday Book, nor are there many furnames. Ic probably belonged to fir Simon Dewes, and is the fame quoted by Dugdale in his Monafticon.
Fob 37 — 89 contains a rental of the abbey, ma¬ nors, and lands, names of the tenants, lands they held, and the feveral te-nures and yearly payments in the following places. The account of the churches, or re&ories of Cheflelburn, lwern-Minfter, Melburv, Comptori-Abbas, Fontmell, Stoke-Wake, Tarent- L1 inton, Kingflon in Corfe, and Henley, were cer¬ tainly made iri the Saxon time. Many particulars relating to thefe vills are inferted in their proper places.
d Collect, v. Ill, p. 187. e Vol. I. p. 177, 178. f Bromton apud X Scriptores, p. 8S4, 876. Knighton, who tranfcribes
this fenterree, has pith is ; probnbly a milbake of the tranfefiber. t Knighton, p. 2314. ; Higden, p. 269. ; Leland- Collect, v. It.
p. zp. h Itin. v. IV. r. 177. . Hein* V. VII. p. 70. k Chron. Sax.fA. I). 1036, Ԥee Martyr
Anglic. m Reg. Mortival, inter a£fa, v. II. n Rt;g., Aifcot. a Reg. Halam,
Vol. i. D
I* > > 4
li.
S H A F. T S B U R Y,
•2. and 14. Tifiebury. 3. Holr, 1 6 tenants.
а. Tortlega.
.5. Segilla.
б. Bft*ewica.
7. Chefelborn, 40 ten.
8. Iv/erne, 72 tenants.
9. Meleberia, 50 ten. to. Cumptone, 44 ten. 1 1. Fontemele, 65 ten. la.DeArchet.
•i 3. 'Stokes, 22 tenants.
15. Dunheved.
16. Hanlege, 89 tenants.
17. Hampton.
21. Tarent, 33 tenants. Briftetun.
Chefelbury, 2 ten. Canna, 1 tenants. Kyn gefion, 51 ten. Lidentone.
Bradford.
32. Arne.
•23.
24,
25
26 27,
Lands belonging to the abbey t. E. I. fol. 34.
Melebere.
Bradford manor.
Atteworth.
Wrockefliale.
Troll.
Holt.
Wynefleigh.
Wolveleigh.
Ludington.
Dunnington.
Tyflebury.
Dunheved, c. Wilts.
Hanlegh.
Tarent.
Prefton.
Iwerne.
Funtmele.
Compton.
Henton.
Stures.
Pimpefn, 1 hide.
La Saunde, 1 hide. Chefelbern.
Kingefton.
Mapeldure.
Aimer.
Stok.
Shafion 50 s. rent by fervice of two knights fees, a tempore Will. Bafiardi.
Taxat. Baronim Shafton per Epifc. Winton & Lin¬ coln. 1293, fol. 106.
Villa Shafton, 50 s.
Stures, 1.5.1*
Berton in Shafton, 14 1.
Melbury and Compton, 40 1.
Funtamel,
Yewerne,
Henton,
Candel,
Henlege and Guffich, Tarente,
Kyngefton,
Cheffelborn,
Maplederton,
Almere.
38 1. 32 1.
24 1.
100 s. 30 s.
i 8 1.
36 1.
25 1. 8 1.
18 s.
> Decima,
5 s*
30 s. 28 s.
4 J* 76 s. 64 s. 48 s. 10 s. 60s. 36 s. 72 s. 5°s. 16 s.
2 iF d.
Taxat'10 Beneficiorum Dorfet, p. 120, fans. date.
Iwern-Minfter cum Capell’ pore’, 57 marks.
- - 45
- 38
Gillingham, Funtmel cum pore’,
Melbury-Abbifs, Compton- Abbifs,
St. James’s, Shafton, Tarent-Henton, Chefelborn. —
Aimer, - -
Corf, -
9
— 7
— 1 00 s.
— . 10 marks.
10
— 64
10 1.
The following are not taxed.
Candel, i. e. Purfe-Candel.
St. Peter and St. Andrew,
St. Mary,
St. Laurence,
St. Martin,
J
Shafton.
Officium Diaconi,
Chantry 'of St. Crofs, in Holy Trinity y Shafton. church,
St. Romuald, j
Stoke Wake,
'Lhefe ancient charters alfo occur in the former part of this MS. viz.
King Athelftan gave 1 1 carucates at Funtemel to the abbey in Civit. Shafton (the Saxon bounds are mentioned), A. D. 932, Indidc. 5. fol. 1 1 : alfo bit fex jnanentes cipud Earcnta , A. D. 935, Indict. 7. fol. 1 5.
King Edmund I. gave two manfes of land at Stoke, i. e. Stoke- Wake, with all its appurtenances, to his vaffal Edricus, in truft for this abbey, except exper dition, building of bridges and cailles, dated A. D. 941, Indiftion 14 p.
King Edmund I. confirmed by charter feven
manfes at Chejelbnrn and Winterburn . before
given to the abbey, A. D. 942, Indi£t. 15, fol. 7. He alfo confirmed eleven manfes at Mapledcrtune fMaperton], (Saxon bounds given), A. D. 943, Indict. 16, fol. 10. He alfo gave ten manfes at Lid hit line [Lidington], Saxon bounds mentioned, A. I). 940, Indict. 13, fol. 9. Alfo five manfes at Hahntane [f. Hinton], Saxon bounds mentioned, A. D. 944, Indift. 2, fol. 10.
King Edwig gave to his minifier Witfige feven manfes at Corf and Blackemwell, Saxon bounds men¬ tioned, A. D. 956, Indidf. 14, fol. 16. lie gave to the abbey eighty manfes at Dunheved, E/tunc , Cumtune, Hanlc , and Iwerne, A. D. 956, Indifl. 14, fol. 20.
King Edgar gave 10 cafiates at Uppidclcn (the Saxon bounds mentioned), A. D. 966, fol. 14.
King Edred, in the l'econd year of his reign, gave nine manfes in Burbicinga [Purbeck] in confi- deration of fixty mancufes of pure gold, paid him by the abbefs Elfthrith, or her father 1, A. D. 948, Indift. 6, fol. 48.
King Ethelred gave to prince Alftan two cafiates in Chefelburn, A. D. 8 59 r, Inditt. 3. fol. 19. He alfo gave twenty manfes at Tilbury, A. l3. 984, fol. 3 ; and two manfes at Bradford 1101 r, Indict. 13, fol. 1. He alfo gave five manfes in Chefelborn to Elftan, alderman, fans date.
King Canute gave, or confirmed, fixteen cafiates at Chefilborn, to his minifier, Agemund, A.D. 1019, Indift. 2. fol. 8.
Elfrida, flep-mother of St. Edward, confeious of her guilt in his murder became a bencfa&refs to this abbey.
King Ethelred confirmed to the church of St. Ed¬ ward the grant of twenty manfes of land at cI[(fe- biri [TiffeburjE\ in Wilts, made by his predecefiors. His grandfather, king Edmund, in exchange for But- ticanlea , acquired for his wife Algife, granted this land at Tifsbury for ever to her, who defigned to give it to this place. But king Edwy, uncle to king Ethelred, after her death, took Butticanlea from the monaltery, and gave it Tifsbury. Ethelred con¬ firmed this grant, and reftored a wood called Etc- nylkbar , which fome of his officers had taken from the abbey. Dated 9 84 s.
The fame king Ethelred, by charter, gave to the
p Dugd. Monaft. v. I. p. 214. Ex Regift. Shafttb. in Bib. Duvefian, 1648. nune in Muf. Brit. n. 61. fol. 4. f. 4. Dugd. ib. 2i6» $ Ibid. fol. 2. Dugd. ii£, 216,
** Sic.
' Reg. Shaft.
church
SHAFTSBURY:
church o£ St. Edward the nionaftery and vill of Bradford, to be always fubject to it, that the nuns might have a lafc refuge againft the intuits of the Danes, and on die reftoring of peace, return to their ancient place, but hill tome of the family to remain at Bradford, if it fhould be thought fit by the priorefs. Dated A. D. 1001, Indict. 14 •
A charter of king William to Eularia the abbefs, concerning lands in Kelmeton, Sonlee, and Kenielega,
fans date. . .
A charter of Henry I. to the fame abbefs, fans date. A confirmation or a charter of king Stephen, 1 1 3 A * A charter of ratification of that of Henry I. by
Henry II. ^
A confirmation of a charter or R. I. by K. John. Kin^ Henry I. granted Dunheved manor and hun¬ dred ad vefliment. monialium u ; and alfo, by charter, fans date, granted to the abbey freedom from all tolls A The B?ack Book of the Exchequer informs us, that the abbey of St. Edward, t. r. Hen. . . . found feven knights for the king s fer vice. Of thefc, earl Patrick held one fee, and Roger de Novo Burgo two. Befides tliefe, twelve tenants held twelve hides and fractions.
Tliefe are the names of tliofe who now hold this
fee y :
abbefs, one hide in Stoke ; one and a half in Flt- voorth ; one hide and one virgate i \\ Brallefonc, two hides in, Feme, and one in Fffcqrave, all demefne land. Againlt Turltin, fon of Ileinfred, and his brothers, one hide in Helm done , given with the daughter of Serlo de Burfei •, two hides in demefne in Gerfiz [Gujfage] given with Elvira a nun ; two hides in demefne in Br i defer d, and one in Tarent in demefne, given with the daughter of Garmuc. One mill of demefne ill Dunhcved, againft Oifnund, fon ci Godefcall, one hide and one mill in demefne. Againlt Picot de Bufgate, five hides in demefne, in JJ din tone. Againft Roger Wafpav, two hides in demefne, in Hecch. Againft Alured dc Roxelege, 1 hide and 3 virgateS given with the daughter of Roger de Berkici. Againft the wife of William de Chefijburn, and her fon, half ail hide of demefne ; five hides in Selvehan- ton_ given with the. daughter of Alured de Pinceriia.
He alfo granted two hides, in Fcjiebery , given by Goflelin de Rule with his daughter; two hides in Hand, given by Drogo de Moijte acute. with his daughter ; half an hide in Fame hum, which
AlUJ
Earl Patric held one fee.
Ancellinus Mauduit another.
Jordan de Necke a third.
Thurftan de Hafelden a fourth.
Robert fil. Petri and Roger de Thoka a fifth.
Rower de Novo Burgo held a fixth and feventh, fed contra ec clefiain. He alfo held Elmeham, which yielded to the church 40 s. and. fays lie owes the fervice of half a knight, which W llliam de Glaftonia never had per convert turn ecclefia, or By any abbefs ; and, except thefe, there are fome to whom lands were given after this feoff¬ ment, of the demefnes of the church, by gift of the abbeffes, ad liberum fervitium faciendum cccle- fi*, who held them t. H. and yet hold them, whofe names are,
Alured de Sto Edwardo, two hides, by [ad\ fer¬ vice of half a knight.
Hugh de Chufelborne, two hides and a half, by the fame fervice.
Richard fil. Waringer, one hide ad fextam partem. Wido, one hide ad fextam partem .
Johannes, one hide ad fextam partem.
Nicolaus de Parent, one hide ad fextam partem. Gerardus de Giffard, one hide ad fextam partem. Turftanus de Hafeldene, one hide ad quint am pattern. Roger de Stafford, one hide ad quint am partem. Robert de Etewiihe, one hide and a half ad quintain partem.
Helyas de Elanlege, one hide ad quintain partem. Bartholomew de Falcaham, one hide ad quint am partem.
King John, by charter, confirmed to the church of St. Mary and St. Edward at Shaftelbury, in free demefne, all thofe lands which Emma, the abbefs, proved feiraticnavifi to belong to her, in the pre- fence of king Henry his grandfather, and his barons at Eaylinges \_Ealing~\ viz. againft Hardwin, fon of Elnoth, five hides, in Stoke, of thfe demefnes of St. Edward; againft, Thomas the kinfman of Eularia the
- - - - - - - - - -- - 7 -
fus, the flier iff, held of the land of this church, -and afterwards reftored with his daughter, a nun; one hide and an half in Blaneford, given by Aiulfus the chamberlain, for the foul of his wife ; one. hide and an half in Bradeford and Budcb , bought by Emma, the abbefs, of Saton and his fon 3 ; one virgate in Brunelegb, given by Dunekan with his daughter. The church of Forintone, with the land adjacent to it, and the 'tythes, and a little wear [zvera] given by Odo, fon of Gamelin, with his two daughters. The tythes of the demefnes of Richard de SCt’ Clam, of Wareham, given by him with his daughter, and in the fame, vill 30 acres of his demefnes. The mo- naftery of Kivelia , with the lands and tythes. adja¬ cent to i,t,rgiven by Ernald de K elding, with his kinfwoman. .The chapel of Brodtone, with its lands and tithes, given by Guodreda with her kinfwoman, Albreda de Bofco Roalds?. All thefe were prow d .by abbefs Emma. He alio granted to the fa id. church all liberties, free cuftoms, he. which it had in the time of his grandfather K. Henry; as the charter of K. Henry his father teftifies. He alfo confirmed to Mary the abbefs, the whole hundred of the manor of Bradeford for ever, to be held oy the faid abbey, with all its appurtenances, &c. which the faid abbey, or any abbefs of it, held. Given by the hand of Henry de Welle, archdeacon of Wells at No rh ..... 23 May, a. r. 7, 1205 A The titles of the charters granting the following poffeffions occur in this Kalendar, none of which . have been mentioned before. , .
The manor and appropriation of Bradford , c. Wilts, and the manors of Attewfrpe and Wfhvood, in Brad¬ ford ; the appropriation of, and lands in Ffsbury, c. Wilts ; the manors of Feme and Donyngton the hundred of Domvorth, and tythes and lands in Done- hede St. Mary, &c. ; the manor of Foveni, and lands there ; the manor of Kelvejlon, and lands there ; the appropriation of lalgham in Effex, and lands there; the appropriation of Kyncle ad Edington ; lands in Salijbury and Bri/lol ; the farm of Leighton, . in Shafton, and the appropriation of the church of St. James, and a penlion out of it ; tythes in the manor of Berton and Frauncis or French- Mill, in St. Rowald, and lands there ; the appropriation of the church and prebend of Gillingham, and the advowfon of the
1 Ibid. fol. 1. DugA. t.T.2’16, 217. zDugd. Monaft. 1. 1. 983. cart. 7. John, n. 115.
u Res:. Shafton.
x Ibid. fol. 25.
f jLib. Nig. Scacc. I. 7S,ed. 1772.
vicarage ;
56 SHAFTS BUR Y.
Vicarage a'; all’o four hovfe-load \ funtmagia ] of wood out of the foreft every day, except Sunday, were granted by patent, 14 E. III. 1 he manor of Stour- Eftover -, the manor of Hanleigb , by charter of Wal¬ ter de Knolton ; Wejhvood, fold to the abbels by John de Chapman de Guffych; the church of St. 'Michael Qujfacb , by charter of 'Alan de Dinan ; the manor of 'Gufl'ach St. Andrew, by charter of Roger de Purbyke ; the appropriation of the prebend, the advowfon, farm, and lands in Jwernc-Minficr ; the manor of Candel-Purfe, and lands there ; one hide of land in Fontmel Parra , by charter of Richard de Ac* forde ; one by Roger Durenford, and one by Ralph de. Acforde and Richard de Durenford ; the advow¬ fon of Corfe Go file ; lands in and near Sherborn ; lands in E. and W. Farnham ; the hundred of Hafel- tore ; the manor of King ft on, in Purbeck ; the ad¬ vowfon of the rectory of ‘Thornton ; and a place in Pool , given by William Longfpee.
Befides thefe, the following manors and advowfons belonged to this abby ; viz. the manors of Dulming- ton , Berwick, Comb, Trade ton, Charlcton, and Segge- hztll, in the parifh of St. Leonard’s, all in Wiltlhire ; the manor of Comb-Porter, in Somerfet ; and the manors of Melbury- Abbas and Weft- Aimer, with the advowfons of Ludington reftory or prebend ; and Weft- Aimer, c. Dorfet.
It was one of the beft endowed nunneries in Eng¬ land, except Syon in Middlefex, its revenues being at the fuppreffion rated by Dugdale at 1 1 66 1. 8 s. 9b. and by Speed at 1329b is. 3d. per ann. This occafioned a proverb, mentioned by Fuller in his Church Hiftory, “ That if the abbot of Glaftonbury “ might marry the abbefs of Shaftfbury, their heir “ would have more land than the king of England and if Mr. Udale’s calculation of the true value of abby lands, to be mentioned in Milton-Abbas, be juft, the revenues of this monaftery muft be vaftly great.
The ahbefs was of fueh quality, that fhe was one of the four who held of the king by an en¬ tire barony, and had by tenure privilege of being fummoned to parliament. Sic. though upon account of their fex it was omitted. They had writs directed to them, to fend their quota of foldiers into the field, in proportion to their knights fees E The three others were thofe of Barking in- Effex, St. Mary in Winchefter, and Wilton.
8 H. II. the abbefs of St. Edward paid feven marks feutage c. While this abby was in the king’s hands, the tenants holding of it by knight’s fervice paid aid to the king, pur ftlle marier , 20 s. for each fee J. 33 II. II. the abbefs paid 4 1. feutage of Galway e.
6 11. I. fhe paid feutage for the redemption of the king; 7 1. for feven fees f ; and, 13 John, 20 marks,
4 s. 5 d. for 11 fees, feutage of Wales f. 6 H. III. fhe abbefs obtained the king’s writ, directed to the fheriff of Wilts, commanding him to diftrain the knights who held of the abbefs, for efeuage of the army of Biham, due from the knight’s fees held of her, and fhe of the king in chief ; viz. xs. de feuto s. 30 H. III. fhe paid 7 1. for feven fees, and 68 s. 4 d. for three fees and fraftions, on the aid for marrying the king’s eldeft daughter f. And 38 H. III. 14!. on the aid tor making the king’s eldeft fon a knight b
4 E. I. Dorfeta, the abbefs proffered her lervice for three knights fees-, for all her lands, to be performed by Joint de Mydelton, John de Wymondham, Ni¬ cholas de Bylefden, and Eliam de Throkerynton, with four covered horles h.
The Ar,ms of the monaftery were, Az. a crofs fiory between 4 martlets, O. Dr. 'lanner, in. his Notitia Monaflica, fays they were A. on a pale Sa. cotized, A. 3 rofes, (). The former arc in Wolveron houfe, and are thofe commonly given to king Alfred.
The leal engraved for the Antiquarian Society by G. Vertue, from a deed in the Augmentation-Office, has, on one fide, the figures of the Trinity, or Deity, and the Virgin fitting with the Dove over them, a religious praying below. Infcription : SIErlLLUCO SEE GQARie ET: SCI: EDfARDI: REDIS ET ClQTERTIRIS: SEjDGFTONIG. Reverfe, the front of a church, (probably the antient abbey church), with a human figure in the door-way, on each fide of whom is S. EDWAllDUS, and a fliiugled fpire on the centre tower. Infcription : SALI3I6 ST6LL7E Q7ATUS TU NOBIS AUXILIARY ErGCRCQA PUGELAPJS RGuIA DONG PARIS.
A Lift of the Aebesses of Shaftfbury ; taken from
Ancient Charters, the Abbey Regifters, the Sa- ■ rum Regifters of Inftitution, and Mr. Willis’s
liiftory of Abbeys.
889, or 888, Angelina, Ethelgiva, or XEthclgeof, daughter of king Alfred.
948, iElfthrith, mentioned in king Edrcd’s char¬ ter.
966, Herleva witneffes ihe ecclefiaftical eenfure aguinfl the invaders of the abbey of Croyland’s rights ’.
tioi, Alfrida, or, as Brompton, 1089.
Eularia occurs 1089, 2 Will. Rufi, t. H. I. and Stephen k.
Euftachia, tempore incerto.
Cecilia, third daughter of Robert Fitz-Kamon, made abbefs by king H. I. a. r. 1107. She occurs 1135, [f. 1125] as the Leger Book of the monaftery.
Emma occurs j i 2 5, as the Leger Book, or, as Mr. Willis, 1130 — 1135.
Cecilia occurs 1135. Quere, whether fhe Was not the fame as the former Cecilia ?
Mary I. occurs about 1 1 90, 1 R. I. and 1 John l.
Amicia occurs 8 Ii. Ill m.
The abby was vacant 30 H. III. 1246.
Mary II. occurs about 1247.
Agnes de Ferrers fucceeded. She occurs 30 H. III. 1246"; 35 H. III. 1251 °. 34 FI. 111. 1250, fhe had a fummons to attend in the ex¬ pedition againft Lewellin prince of Wales. She alfo occurs 1267, 51 H. III. ?
Juliana de Bauceyn, or Baufin, or Bauchin, fuc¬ ceeded. She occurs 4 E. I. 1276 ; and 8 E. I. 1280 m. In 1277, fhe was fummoned to at¬ tend in an expedition againft; Lewellin prince of Wales 1.
Laurentia fucceeded, and occurs 8 E. I. 1280 n. 13 E. I. 1285, is fiiid to be the fixth year of her promotion r. She occurs 18 E. I. 1290 \
Firld granted by John earl of Morton, afterwards king, as the Shafion Regilter, fol. 26.
p. 273 ; and Collier’s Reel. Hill. vol. II a. Madox, Hill. INcheq. p. 406. Madox, Hill, Excheq. § 8, p. 470.
Ed. Gale. k Shalton Regifter. f. 32. 95. 4 Ibid. f. 33.
b Willis’s Not, Pari. vol. II. p. 164. c Dodfw, Mag. Rot. d Pafch. Coimtn. 31 El. III. Rot. 6,
c Ibid. p. 441. Wiltlhire. ( Mag. Rot. 8 Memor. 6 H. III. Rot. 2.
h Madox, Baron. Angl. p. 226. * Ingulphus, Hilt, of Croyland, p. 47,
1 Ibid. fol. 26. m Ibid. f. 102. n Ibid. f. ro6. 0 Ibid. f. 100. p Ibid. r Ibid. f. 93. * Prynn’s Collect, t. Ill, p. 432.
Mabel
Mabel Gifford, as the Shafton regiffer. Others call her Matilda. 22 E. I. 1294, is faid to be the third year of her promotion. She occurs 1297, 25 E. I. 1 In 1302, the bifhop of Sarum orders Richard de Slykeborn, a minorite, and Richard le Brun, to be her confeffors u. The fame year her brother, Godfrey Gifford, bifhop of Worcefter, left her a legacy at his death.
Alice de Lavynton, priorefs, made her profeffion of canonical obedience to the bifhop, and was confirmed by him on Monday after the feaft of All Saints. In 1302, the bifhop iffues his letter to the archdeacon of Dorfet, to induft and in- llall her, and to make proclamation before her ele&ion, 17 kal. Nov. 1302 u. She occurs 6 E. II. and 7 E. II. 1314, in the/ Shafton Re- gilter x. The temporalities of the abby were in the king’s hands, 0<ft. 1, 1315
Margery, or Margaret Auchier, defied Nov. 28, 1314 z. She was prefented to the bifhop by Ilobert de Hull, prefbyter, procurator of the nuns at Shafton, 9 kal. Jan.; was confirmed, and received the benedidtion, 6 id. Feb. 1315 as She occurs 1318 b. The temporalities of the abby were in the king’s hands, 16 cal. Feb. 1327 c.
Dionyfia la Blound, or Blount, was confirmed, and received the benediction, id. July, 1329 c. She occurs 14 E. III. 1340 d.
Joan occurs 1350 e.
Margaret de Leucenore fucceeded. July 12, 1350, habuit licentiam accipisndi munus benedidtionis , extra ccclefiam Sarum. In a roll of court-leet, at Michaelmas, 27 E. III. 1253, n fa*d to be the third year of her promotion. She occurs 29 E. III. 1355, 33 E. III. 1359 ft
Joan Formage was confirmed, and received the be¬ nediction, ulr. July, 1362. Her will was dated 4 May, 1393, in the 3 2d year of her promo¬ tion ; but annulled 25 Oct. 1395, as being pre¬ judicial to the abby s. In the Kalend. Muni¬ ment. fhe is faid to have an obit 40 years in the cathedral of Sarum. Breton the facrifl, 1437, charges 2 s. for wade of' wax [ pro roaJta- tione ceres ] at her exequies.
A commiflion to eledt an abbefs, in the room of J. Formage, was iffued 24 Oct. 1394b ; but the abby was vacant 1395
Egelina occurs 1397 k. She is faid in the Kalend. Muniment, to have had a confirmation from the apoftolic fee. In April, 1398, the abby was vacant ft
Cecilia Fovent occurs 7 June, 1398 m alfo 22 II. II. 1399; 3 H. IV. 1402 n, or, a.s Mr. Willis, 1415- Breton the facrifl charges 40 s. expended at her obit. fi
Margaret Stourton was confirmed, and received the benedidtion, 9 Dec. 1423 °. . She died 30 Odt, 1441 p.
Edith Bonham, priorefs, eledted 15 Nov.-, eon-' firmed 5 Dec. 1441 p. She is faid in tlie- Ka¬ lend. Muniment, to have had a difpenfation from the pope, fuper defedlum natalium. She died 1460. She had a chantry and obit in the abby church. Breton the facrifl charges 12 d. pro vafaiione ceres, at her exequies.
Margaret St. John, third daughter of fir Oliver St^ John, ofTregoze, fecond fon of fir Oliver St’. John, of Bletfo, by the heirefs of Beauchamp. Eledted 9 March, 1460; confirmed ro April, 1461 s. She is faid in the Kalend. Muniment, to have had a difpenfation from the pope, fuper defedlum estatis. In a court roll, 20 E. li. i;8o,- it is faid to be the 2 iff year of her promotion.
Alice Gibbes fucceeded. She occurs 1492, and died 18 Dec. 1496 r. By a court roil, Mich. 12 H. VII. 1496, it is faid to be the 5th year of her promotion.
Margery Twyneo, or Twyniho, eledted 1 1 Feb. was confirmed, and received the benedidtion, 14 Feb. 1496 s. She died 1304
Elizabeth Shelford, eledted 2 t June, 1504 s; oc¬ curs, as Mr. Willis, 1524.
Elizabeth Souch, or Zouch, eledted about 1 c 2 8 ; for by a roll of court-leet, at Mich. 25 H. VIII. it was the fifth year of her promotion. She furrendered the convent, and was living 1553.
The abbefs had in her gift four prebends or rec¬ tories; viz. Ewern -Mi niter, Fontmel, Gillingham, and Ludington, c. Wilts ; the rectors of which were her confeffors *.
The vifitor of this abby Was the bifhop of Salif- bury, who, after the abbefs’s election, on her pro- feflion of canonical obedience to him, confirmed and gave her the benedidtion, and iffued a mandate to the archdeacon of Dorfet, to indudt and in flail her. He appointed her confeffors, and exercifed other adts ol epifcopal jurifdidtion in this abby, either by him- felf or his Commiffary. Robert Bagenhull, cuftos of the fpirituality, and official of the fee of Sarum,- during the vacancy, vifited this convent ". The title of a deed in the Kalend. Muniment. SuppHcafio ccn~ ventits tempore mdcationis , & poft lapfwn femefirevi , diredla epifeopo, tit ipfe provideret, jure ftbi dtvclulc, de abb at 5 fa ; fe.ems to imply, that the bifhop of Sa¬ rum appointed the abbefs, after a vacancy of fix months.
May 12, 1368, the bifhop of Sarum granted a difpenfation to the abbefs, to go out of the mc- nalfery to one of her manors, to take the air and divert herfelf'V In 1298, a letter from the bilhop was fent to Robejt, redlor of Donington, to enjoin lalutary penance to the delinquent nuns here. Dated at Chardffock, 3 cal. Dec. y In 1316, a commiffion was iffued to Robert Perton, archdeacon of Dorfet,
and William Braybrook, canon of St . .to
decide a difagreement between the abbefs and nuns of Shafton z.
In 1413, 1 H. V. the king by his prerogative re¬ commends a nun to the convent at his coronation ; viz. Idonea de Woodhull, and ordered her to be received a. In 1428, the king, iffues a mandate to the abbefs, to admit Joan Afhcomb1 a nun b. 1 R. II. Elizabeth Bryther, a novice among the niins; was recommended by ihe king’s prerogative to be his mynchiner here; 2*0 Mav, 1497, the bifhop of Sa¬ rum certifies, that the bilhop of that fee had an an¬ cient right, at his entrance on the bifhopric, to place a domicel/ti, oY poor woman, in this monaftery ; and to appoint one of the nuns to be her miftrefs or tutrix, to inftrudt h9r in religion. He appoints Elcnor
1 Shaft. R.eg. fol. 96, 97. u R.eg. Gaunt. x Fol. 34, 98. r Reg. Morthial, fol. i. z Rot. Pat. b Fol. 56. c Ibid. fol. 167. d Reg. Shafton. p. 106../ c Wyvil, tol. 230. f Shall. R.Cg. p. 103—106. fol. 25, 26. h Wyvil. 1 Waltham, fol. 95. k Medford, fol. 405. 1 Ibid. foL 49. Ib;d. fol. .to;
122. 0 Reg. Nevil, inter aeta, fol. 39. ' p Aifcot, foil . 19. V Beauchamp. . f Blithe. 4 Audelejf.
Monaft. p. 103, note e. u Shaft. Reg. 123. * Reg.' Wyvil, inter ada, yoI.TB 'fol. 230. y Ghi-mt;
ada. * Rymer, Feed. t. IX. p. ii. b Ibid. tt X. 438*
Vol. II, E
1 Reg. TVTortivak- s Reg. Waltham,
, n Shaft. Reg.
1 7Y.nr.£i', Noth,
2 Mordva!, 'inter
Eliot,
S B U R
Y.
i& SHAFT
Eliot, do mi celt a, and Agnes Aflie, one of the nuns, to be her miftrefs c.
On a vacancy of the abby, or when there was a probability of one, it was ufual for the king to grant the cuftody of the abby to the priorefs and nuns. 38 E. III. the king granted a charter of vacation to the priorefs and nuns, after the deceafeof J.Fonnage, of the cuftody of the abby ; and, by reafon- of tem- peftuous winds and peftilence, the revenues were fcarce fufficient to maintain them d. 3 H. IV. the king granted to Cecilia Fovent, and the nuns, the cuftody of the abby when vacant e.
In £3,26, the bilhop of Sarum certifies, that there was an exceftive multitude of nuns in this monaftery ; and 1328 he makes an ordinatio numeric the revenues not being fufficient to maintain fuch a multitude ; and declares 120 nuns capable of being maintained here, and that no more be admitted f. But this number was much reduced about 100 years after.
Agnes Wodehyll. Chriftian Colyn. Margaret Landaffi Ifabel Mufburv;
J
Margaret Brown. Elizabeth Bekyngham.- Alice Oke.
Joan Afhcomb. Conftantia Bradleigh. Joan Sampfon.
Chrift. Pokefwell. Alianor Bradeleye. Edith Remfton. Thomafia Kymer. Katharine Warlond.- Joan Walberton. Margaret Seyntjohn. Katharine Ayfhcomb. Elizabeth MompefTon.
Elizabeth Ilumfrey, alias Abraham.
Elizabeth Poynes. Margaret Seynt George. Patronilla Keines. Margaret Comb.
Philippa Bonham.
Chrift. Pytney.
Alice Pytney.
Alice Leverfey.
Elena Rownys.
Alice Gibbys.
Katharine Florey. Elizabeth Huchyn.
Agnes Prynce.
Ifota Grene.
Joan Benthasn.
Katharine Moleyns.
Total 51.
At the e left ion. of Edith Bonham, 144 t, were thefe nuns s :
At the ele&ion of Margery TwyneO, 1496, were thefe nuns 1 :
Joan Crouke, fub-prior. Joan Hanleigh.
Ifabel Uppehavyn. Anaftatia Stourton.
Alice Graunt.
Alice Chaundofs.
Joan Edyngdon.
Joan Auger Chrift. Swynefield. Julian Tycheborn.
Edith Boore.
Amifia Hardyng.
Agnes Poureftoke. Amifia Clowes.
Ilabel Claveryng.
Ann Wadefworth. Margery Spertegrave. Ifabel Leigh.
Anaftatia Bradleigh. Alice Afhcomb.
Alice Pound.
• Moniales exp >
Alice Savage. Elizabeth Betham. Elizabeth Pavye. Felicia Chichefter. Alianor Gouiz. Ann Calmer. Agnes Wodefprd. Alice Amberleigh. Ifabel Weftleigh. Ifabel Beynton. Joan Balfordyne. Joan Mourefleryth. Chriftian Cofyn. Agnes Woodhale. Mary Florey. Margaret Landaf. Margaret Brome. Ifabel Moufbury. Alice Oke.
Agnes Alberton.
iffe profejfa 41.
Thomafia Kymer, refs.
Agnes Wodeford.
Chrift. Pokefwell.
Joan Walberton.
Philippa Bonham.
Agnes Prynce.
Ifolda Grene.
Margery Twyneo.
Agnes Aflie.
Alice Furry.
Mary Payne.
Agnes Laurence.
Exprejp p
Margaret Kemerford. Eleanor Pulter.
Margaret Payne.
Alice Abbot.
Elizabeth Zouch. Katharine Hatte.
Tacite prt
- Jocofa Bulwarden. Elizabeth Shelford. Thomafina Hofy. Margaret Seyntjohn. Emma Rodeford. Elizabeth Bethyr. Elizabeth MompefTon.- Elizabeth Monmouth. Alianor Pevefey. Katharine Thornhylle. Joan Stokes.
Joan Bulftrod.
Joan Amys. Philippa Catesby. Margaret Coke. Joan Maunfhill. Elizabeth Goodwin.
Ccf!k 1 r .
Margaret Godewyne. Elizabeth Repyngham. Joan Afhcomb. Conftantia Bradleigh. Elena Pv.empfton.
Joan Sampfon.
Chriftian Pokefwel.
Tacit e p,
Alianor Bradleigh. Edith Rempfton. Thomafina Kemer. Katharine Warlond. Katharine Aifhekewe Margaret Seintjon. Elizabeth MompefTon. rfeflcz 14.
At the cleflion of thele nuns h :
Mary Flory, priorefs. Anaftatia Stourton.
Alice Grant, alias Har- dyng.
Margery Spartegrave. Anaftatia Bradcley.
Alice Afliton.
Alice Savage.
1460, were
# ... . . ,
Ifabel Beauchamp.
Ifabel Pavys.
Agnes Wodeford.
Alice Amberley.
Agnes Shelford.
Ifabel Beynton.
Joan Bulwardine.
Joan Morfley.
Margaret St. John,
At the ele&ion of Elizabeth Shelford, thefe nuns k :
Thomafina Kymer, prio¬ refs.
Joan Warburton. Philippa Bonham.
Agnes Prince.
Agnes Ayfshe.
Alice Pyry.
Mary Payn.
Agnes Laurence.
Jocia Bulwarden. Elizabeth Shelford. Thomafina HufTey. Margaret Seyntjohn. Emma Rotherford.
Ann Denton.
1504, were
Elizabeth Bruyther. Elizabeth MompefTon. Elizabeth Monmouth. Alice Pewfy.
Katharine Thornel.
Joan Stokes.
Margaret Hymerford. Alianor Pulter.
Joan Bulftrod.
Margaret Payne.
Alice Abbot.
Elizabeth Zouch. Katharine Hall.
Joan Amyes.
ExpreJJe P'cofejfce 28.
c Reg. Blithe, fol. 40. d Shafton, p. 116. e Ibid. 122. f Mortlval, vol, II. fob 230, 231, s Aiicott, fob 10. fc Beauchamp, vol. I. fol. 34. 1 Blithe, fol. 95. * Audelev, fbl. ij6, 127.
Philippa
SHAFTSBURY
‘9
Philippa. Margaret Coke. Elizabeth Godwv Urfula Payne. Alice Jakes. Eleanor Eliot. Agnes Ball.
Joan Faringclon. Alice Brent.
Alice Charapeney Grace Balga.
Sybill Alford. Margaret Skyllyng. n. Bridget Fauntlero'y.
Alice Walker.
Mary Mervyn.
Joan Kelly. Katharine Gyles. Alice Baker. Elizabeth Cary, s. Anne Croft.
Joan Blandford.
T a cite profejfis 22.
It is probable, that in religious houfes, as many of the lower order of the TacitZ Profejfss were often called upon to join in conventual a&s as were want¬ ing of the Exprejfe Profejja towards making up a chapter. If this be fo, it will lead us to the know¬ ledge of the number of nuns required to make a chapter for deeding a lady abbefs in this convent.
1 ft, It appears that forty-one was not a fufficient number at the election of Edith Bonham. 2d, That fifty-five was a fufficient number, in cafe that lady was chofen unanimoully, as perhaps lhe might be, confidering what fort of a difpenfation lhe ftood in need of. Hence it follows, '3diy, That Margaret St. John wanted four votes, and Elizabeth Shelford five of the whole number, qthly, That Margaret Twy- niho carried her eledion by thirty-fix againft nine¬ teen, or at lead it is evident, that thirty-fix made the majority of a chapter.
In 1553 Breton the facrift’s accounts, the num¬ ber of nuns ftood thus :
1.
A priorefs,
A fub-priorefs, A third priorefs,
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
8
o
o
6
3
3
o
7
9
Forty-eight nuns, 2 d. each.
Five feculars, i-fd. each, - Three facrifts, 3 d. each,
In all fifty-nine.
Thefe fums are faid to be paid on the feaft of Holy Trinity, nomine auce , by the abbefs.
At the diflolution, thefe yearly penfions were af- figned to the late abbefs and convent by John Tre- gonwel, William Petre, and John Smith, efqrs. the king’s commiffioners, 22 March, 30 H. VIII, ; every one of them to have one quarter of a year’s penfion at Lady-day next, and at Michaelmas following half a year’s penfion, and fo from half year to half year during their lives h
* Johanna Langford, J
Editha Kemer, J
Bridget Fauntlcroy,
Katharine Galifa, or Giles, Alice Baker,
* Johanna Benbury;
Jane Percival,
* Margaret Me\v, or Mayo.
* Anne Audeley,
Alice Peacock,
* Elizabeth Corre, omitted in
fome lifts,
* Mary Creffer,
Julian Burdednye,
* Johanna Towle, J
* Anne Philpot,
* Marg. Butfet, or Butteflied, ,
* Elizabeth Afheley, j
* Chriftian Wefton,
'* Editha Magdalen,
* Elizabeth Horfy,
* Margaret Nuton,
* Alice Gerard,
* Urfula Johnfon,
* Elizabeth Larder.
* Alice Rogers,
* Dorothy Claufey,
* Anne Bodenham,
* Elizabeth Denham,
* Thomafyn Huffy,
* Alice Bond,
* Elizabeth Wortheton, or
Wroiighton,
Margaret Keylewaye, Margaret Ayfshe,
* Jane Weft,
* Katharine Hayward,
* Margaret Lovel,
Elizabeth Babington,
* Margaret Frye,
Alice Byffe,
Sum of the penfions, 431 1
Number of nuns, 54.
Thomas Cromwell,
John Tregonwell,
William Petre,
John Smyth,’
o
d.
g eacib
o 106 8 each.-
100 o each
j. 4 13 4 each U
eacM
o 66 8 each.
Commiffioners.
*■ Elizabeth Zouch, abbefs, Katharine Hall, priorefs, Eliz; Monmouth, fubpriorefs, Elizabeth Bryther,
* Margaret Hymerford,
* Johanna Amys,
Eliza Jakes, lick and lame, Philippa Cattefby,
Margaret Cooke,
* Elizabeth Godwyn,
* Urfula Payne,
* Amys Ball,
* Joan Farendon, fick and lame.
A vice Brent,
< Alice Champeney,
Johanna Kelley,
Alice Payne, lick and lame.
1.
1 33
20
7
s.
6
o
7
d.
8
o
o
U-
N. B. Thofe marked * were living, and theif penfions fubfifting, 1553 m.
The Abbey, or Conventual Church.
There now remain not the lead reftiges of if, but it feems to hate ftood parallel with Holy Trinity 6 13 4 each, church-yard, Which anciently belonged to it, at the
eaft end of the abbey, on Park-Hill, towards the eaft end of it, a§ appears by bones and coffins found there. It wa$ dedicated to the B. V. Mary , to whom afterward St. Edward was joined on his tranflatioa hither. It was the glory and ornament of the town, the mother church, and almoft the only place of fe- 6 o o each, pnlture, there being but one ancient inferiptron in
any of the prefent churches, which is in St; Peter’s, and feems to have been removed hence. It was a mod magnificent building, if we may judge from the traditions the townlinen retain of its largenefs and
! Book of Penllons, in Augment. Off. K Willis’s Hift, ot Abbeys, v. II, p. 7o;
heightlq
shaftsbur y.
heighth, and from the fpirej Whence Camden, See. derive the name of the town. By its great heighth, and advantageous fituation on the top of the hill, it mull; have had a very fine effect, and been fe-cn over a great part of the counties of Dorfet and Scmerfet. It teems to have been ruined immediately upon the difl’olution, as Leland plainly hints, though he gives us not the lealt account of it n. It is greatly to be lamented that it was not left handing, and made par¬ ochial, beinp- fo great an ornament to the town and county ; and if we confider how fond people of all ranks were, in times of Popery, of being interred in monad eries, and the advantages arifing to them from obits, maffes, and dirges, there is no room to doubt but that this was the place of fepulture of many perfons of quality, who formerly lived in the parts adjacent: and had their monuments exihed, it might have thrown more light on the hihory of their families than we now have. And, which is hill more to be regretted, there is hardly any account of their very names preferved.
Only the following perfons occur, difperfed in va¬ rious records. King Edward the Martyr; Elfgiva, wife of Edmund, king of the W. Saxons, a great benefa&refs here. Here were obits for fir Thomas Skalis, who was deacon of the high altar, and died in 1532. Cecilia Fovent, abbefs; Joan Formage, abbefs; Edith Bonham, abbefs; Margaret St. John, abbefs; and fiber Egidia de Ehower. In 1524, George Twyniho, efq. by will ordered his body to be buried in this church, near the fepulchre of his uncle Chrihopher Twyniho, and forgave lir Giles Strangeways 30 1. he owed him.
On Park Hill was formerly found an oval feal, on which was a pelican vulned, feeding her young, and round it, SIGILLVM OFFICIALITATIS DOR¬ SET.
In 1746, South of the feite of the abby, on fink¬ ing a faw-pit in a garden, between the E. end of Park-Hill, and the paffage that leads to the Abby- Green, about four feet deep, was found with fome human bones, a gold ring weighing ^ of an ounce, val. 6 1. without any infeription or figure. In 1761, was dug up on this hill, a hone about two feet fquare, on which were the arms of the abbey, a crofs or patonce, between 4 martlets, very fairly cut.
In this church, according to Breton’s account was a fhrine of St. Elene : alfo the following
Chantries.
Platels, or St. Nicholas chantry, founded 16 E. III. 1342, by the king’s licence, at the altar of St. Nicholas, in the conventual church, by Thomas, ion of Thomas Piatel, of Shafton, who endowed it with fix marks per ann. rent, iffuing out of his tene¬ ments, called Platcles-Forum, in Shaflcn, for a re- iident chaplain, to celebrate daily for ever, for the good ellate of the faid Thomas and Alice his wife, and for their fouls after their deceafe ; and for the fouls of Thomas and Agnes, father and mother of Chrihian, formerly his wife, and their aqceftors, heirs, and benefahors, Dionyfia 'abbefs of Shahon, and her fucceffors to be patrons ; and in cafe they did not prelent in two months, then tjie Biffiop of Sarura hiould ; and if he did not preient in two months.
then the dean and chapter were to prefent: this foundation was confirmed in 1343 by the biihop of Sarum ; from whom the chantry priehs or canta- rihs had inhitution °. In the Sarum reeihers, 22 chantry priehs occur from 1342 to 1463.
The perpetual chantry at the altar of the Holy Crofs , in this monaherv. When, or by whom, it was founded is not known. The patron of it was the abbefs. In the Sarum llegifters there occur nine chantry-priehs from 1323 to 1365.
In 1364 Laurence Manduit, prieh of this chantry, with the confent, and at the fuep-ehion of the ah- befs and convent, was tranflated by the biihop, fub- duElci perpetuitate dicta Cant aria, to the church of the Holy Trinity, in. the church-yard of the fame mo¬ il aftery, contigue fituat a ; and he was induced perpe¬ tual chaplain, congrua pcnfione ajfgnata p. In 1533 a penfion of 61. was fubfifting to John Clements, in¬ cumbent of Trinity-chantry. This chantry, and the chaplain of it, in the Kalend. Muniment, is laid to be tranflated, cum farailiaribus monajicrii , to the church of the Holy Trinity.
The chantry De la Gore was founded about 13 R. II. and was endowed with an houfe and lands at le Gore, in St. James’s parilh, for two chantry priefts, one of whom was to officiate in the conven¬ tual church, the other in the chapel of St. Anne de la Gore. See more of this chantry in St. James’s parilh. The patron was the dean and chapter of Sarum. In the Sarum regillers of inftitution nine chantry priefts occur from 1347 to 1553.
The chantry of St. John Baptist. In the com¬ putus of John Wykes, bailiff and colleftor of the lady abbefs, 14 H. VII, a tenement in Eaft-Street is faid to belong to it ; perhaps the refidence of the chantry prieft, who, with the reft of them, rhuft have refided in the town, as they could not in the nunnery, though they officiated in the conventual church. In the chantry roll, 1 E. VI, the chantry of St. John Baptift in the monaftery, was valued at 10.6 s. 8 d. In it was a chalice of five ounces, William Wallop incumbent. 3 E. VI. this, together with the chantry of St. Catharine at the altar of St. Catharine in the monaftery, and the capital manfion of Margaret St. John’s chantry were granted to Silvefer Taverner a. In 1!>53 was fubfifting a penfion of 5I. to Walter Houfe, the incumbent of St. Catharine’s, and ano¬ ther of 4!. \ 6 s. to William Wallop, the incum¬ bent of St. John’s chantry.
The chantry of St. Catharine at the altar of St. Catharine. Of this we have no further account than what is related in the laft article, except that, 1541, William Stanley was chantry prieft, and that it is mentioned in the Kalend. Muniment. ; and in Breton the facrift’s account, the chaplain’s ftipend is faid to be 61. 13 s. 4 d. and cos. is charged for fupervifing lands and tenements belonging to it. In the chantry roll, 1 E. VI, it was valued at 6 1. 13 s.
4 d. It had no lands belonging to it, but a penfion paid by the king; William Stanley incumbent.
The chantry of St. Edward was in this mo¬ naftery, of which we have no further account.
n Lei. Itin. VII. f. Bo, p.m. Willis’s Not. Pari. v. II. p. 471, 473. 0 Reg. Wj vil. 113, 1 14. and Beruchamp, v. I. p. 9, 10.
? Wyvil, f. 505. q Rot. Pat. p. 7.
The
SHAFT
The chantry of abbefs Margaret St. John. In Breton the facrift’s account, the chaplain’s falary is faid to be 6 1. 13 s. 4 c!. In his computus, 1533, charges 56 s. ncl. expended that year on her obit ; and tor aims given for her foul every Friday, 21s.
8 d. for that year, at 5 d. each day ; and for 14 1. 17 s. 6 d. received out of divers tenements belong¬ ing to her chantry ; and charges 1 3 s. 4 d. for his own ftipend, for fupervifmg the lands, &c. belonging to the fame.
The chantry of St. Mary. A penfion of 6 1. to William Stanley incumbent of it, was fubfifting 1 553-
Befidcs thefe there are fome other chantries, that occur only in the Kalend. Muniment. It mentions a collation [_co!latio~] of the chantry of Sr. Leonard \ a confirmation of the chantry of St. Thomas , a chantry of abbefs Cecilia Fovent, a chantry of abbefs Edith Bonham , and an ordination of the chantry of abbefs Dionyfm Blount at the high altar ; of all which we have no other account.
In this monaflery was an office of the deacon o£ the great or high altar, who was prefented by the abbefs, and received inflicution from the biffiop of Sarum, in whofe regiflers thirteen deacons occur from 1318 to 1532.
The Abbey-House.
Little of it now remains, except part of an an¬ cient houfe, on the S. of Trinity-church, in which appear two or three very large arches walled up, but formerly paffages into other parts of the build¬ ings, fo that the feite is fcarce to be difeerned. But it is certain it flood on the S. fide of Trinity-church, towards the W. end of it, on Park-hill. It was de- molifhed, together with the church, foon after the diffolution •, which work feems to be far advanced, if not entirely compleated, at the time of Leland’s Pur¬ vey, who appears to have been here 1539. After the diffolution he only fays of it, “ The abbay ffode
“by . of the town,” which plainly implies
it was then demolifhed. 42 E. III. a patent was granted pro kernellanda [embattling] abbathiam.
This monaflery was diffolved March 23, 1539, 38 H. VIII, when Elizabeth Zouch, the laft abbefs, furrendered it with fifty-five nuns. In 1353 here was 29 1. 13 s. 4 d. remaining in annuities, and penfions to the abbefs and 38 nuns.
It feems very probable' that the feite of this mo¬ naflery, or part of it, was granted to fir Thomas Arundel ; for, 7 E. VI, it was regranted to Margaret his relift. The anonymous author of the account of fome places in this county, cited hereafter, at Miltori- Abbas, fays, that “ the abbey was given to fir TI10- “ mas Arundel, kt. whofe fon fir Matthew let the “ houfe to ruins, and budded at Wardour-caftle.” 1 E. VI. the feite and precinfts were granted to Thomas earl of Southampton ; 7 E. Vl. to William earl of Pembroke , who feems to have purchafed of lady Arundel. From hence it paffed with the manor to the earl of Shaftjbury.
The following deed, copied from an old writing late in the hands of Mr. John Knype, of Semley, c. Wilts, being thus endorfed, Burg* Sbajion, 1565, is curious and valuable, as it is the only account now remaining of this houfe, and contributes to give us fome notion of the flatelinefs and extent of the fa¬ bric, and the numerous offices belonging to it, all Vol. IL
S B U R Y.
which muff have occupied a traft of ground. Sevo Veral claufes in it plainly intimate t hat fome part had been demolifhed. No mention is made of the abbefs’s lodgings, and the nuns apartments. li is greatly to be lamented that the time when, and the perfons between whom, this partition was made, do not occur. The endorfed date, 1565, feems to. have been made when this deed was copied, for the parti¬ tion muff have been made long before.
(c The feite and precinfts of the late monaflery of f( Shaffon, with all maner of houfes, edifices, “ buyldings, and alfo the fympree and the “ ground, called Park-Gardens, and all other “ comodities thereunto belonging, in all by efli- “ macon tenne acres, equally divided by
The firff Part.
“ Imprimis, the brode hall, .the buttery, and the u pantrey in the northe ende of the fame hall, with. “ the feller, thalmefy which .is belonging to the “ fame and under the faid hall. To this parte the “ brode chamber, with the wyne feller unto the “ fame, the chappel, the longe leden chamber, “ the great chamber next to the frayt’; called the “ frayt’ chamber, with the oryall going betweene “ thofe chambers. To this pte alfo the chamber “ next to the flayers, without thall dore, at the “ ftayor hedd. Two other chambers at the faid “ flayer foote, called the fquiors chambers, and one “ other chamber next to them, fometyme called the u kitchyn clerk’s chamber, and kechyn, with all the “ houfes of office, belonging of old tyme to the “ faid kitchyn, and within the fame. Itm, the liable, “ called the Long Stable, with the hay-houfe be- “ longing to the fame. Ifm, the great backhoufe, “ with the paftry-houfe thereunto belonging, and “ the bred-houfe, with the hearth-houfe belonging “ to the fame, Itm, the chamber, named the maitef- “ mens chamber, lying in the bafe court, and the “ moyety of the grynter-houfe, both layd to this “ parte. Itm, the ground of the fympree and of “ the church, and the eafte ende of the parke, to “ this faid parte is alfo allotted, with the thridd parte “ of the dovehoufe, and the comodities of the fame. “ Itm, the moytie of the grene alley, in the fouth “ fyde of the place, with the thridd parte of the “ two great bafe corts, and the thridd parte of the “ moytie of the water of the welff with free egrefie “ and regreffe to and from the fame, bering a thridd “ part of the chardg’s thereof. Itm, the thridd “ parte of the laundry-houfe, with the comodities “ thereof, bering the thridd part of the mayritennit “ and reparations of the fame. All other comodities “ uncertayn, and riot known, as of faiors, markettS, “ leetes, lawdays, and other courts and perquifitesi “ of the fame, a$ wayffs, ftrayes, felons goods,1 ex- “ cheats, forfaytures, with their apptenances, the “ thridd pte thereof to this faid firff pte is alfo al- “ lotted and affigned.
i( The feeond pte.
“ Imprimis, the ffarre-chamber, the wardrobe- “ chamber, the mynchen-chamber, and the grerie' “ chamber, with the clofett of the fame. The vice; “ othervvife called the flayers, going to the wood- “ houfe under the chamber, with a parlour, called
“ the . parlour, one houfe of office next
“ to the faid grene chamber, one faior lodging cham- “ ber, in the weft fide of the farse. One other'
F “ chamber*
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cc chamber, with a brode dore, going in out of the “ court, in the weft fide of the faid chamber, called i£ the utter nurcery. Two other* chambers adjoyn- “ ing to the fame, in the Weft ende of the fame rewe, “ with one other chamber, under the garcfeyft cham- “ ber, with all the woodhoufes belonging, and under “ the fame. The kitchyn fometyme called the co- “ vent kitchyn, with the houfes of office, thereunto “ adjoyneaunt.
“ ltm, the feconde great ftable, being on the weft “ fyde of the gieat ftable, with the hay lofte over “ the fame, ltm, the myllhoufe, with the ftable “ there, and the lofte over the fame. One pece of “ the malthoufe that now ftandeth, at the W. ende “ of the faid myllhoufe, with tholde laundry cham- “ ber, next to the well, ltm, the bakers late chain - “ ber, with the lofte over the fame, to make a “ paftery houfe withall, for this feconde parte. ltm, “ thother moytie of the grynter houfe abovefaid, “ layd alfo to this feconde parte. ltm, the fecond “ parte of the faid parke, bounded fix feet on.the “ N. Ii. fide of the dore, goingeout into theftreetof St. “ James’s parifh, affending from thence, to a poft “ againft the place, and in the W. fide, lying againft “ the thridd parte of the laid parke, againft the- “ great oake, in the S. W. fide of the fame parte, “ and fo affendeth to the S. W. corner of. the dove-
houfe. ltm, the efte parte of the gardeyn, beying “ between thefter parte, and quoygne of the faid “ dovehoufe, and affendeth northward, to the N. “ walls 4 foote, in thefte fide of the dore, coming “ out of the bafe court of the thridd parte of the “ faid gardeyn, with thother moytie of the grene “ alley above expreffed, in the S. fide of the place. “ ltm, the thridd par.te of the three great bafe “ courts, and the thridd parte of the comoditie of “ the water of the well, ltm, the thridd parte of “ the faid dovehoufe, with the comodities of the “ fame, with free ingreffe, egreffe, and regreffe, “ beiing the thridd parte of the chardgy’s thereof, “ with the thridd parte of the laundry houfe, and “ comodities of the fame, bering alfo the thridd “ parte of the reparations of the fame, all other co- “ modities being uncertayn, as of faiors &c. as be- “ fore.
“ The third pte.
Imprimis, the lodging late called the fextry, “ with the woodhoufe, and litle court belonging to “ the fame. The chambers called Carrents cham- “ bers, with two other chambers under the fame. “ The cheker, and the chamber next unto it, called “ the cheker chamber, with thentry into the fame, “ where the court hath been allweys kept for the “ king, with entry and reentry into the fame, al- “ ways relerved to the king and his aflignes. The “ chamber called the Rewards chamber, with the “ ftudy and lofte over the fame, with one other “ chamber next thereunto, and over the Yatehoufe. “ And alfo one other chamber next unto the fame, “ in the W. fide thereof. The larder houfe, with all “ houfes of office within the great yate of the faid ** larder houfe, and ways for thentry of the fame. tc ltm, to this thridd parte there allotted 3 litle *c (tables, whereof one of theym lyeth next to the “ fa:d checker, and thother 2 ftables between the “ yatehoufe and the long ftable. ltm, the chamber “called the fofters q chamber, and the lyme houfe
4 Forrefters,
“ under the fa the, to make a heyhoufe, or ftable, “ for the fame thridd parte. ltm, to this thridd “ parte, ther is allotted the olde brewhoufe, and the “ fyer houfe, with all the houfes betweene the faid “ brewhoufe, unto the pece of the malthoufe, that “ nowe ftandeth, which is layd to the feconde parte “ above reherfed. Ifm, the hoopers houfe layd unto “ the faid thridd parte, to make a ftable withall. “ ltm, the chamber called the fefofters r chamber, “ lying at the grynter houfe dore, with the wood- “ houfe under the fame, ltm, the wollchoufe under- c< neath the grynter houle, allotted alfo to this thridd “ parte. Ifm, the weft: parte of the gardeyrr, lying “ from the eft parte of the quoygne of the dove- “ houfe abovefaid, affending four foote in theft parte “ of the wall, comming in out of the laid bafe “ court, into the faid thridd parte of the fame gar- “ deyn, bounde from the foutheft quoygne of the “ faid dovehoufe, and delcendeth do’wne apmnft the “great oke in St. James’s parifh. ltm, the thridd “ parte of the faid dovehoufe, with the comodities “ of the fame, and the thridd parte of the faid 2 “ bafe courts, and the thridd parte of the comoditie “ of the water of the well, with free ing-reffe, egreffe, “ and regreffe, with the thridd parte of the laundry “•houfe, and comodities of the fame, beiing the “ thridd parte of the chardg’s thereof, all other cch “ modities being uncerteyn, as of faiors, &c. as “ before.”
Several records relating to this abbey may be feeri in Dr. Tanner’s Notir. p. 103. among which he men¬ tions a chartulary of this abbey in the poffelfion of John Low of Shafton, efq. But this MS. on the ftri&eft enquiry is not now to be found.
Chapels in the Town.
The free chapel of Sr. Michael flood in Berton* Street, now in Trinity parifh, perhaps anciently in that of St. Laurence. In a roll of court Jeet held Mich. 39 H. VI. 1460, one John Pole was prefented for a nuifance, in Berton- Street, oppofite to- Sr. Mi¬ chael’s chapel: and in another, 15 and 16 E. IV, the cujicdes bonorum of the church of St. Michael were t prefented for a breach of the aftize of beer. The Sarum regifters take no notice of this chapel, nor are there now the lead remains of itl
Here were alfo chapels - at Blintesfield, and Sr. Anne de la Gord, in St. James’s parifh, where fee concerning them. There was alfo one dedicated to Sr. Edward , in the fame parifh, of which we have no account, nor is it known where it flood.
Chantries in the Town.
The chantry of Sr. Edward. In the Calend. Muniment, is the title of a charter for two mef- fuages in Shafton, for the maintenance of one chap¬ lain, to celebrate mafs for the foul of K. Edward, in St. Edward’s chapel in St. James’s parifh. There alfo occurs another, entitled, Licentia ad celebrandum , in Capella Sti. Edwardi extra monajlerium conjirubia , which plainly dillinguifhes it from the parochial church of St. Edward, and a chapel dedicated to the fame faint in the monaftery. In this chantry feems to have been two priefts, one of which officiated in
: Fee forrefters.
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Sr. Edward’s chapel, in the monaftery, the other in that in the town. There was alfo a chantry of Sr. Ann de la Gore, in St. James’s parifh.
The Priory or Hofpital of St* John Baptist.
' We have no account either when or by whom it was founded. Dr. Tanner s mentions a patent, 5 R. II. concerning the priory or hofpital of St. John Baptift, fuper montem de Shafion. The patronage of it was in the abbefs. In the Sarum regifters, there occur 20Cuffodesor wardens, among which is George Twynyho, who was inftituted 1492, and refigned 1497* In 1450, it is (tiled a free chapel or hofpital. It flood near St. Martin’s church, and in that parifh, at the meeting of Hert, Crope, and Shetwell Lanes. In a roll of court leet, 11 and 12 E. IV. is men¬ tioned the crofs of St. John, in E. ftreet. In the chantry roll, 1 E. VI. this hofpital was valued at 4 1. per ann. and had one bell, val. 3 s. 3 d. John Ham, incumbent, who received the profits to his own ufe. It was defigned for five poor men, but the poor lived by the alms of the town. 2 E. VI. this hofpital or priory, with lands in Shafion, Mot- comb, and Gillingham, belonging to it, was granted for 136I. 11s. 4 d. to Kendal , Burgh , &c. John l lame, the lad incumbent, occurs 1543 ; and in *553 had a penfion of 3 1. 15 s. 4d. There was alfo a chantry houfe in the E. ftreet, belonging to the chantry of St. John, in the monaftery ; which muft not be confounded with the former.
Here was alfo in the town a chantry of St. Ka¬ tharine, which feems to have been a different one from that of the fame name in the monaftery, or was the chantry houfe belonging to it. In the Sarum regifters, we find William Stanlaw, pbr. on the re- fignation of William Breton, prefented by the king ; inft. 5 Nov. j 54 1 c. The lcite of it is not known.
Here was a fraternity of St. Clement , mentioned in a court roll, 39 H. VI. and 20 E. IV. and another of St. Gregory , mentioned 1 1 and 20 E. IV.
With all thefe religious edifices, this town made a very great figure in times of popery. They were not only an ornament, but a great advantage to it, by the concourfe of pilgrims and fuperftitious people, whofe miftaken piety drew them to thefe repgious places, efpecially the fhrine of St. Edward. To this the town owed all its reputation and flourifhing con¬ dition ; but at the dilfolution they all funk in one common ruin.
Church-Lands. In 1293, lands of the prior of Okeburn here were valued at 2 1. 6 s. 9^d. u 16 R. II. it was found not to the king’s detriment, to grant licence to Bernard Brocas , chcv. &c. to give four meffuages, and two acres of land, in Shafion, to the priory of Ederofe , or Jury-Church x. 5 Jac. I. a cottage near St. Peter’s church* belonging to the fame, was granted to Edward Philips. 12 Jac. I. a meffuage near the Swan Inn, a clofe near Boywel Lane, and another near Sherborn Caufeway, in all three acres, part of the faid priory, were granted to James Prowfle. By the computus of John Botiler, the king’s bailiff, 11, 12 E. IV. a tenement of the prior ot Maiden-Bradley, in Trinity parifh, is men¬ tioned. 9 Car. I. a rent of 8 s. ifluing out of three houfes in the parifh of . in the tenure of Ro-
s P. no. 1 Reg. Capon. u Tax. Temporalit. * Inq. Holland’s Additions. z Willis’s Notit. Pari. vol. II. p. 474. 1
2 3
bert Trent, &c. was granted to the warden and fcho- lars of Merton Coliege.
In Mufton-Street is a diffenting Meeting-House; of the Prcfbyterian denomination.
The Castle.
Though no mention is made of a caflle, yet there feems to have been one on Caflle- Green, a little W. of St. Mary’s, by fome called Bolthury -, where the inhabitants have a tradition the old town or city ftood L It is now a fair plain. On one fide it joins to the town on the E- ; but on the W. it terminates in a deep precipice. On the very brow of the hill, to the W. is a fmall mount, fur rounded on the part that joins to the tow, n by a (hallow trench, the area of which is about two acres. It might have been a Roman caftrum exploratorium, there being a very extenfive prolpect thence of the vale of Blackmore ; and the country adjacent.
Gentlemens Seats.
Tradition fays, that one Arundel, fteward to the earl of Pembroke, in the beginning of queen Eliza¬ beth’s reign* built a large houfe in the town for him- felf, out of the abbey materials z, as no doubt were feveral others in this .and other parts of the town. 1 his feems to have been the fame which Mr. Coker a fpeaks of, when he fays, “ The greateft ornament bf the town is a fair turretted houfe of the lord Arun¬ del of Wardour, which as it were (hroudeth ' under the high walls, the dwelling of Grove, a very wor¬ thy gentleman.” But it is molt probable it was built by fir Thomas Arundel, or his Ion fir Matthew, out of the ruins of the abbey. It (lands; in Bymport- Street, and lately belonged to John Freke , of London, gent, and has been a public houfe, known by the name of the Rofe and Crown. It is now almoft pulled down. In 1747, on the chimney piece, we:e thefe arms :
1. Arundel, with a crefcent of difference.
2. Quarterly, 1 and 4, G. 4 lozenges Erm. 2 and 3, G. 3 arches conjoined, A.
3 .l Chidiock.
4. Sa. a bend,- with a label of 3 points, O. for difference.
A little W. of the former is another large houfe, now ruined, which formerly belonged to William Grove , of this place, efq. to whom it came by Joan, daughter and heir of John Boden, efq. alfo of this town. This is the houfe before-mentioned by Mr. Coker. This Mr. Grove was fecond fon of William Grove, of Grays-lnn, and of Fern, c. Wilts, elq. In the Vifitation Book of Wiltfliirey there are given five defeents of this family, which came originally out of Buckinghamffiire. Near this is another, for¬ merly belonging to John Foyle , efq.
On Sr. Mary’s Green, a little W. of the former, was another, which feems to have belonged to the Lows of this place, from whom it came to the Pitts, of Stratfield-Say. It was pulled down 1743.
Near thefe is another, which belongs to the heir of Thomas Bennet , of Norton-Bavenr, c. Wilts, efq. In the Vifitation Book for that county, is a pedigree of five defeents of a family, called Piet, alias Bennet,
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of Pitt-Houfe, c. Wilts, who feem to have been the ancient owners of it.
Near the former is another, which belonged to the Bowles , of this place.
In a MS. in the Britiffi Mufeum \ mention is made of a houfe belonging to Mr. Piercy, in Shafton, about i<5oo, in which were 12 coats of arms, among which were, a fefs between 3 martlets, Rempftonj and 3 fifties hauriant, Chattock . This family were either related' to, or anceftors of, the Piercys of Man* flon. In the fame MS. p. 20, mention is made of the Crown, which had belonged to Mr. Pwyniho 5 in which were 28 coats of arms, and among them feve- ^ ral of the Twyniho’s, and their quarterings.
The prefent Town-Hlal, or New Guildhall, hands on five arches, in the corn-market. Here the quarter- feflions for the peace are held, Tuefday after the tranftation of Thomas Becket, July 7.
It was built by the corporation about 1578. The ancient Guildhall flood a little W. of Church-Lane and Goldhill-Crofs, adjoining to the park wall •, un¬ der which is flill the town prifon.
There were formerly many crofies difperfed up and down in this town 5 one on St. Mary’s Green, ano¬ ther on Goldhill, another in Trinity Church-yard. There flill remains alfo the Fifh Crofs, which flands a little beyond the town-hall, to the W. and is co¬ vered with lead. The Butter or Cheefe Crols, which feems to have been anciently called the Pultry Crofs, flood in the Butter Market, and was taken down 17275 but the infcription on it is preferved, and re¬ moved into a back court of the houfe, late belonging to Henry Saunders, gent.
This crofs was built by me,
Edmond Bower, 1562.
Shaftsburise, Edmundus Bower, cognomine prsetor, Hanc propriis flruxit fumptibus ipfe crucem.
Utilior populo, fimul ac ornatior effet Ut locus, egregii pignus amoris onus.
Below, the arms and crefl of Bower, and the
date, 1562,
The Free-School
flands in Brim port- Street, a little to the E. of St. Mary*s Crofs, but when or by whom it was founded is unknown^ Its endowment is only 40 s. per ann. paid by the corporation.
Aim s-Houses.
Magdalen's, Maudlen's , or Dolhoufe , is a poor-houfe in St. James’s parifh, on the W. fide of St. Mary’s Lane. It is a very ancient building, but when or by whom founded is unknown. Over the door, on an efcotcheon, is a pale charged with 3 . . . . impaling a chevron between 3 . heads erafed, and an il¬
legible infcription. 7 H. VI. at a court of the lady abbefs, held on Wednefday after Chriflmas, Henry Gaveler, chaplain and facritl of the conventual church, paid a fine, for entrance into a little clofe of paflure near Dolhous : and at a court- leet held 25 H. VI. the jury prefent the poor of Dolhous, for appropriat¬ ing to themfelves a purprefture near it. 28 Eliz. the ruinous houfe of Maudlins, in St. Mary’s parifh, parcel of Shallon abby, was granted to Edward Read ,
&c. and their heirs. It might be thought to come within the chantry abt 5 and the revenues being taken away, the houfe became a parifh houfe 5 and there is now no endowment.
In Salifpury-Street, on the right-hand of the way, is an Alms-House for 16 women 5 and over the door, on a brafs plate, this infcription :
Anno Dom. 1611.
Matthew Chubb, of Dorcheiler, gent.
Was the founder of this houfe : and Margaret his widow gave fome Maintenance unto it ;
Whereunto John Boden, of Shafton,
Efq. William Grove, eiq. and Jane his wife, daughter and heire Of the faid John Boden, have added xxvi 1. yearly for ever.
For whole piety herein the Poore of this place fhall Ever praife God.
A little below the former, on the other fide of the ftreet, is another Alms-House for ten men 5 and on a brafs plate over the door, on an efcotcheon, a crofs between four mullets 5 the creft, an eagle volant. Under it :
Donum Deiet Deo, Anno Domini 1660.
On a ftone below :
Spider’s Spittle, 1656.
9 and 10 Will. III. an ad pafied for ereding work-houfes and houfes of corredion here, for the better employment of the poor. But this does not feem to have taken effed.
The town, being feated on the top of an high hill, is entirely deftitute of fprings 5 except at the foot of the hills in St. James’s parifh, two wells, in the pofteffion of private perfons. At the foot of Caftle- Hill were formerly fame water-works to fupply the town. Their refervoir was on the top of the Butter Crofs. It has been for time immemorial fupplied by water brought on horfes backs, or on peoples heads, from three or four large wells, a quarter of a mile below the town, in the hamlet of Motcomb, and parifh of Gillingham 5 on which account there is this particular cuftom yearly obferved, by ancient agree¬ ment, between the lord of the manor of Gillingham, and the mayor and burgefies of Shafisbury. The mayor is obliged, the Monday before Holy Thurf- aay, to drefs up a prize-befom, or byzant , as they call it, fomewhat like a May garland in form, with gold and peacocks feathers 5 and carry it to Elmore- Green, half a mile below the town, in Motcomb, as an acknowledgment for his water 5 together with a raw calve’s head, and a pair of gloves, which the fleward receives. Twelve penny -loaves, and three dozen of beer, are by cuftom diftributed among the people. The ceremony being over, the byzant is reflored to the mayor, and brought back to the town by one of his officers with great folemnity. This byzant is generally lo richly adorned with plate and jewels, borrowed from the neighbouring gentry, that it has fometimes been worth notlefs than 1500 1. A great many people get their living by carrying water, for which they have three-halfpence or two-pence an horfe-load, according to the part of the town they carry it to 5 and a farthing or a halfpenny a pail, if
* N° 1427, p. 32,
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fetched upon the head. About 1701$, the water was railed by an horle-enginc at Winkham farm, in Sem- ley, near a mile N. E. from Shafton; by William Benfon, efq. afterwards furveyor of the king’s works ; and conveyed into a large refervoir, in the High- Street, or Barton-Street. But the yearly profits not anfwering the fund and repairs, in three or four years time it came to nothing. However, about 1714, the fame was renewed, and the town was fup- plied with water from it ; though in fummer it was feldom or never fit for nice ufes, as for coffee and tea. From thefe refervoirs the water was diftributed by leaden pipes into all quarters of the town. Both thefe refervoirs have been long ruined, and now great part ol the water is brought on hories backs from a fpring at Elmore-Green, in Motcomb. Of late years they have ten or twelve wells. The lateft was funk in 1739, ac E. end of Park-Hill; and is 126 feet deep, and yields plenty of good water. At fe- veral houfes they have dead wells, with proper (hoots for catching the rain. That at the George-Inn will hold 250 hogfheads.
Here was a caufeway called Sherborn-Caufeway , between Shafton and Sherborn, of which fee in Sher- born. In 1753, an aft paffed for repairing and widening the road from the top of White-Street Hill, in Donhead St. Andrew, through Shafton, Milborn- Port, and Sherborn, to the half-way houfe in Ne- ther-Compton, and thence to Axminfter: and from the Angel-Inn, in Shafton, to Gillingham and Sal¬ tern-Hill, in Penfelwood, c. Somerfet : and from the New-Inn, in Cann, to the top of Melbury and Tollard White Street. This was the firft turnpike road made in this county.
Martin, are and have been long included in the fame prefentation ; perhaps ever fince the Reforma¬ tion, when the two latter were negiefted and defa- crated. This church ftands at the W. end of High- Street, having the Guildhall on the N. and abutting on the W. on the edge of Goldhill. It con fills of a chancel, body, and two iflesof equal length with the body and chancel and a fquare embattled tower, ini which are fix bells. The whole is covered with lead, d he body is railed above the ifles, and fupported by four arches, over which are five windows on the S. and four on the N. It is ornamented on the outfide with pomegranates, roles, portcullifes, &c. and thefe arms: 1. 3 rofes in pale, imp. a chevron between 3 lions heads. 2. A chevron between g birds, imp. frette with a bordure. g. A chevron between 3 owls, Twyniko. 4. A chevron between 3 roles. 5. A fword between 2 keys in faltire.
In the chancel window are thefe arms : Az. a dol¬ phin haianr, A. imp. bendy of 10, Az. and O. en¬ circled with a garter and motto.
On the fteps to the altar is a blue (tone, nOw lying N. and S. and ferving for a ftep to the altar, but ic formerly lay E. and W. in the body, at the foot of the fteps. It feems to have been removed out of the- abby, for there is no other ancient infeription in any of the reft of the churches. On it is a brafs plate, ac the upper end of which were two. efco'tcheons of brafs, now torn oft', and only this infeription left :
&ub tlfo funuilat’ corpus ^feplft |aapnc, arnitgec’, fii’ tt ijeretf papne, arm’
tjuonti’ fenefchaUt Ijujus monaffmt, qui ctnit xiitj etc menf Decembne. 3nno ©’nt m.ccccc cujus a’tc p’pictci’ &lftOtmuiJ )$>#. 0mcrt.
The parifli of St. Peter, including the ancient parilhes of St. Laurence, St. Martin, and St. Andrew.
The ancient parifti of St. Peter muft have been very fmall, as indeed were all the reft in the borough. It feems to have confifted only of Cornhill, the Mar¬ ket-Place, Church-Lane, and Leighton, in St. James’s- Street. 1 1 E. IV. the free tenants of the abbefs in this parilh (A0. 13 of -abbefs Margaret St. John, William Carent, fenefchall) were charged 15s. 2d. by Stone, the abbefs’s bayliff, and colleftor for her fee in this vill ; rents of affize payable at Michaelmas only. By Breton the facrift’s computus, 24 H. VIII. the free tenants were charged 16 s. ; the tenants fe- cundum confuetudinem , or cuftomary tenants, 13 s. 4d. payable quarterly ; the tenants at will, 46 s. 8 d. ; rent of affize, and 4I. 10 s. increafe of rent, on account of new building the New-Inn and two te¬ nements lying on the W. fide of the Poultry-Crofs ; befides 70 s. old rent for the two tenements.
Leighton. In the Kalend. Muniment, it is faid to be a farm belonging to the abby. It lay near Sheetwell-Lane, as appears by a roll of court-leet, 39 H. VI. and 20 E. IV.
The Church of St. Peter
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is mother, principal, and prefentative church, and always has the precedence in prefentations, &c. The churches of the Holy-Trinity, St. Laurence, and St.
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In the firft window of thO N. ifie are thefe coats, &c.
1. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Arg. a fefs gules between two bars gemelles wavy, Az. 2 and 3, A. a chevron! G. between 3 water budgets, S a.
2. The Virgin Mary kneeling at a deftc, on which,
. #nctlla 2D’m fiat.
In the fecond window: 1. A triangular reprefen- tation of the Trinity ; the field Az. the legentl Arg. 2. The emblem of the Paffion; viz. Az. 4 hands vulned, in the four corners of the efcotcheon, A. in the center an heart pierced and vulned, O.
In the third window, two women; the robes of the laft lozengy or chequy, O. and Sa.
Lands were given for the maintenance of a mafs for four years in this church, by Ellen, late wife of John Matthews, if the king's laws fuffer , or elfe to remain to Richard Matthews for ever, val. 3 s. 4d. Robert Peters, incumbent. Here were obits for John Matthews, William Kettylton, John Brewer, William Coney, John Mercer, alias Polycarp, John Kilpeck, founded in this church ; clear yearly value, after fome fmall deductions to the poor, 30 s. c
The inhabitants of this parifh bury generally in the church-yard of the Holy Trinity, except fuch as are interred in this church. There is a vault under the S. ifle, now ufed as a cellar. There is ho ap¬ pearance that any church-yard ever belonged to it, and it is the received opinion there never was any.’ There is a crofs at the W. end of this church, on’ Goldhill.
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S H A F T S B U R Y,
The Register of this parifh begins 1623 ; but nothing material occurs, except
George, fon of fir John Crook, of Motcomb,
baptized, - * — 1624
Thomas Baker, of Shafton, and Mary, daugh¬ ter of Henry Seymer, late of Hanford,
married, - - - 1656
Richard Ryves, mayor, buried, - - 1634
The Rectory.
Before the diffolution, the abbefs was patron.- I E. VI. the advowfon of this church, and the three united ones, and alfo that of St. James, were granted to Thomas , earl of Southampton ; and 7 E. VI. to William , earl of Pembroke, whofe fucceffor Philip, about 1680, fold them to fir John Nicholas. The heirs of the late John Nicholas, efq* lately fold them to the right honourable Anthony , earl of Shaftsbury . Neither this nor the three otheE churches are men¬ tioned in the valor, 1291.
2. s. d.
Prefent value’, - * 2 - * n i-o 24.
Tenths, — — ‘ * 3 °t
Bifhop’s procurations, - o 1 1 1
Archdeacon’s procurations, - o 4 44
It is a difcharged living, and all the four churches are of the clear yearly value of 30 L
The return to the commiffion, 1650, was, that the parfonage was in the gift of the earl of Pem¬ broke, val. 20 1. per ann. They had been long with¬ out a preaching minifter, and during the vacancy the tythes were not paid. They defire that St. Rum- bald’s may be united to them, and the church de- molilhed, to enlarge theirs. Mr. Samuel Weale was minifter of St. Rumbald’s, but unfit to fupply both, if united..
Patrons#
The king, the abby be¬ ing vacant-
9 Reg. Gaunt, ? Wyril* ft* C?j>on,
Re CTORSv
John Schip, pbr. pr. to the chapels or redories of St. Peter and St. Andrew, united propter exilitatem ; inft. 6 id- Sept. 1305 d.
Nicholas de Berewyke, cl. inft. 3 id. Od. 1307 d.
John de Tydelford, cl. pr. to ditto, on the re- fignation of Berewyke, inft. June . . 1330 c.
Henry de Godaiming, cl. pr. to ditto, inft. 15 cal. Jan. 1333 e.
Thomas, or James Beau- ford, pbr. pr. to ditto, inft. 29 Mar. 1346 e ; exchanged with
Alan Avene), or Grenel, chaplain of the perpe¬ tual chantry of Mym«
* Medford, 6 Nevile,
Robert Pulvertoft, of] Ewern-Minfter,gent. j by grant hac vice of > the late abbefs of J Shafton. j
* Aifcott, * Beauchamp.
bury, dioc. Sarum, pr. to ditto, inft. 2 June, 1347 ; exch. with
William Braybrok, vicar of Braudwindfor, inft. 5 cal. June, 1 348 c.
Robert Chefe, pbr. pr. to ditto, on the death of Braybrok, inft. 19 cal. July, 1348 c.
William Hay cement de Hardale, pbr. inft. ro ditto, on the refig. of Chefe, ri Nov. 1349'.
N. B. After this time no mention” is made of St. Andrew.
John Macham, pbr. inft. ulc. Aug. 1361 c.
Thomas Manyngford, cl. inft. penult. Septemb. 1361.
John Gold, pbr. inft. 19 April, 1399
William Taylour, chap, inft. 26 Jan. 1428 s.
John Fitford, exchanged with
John More, redor of Tychefwell, dioc. Nor¬ wich, inft. 30 May, 1436 s, exch. with
William Corny fh, redor oflkenham, dioc. Lon¬ don, inft it. 22 Dec. 1441 h, exch. with
Hugh Heade, redor of Caulborn, in the Ifte of Wight, inft. 13 Mar. 1445 h, exch. with
Radulph Hetne, or De- tuner, redor of Mere- worth, dioc. Rochef- ter, inftitut. 16 Od,
1453 \
Robert Nichol.
Nich. Godfreigh, LL. F. on the death of N ichol, inft. 17 Jan. 1475 '.
Walter Barbour, cl. on the refig. of Godfreigh, inft. 4 Sept. 1476 *.
John Raynold, cl.
William Ketylton, A. M. on the refignation of Raynold, inft. 13 Mar. 1491 k.
John Wharton, A. M. on the death of KetyL ton, inft. 5 Feb. 15C9 !.
Roger Baker, refigned 154 im.
William Levett, pbr. on the death of Warton, inft. 26 July, 1541 "V
John Ditty, inft. 1558.
k Langton. 1 Audeley.
Thomas
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Thomas Berry, inft. 1567.
Thomas Laurence* inft.
*577-
Thomas Cooper, inftic* 1590.
The king. Anthony Prowfe, M. A.
inft. Aug. 29, 1639 p.
. Efmont occurs
1661.
Thomas Andrews, pr. 24 May, 1662 % or 28 March, 1663 • ob. 1685.
Nicholas Clark, M. A. pr. 1686 9.
John Philips, A. M. inft. 1703, refigned 1713. Edward Nicholas* efq. Henry Andrews, 1713.
Richard Blackmore, inft.
5 Oft. 17211
Thomas Read, M. A. inft. Sept. 18, 1725, ob. 1765;
The earl of Shaftsbury; • * ♦ • * Hammond, M. A.
pr. 1765, on the death of Read.
It may be ftriftly faid, that St. Martin’s is united to St. Peter’s, and St. Laurence’s to the Holy Trinity ; but how far the Holy Trinity and St. Peter’s are united, or when they were fo, cannot be aifcovered;
It is pretty certain that the ancient parifh of St. Mar¬ tin is now included in St. Peter’s, and St. Laurence’s parifh in that of the Holy Trinity. But though St. Peter’s and the Holy Trinity are united in the pre- fentation, they remain in fome meafure diftinft pa- rilhes, and have their refpeftive parochial officers * fuch as churchwardens, overfeers of the poor, pariffi- clerks, &c. In 1720, the inhabitants of thefe two pariffies agreed, that an aft fhould be procured to unite them, to prevent difputes and law-fuits about the fettlement of paupers ; but being oppofed, the defign was dropped, and never refumed.
The Parilh of St. Martin1,
This parifh contains Eaft, or Salisbury-Street, part of Hert or Angel-Lane, High-Street, Shetewel- Lane, Crope-Lane, and part of Mufton-Street. The free-tenants of this parilh were charged by the ab- befs’s bayliff 1 1. 6 s. 84 d. •, by the lacrift i8d. : the cuftomary tenants, by the bayliff, 2 1. 2 s. 104 d. •, and the tenants at will, by the facrift, 26 s. 10 d.
The Church is fituate at the S. corner of Hert or Angel-Lane, into which looks the E. window, whofe upper part ftill remains. In 1650 was fold, by direftion of the carl of Pembroke’s will, the moiety of a bam lying within the parilh of St. Peter’s, and late parilh of St. Martin’s, called St. Martin’s Church, together with the church-yard adjoining, containing, by eftimation, five perches of ground. In a roll of court-leet of the abbefs, 7 H. VI. men¬ tion is made of a cottage in a cemetery in the N. part of High-Street, which muft have been in this parilh, and feems to have been the fame before- mentioned, taking the word adjoining in a large fenfe.
* Rymer’i Feed. torn. XX, 393. Firft-Fruits. 1
The Rectory is not mentioned in the valor 1291. The ancient and modern patrons were and are the fame as thofe of St. Peter’s. The parfonage houfe flood in Hert-Lane; for in a roll of court-leet, 3 H. VII. the reftor of St. Martin’s was prefented, for rubble, &c. falling from his tenement there.
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Rectors. |
Nicholas de Welwe, ex¬ changed with Thomas Oucheby, reftor of Chefilborn, inft. 16 cal. May, 1334 r.
The abbefs Dionyfia; William Cloup, pbr. inft.
6 id. April, 1339 r. Thomas de Shaldefton, cl. on the death of Cloup, inft. 10 Dec. 1348 r.
Henry de Forchard, or Forward, pbr. on the death of Shaldefton, inft. Aug. . . ; 1 361 r.
The abbefs Egelina* J°hn D^e, chap, on the
death of Forward, inft.* 12 April, 1396 % ex- • changed with
John Tuffe, reftor of the moiety of Tollard, inft; 17 July, 1400 s. Reginald Kyngbrig, cl. on the death of Tuffe, inft. 23 Dec; 1402 \ Richard Tydling, cl. ex¬ changed with Robert Whittok, vicar of Idmefton, inft. 22 May, 1428 c, exch; with
James Grene, or Greny* reftor of the mediety of Child-Ockford, inft. 22 May, 1433 c.
John Punch, cl. on the refignation of Greny, inft. 25 June, 1442 ", exchanged with Thomas Symfon, reftor of Allhallows on the wall, London, inft. 27 Aug; 1443 ", exchi with
Philip Ap-Howel, cl. on the refig. of Symfon, inft. 1 1 Dec. 1444 William Hore, cl. on the refig. of Ap-Howel, inft. 9 March, 1449 Thomas Marchah
Reg, Wyvil* * Medford, * Nevile, u Aifcott.
William
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S B U R Y.
William Budde, chap, on the death of Marchal, inft. 19 Jan. 1456 x. Thomas Gribbel, cl. on the death of Budde, inft. 6 Aug. 1478 \ Robert Monk, chap, on ' the refig. of Gribbel,
inft. 26 Sept. 1490 y. William Ketylton, cL William Thomas, cl. pr. on the refignatlon of Ketylton, inft. 16 Sept.
rv w 1494 z*
Thomas Waltham, cl. Richard Heyron, pbr. pr. on the death of Wal¬ tham, inft. 19 April, I5G5 a*
James Shaw, pbr. pr. on the death of Heyron, nft. 24 Nov. 1526 b.
The Parifti of St. A N D R E W.
This redory, in the Sarum regifters, is faid to be united to St. Peter’s before 1305, and is mentioned together with St. Peter’s till about 1349, when it probably went to ruin. The fcite of the church and the boundaries of the parifti are now utterly unknown.
The Parifti of the HOLY TRINITY.
Street and Park-Hill, and confifts of a chancel, body, and two iftes equal with the chancel and bcdy, and all tiled, fupported by four arches on each fide ; and in the body, above the iftes, are three windows on each fide. The tower is embattled and pinnacled, and contains four bells. This church, as t he c'owuf- men report, was enlarged by one Arundel, fteward to the earl of Pembroke, about the beginning of Q. Elizabeth’s reign ; but it was moft probably done by fir Thomas Arundel. Adjoining is a Ipa- cious church-yard beautifully planted with rows of lime-trees, and bordering on the fouth on the remains of the wall of the abbey. It was formerly the bu¬ rial-place of the whole town : for though we find mention made of cemeteries in the parifti of St. Mar¬ tin and St. John, it is much to be doubted whether they were made ufe of before the Reformation.
In the body, near the font, this infcriprion :
Johannes
Filius Johannis & Marias Nicholls Generof.
Bene vivens, morienS Pie, Odob. 25, iEtatis fuas 29.
Gulielmus Filius Johannis & Marias Nicholls Generof.
Bene vivens, moriens Pie, Decern b. 24, iEtatis fuas 32.
Salutis anno 1675, hie in vitam beatiorem ad refurgendum pofiti.
Near the former :
Hie jacet Maria Nicholls , uxor pr^fati Johannis Nicholls, quse obiit 15 die Decembris 1694.
The ancient parifti feems to have been very fmall. We cannot find any ftreets belonging to it befides Bimport-ftreet, Barton- ftreet and manor, the upper parts of Hert and Laundry lanes ; but it now in¬ cludes the ancient parifhes of St. Laurence, and St. Mary, and the chapel of St. Michael.
Berton junta Cann, as it is (tiled in the Kalend. Muniment. The Firmarius & Prepofitus de la Breton are mentioned in the rolls of court-leet, 39 H. VI, and 1 1 E. IV. It lies at the E. end of High-ftreet, at the town’s end. 37 H. VIII. this manor, faid to be in the parifhes of St. Peter and St. Rumbald in Shafton •, lands, &c. called Keymer s Rent ; a wood, called Lone- coppice, containing four acres; a water corn- mill, called French-mill , and the advowfon of the redory of St. Rumbald, all parcel of Shafton- abbey, were granted, inter alia , to fir Thomas Arun¬ del , kt. for 1097 1. 19 s. 7 E. VI. one third ©f the manor was granted to Margaret Arundel for her life. After this the whole was granted to the earl of Pem¬ broke , whence it paffed as the manor of Shaftefbury did. 12 E. IV. Stone, the abbefs’s bailiff, charges the free tenants of this parifh with 2 s. 9^ d. rent of affize : but the facrift, 25 H. VIII, takes no notice of them. The bailiff, this laft year, charges the cufto- mary tenants with 10 s. quarterly, as does the fa¬ crift the tenants at will, 46 s. 8 d.
The Church,
dedicated to the Holy Trinity , is fituated in the north part of the town, on the fouth fide of Bymport-
■ * R.eg, Bechamp. J Langton, *
Underneath, on a fcroll :
•Immodicis a:tas brevis eft: et rara fenedus.
Near the feet of the laft :
February the 3d, 1683. Here Iyeth the body^ of Joan Benntt. Not loft but gone before.
Alfo,
The body of Elizabeth Durnford , her daughter, who died February the 9th 1 700.
Near the Former :
Here lyeth the body of Peter Bennet , gent, who departed this life, April the 12th, 1701.
H. S. E.
Petrus Bennet generofus qui coelibatu perfunc- tus nihilominus obiit vere pater familias 120 die April. Anno £etatis 63, falutis 1701.
Pauperibus panes, hinc & fibi manna paravit, Quam bene commutas, Petre, viaticulum ? Quarn bene mittis aquis panem, cum Chriftus, ut inde
Emergat Petrus, porrigit ipfe manum ?
N. B. He acquired a moderate fortune in the fer- vice of fir Harbottle Grimfton, mafter of the rolls, purchaftd Hply-Rood-Mead, and by his will left it charged for ever with the weekly payment of 12 penny loaves to as many poor perfons of St. James’s parifti.
te, a Audeley, b Campegio,
Towards
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A F T S B U R Y.
Towards the eaft end :
Here lyeth interred the body of George Hoivt , efq. only fon to fir George Grobham Howe, of Barwick St. Leonards, in the county of Wilts, bart. who atteyned the age of 13 yeares, and by his fweetnefs of nature, arid great ambition of all that was excellent, gave the greateft hopes imaginable *, but on a fud- den they were cut of by His deceafe, the 13th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1666.
Underneath are the arms of Howe , a fefs engrailed between three wolves heads erafed, Sa.
A little ffiorfc to the eaft.
Hie jacet corpus Roberti Toope generofi, qut obiit decimo odavo die Decembrisj Anno Domini 1671.
Alfo,
The body of Anne, the wife of Thomas Read , who departed this life February the 5th, 170-f^-,
In the North-ifle, in the firft E. window, on a pane of glafs :
Good men need not marble. Wee dare truft to glafs the memory of William Whitaker , efq. who died the 3d of Odober, 1 646.
Above are the arms of Whitaker , S. a fefs between three mafcles A*
At the E. end of the SoUth'-ifle, 6ri a mural mo¬ nument of freeftone :
Underneath lies the body of Abraham Gapper, gent, who died May 18, 1733, aged 43 years. Alfo his children, Thomas and Charles Sufanna and Elizabeth *
On the S. wall a mural monument of $hite marble :
Hie fitus eft Hum'fredus Bishop, arm. collegii Wadhami nuper alumnus, & medii Templi focius,
Filius
Johannis Bishop de Chilcombe in hoc Comitatu armigeri & Patientiae filise Johannis Bennet de hoc burgo armigeri.
Nepos
Humfredi Bishop armigeri et Ann.® Nobilifiimi Georgii comitis Norvici fororis. qui In cxercitu Caroli primi regis cohortem,' Propria cura contraxit, ac in Senatu Anglicano burgum de Bridpoft diu Repraefentavit.
Quicquid dulce animum compleverat, utile quicquid, Ars cerebrum, pietas pedus, et ora fales.
Obiit 8 die Junil, anno
f TErse Chriftianae 1709; ( tat is fuse 30.
Above are the arms of Bijhop , A. on three lozenges G. as many eagles difplayed of the firft. Creft, an eagle’s head A.
Below the former is a mural monument of free¬ ftone, in the middle of which is a brafs plate with this infeription :
Here lyeth John Bennet , efq. third fon to Tho¬ mas Bennet, of Pitt-houfe, in the county of Wilts, efq. who died on the 5th of February, 1676, a member of parliament for this bo¬ rough, and was fucceeded in that high ho- VOL. II.
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riourable truft by his eldeft fon and executor,
Thomas Benner, efq. as yet living. c * • . J *v *. ‘ •* “* .
On the top, between two urns, quarterly, 1 rind 4 jan imperial eagle difplayed G. 2 and 3 a chevron ermine between four Catharine wheels A. impaling S. a cheyron between three chaplets O. Creft, a Gornifh chough proper*
Below this, on the floor :
Here lyeth the body of Arundull Bennett, gent, fon of John Bennett, efq. who departed this life, May the 28, 1682.
At the foot of this, the following quaint epitaph :
Hi S. E.
(Exprimit ut celtis lugens)
Thomas Bennett, arm. generofa e familia de Pitthoufe oriundus, hdnd:E viduae Cath. Topp de Stockton mario jundus,’ Ruperti illmi Princ. e Palat. non ita pridem primicerius, h'ujus municipii de Shafton (nec id femel) burgenfis, qiialis foret, et hodie, et in pofterum, nifi quod dena- tus, et fuasjam cadaver pattas, (ah !) paftus aquilas. Infpice, viator, illacrymare, et difce (infecuturus brevi, fors propediem) revereri Deum, colere pietatem, deflere delida, ut fundus et td etiam, revivifeas tandem in participio nominis ejus benedidus.
Obiit Maii 6t0 1 688°.
Pofuerunt hoc marmor teftamento ejus confcript conjux pia, foror chara, utraque moetens A0 Dni
MDCLXXXIX.
Near the former :
Underneath is interred the body of Mrs. Jo¬ hanna Collier , third daughter of the rev*1 Ar- thtir Collier, formerly redor of Langford- Magna, Wilts, and Anne his wife, who died in the 54th year of her age, on the 16th of Feb. MDCCXXXVII.
At the entrance of this ifle ;
Here lyeth t the body of Honour, the daughter of Mr. Robert Frampton , who departed this life May the . . . 1686.
On a ftone near the S. E. end of the church-yard :
Plere lyes the body of Leonard and Dorothy Bowles . Alfo Jofeph Bowles, their grandfon* aged 34.
Mr. Jofeph Bowles, a native of this town, was a gentleman of parts and learning, fellow of Oriel col¬ lege in Oxford, and eleded head librarian of the Bod¬ leian Library, in the room of Dr. Hudfon. In the latter part of his time he became addided to drink, grew carelefs and negligent, loft his charader, ruined his health, and died here in an obfcure manner.
In the church-yard, on the S. fide is a neat hexagon crofs of one ftone, on a bafe and three fteps. Not far from it lies half a blue flab, on which has been a brafs figure of a knight armed, with an infeription. Vulgar tradition calls this a Saxon king.
The Register begins 1670, in which nothing re¬ markable occurs but thefe burials :
Laurence Lowe, efq. - — f68o
Thomas Andrews, redor, — 1^85
H Thomas
S H A F
T S B U R Y.
Thomas Bennet, efq. - — 1 68 s
John, fon of William Benner, efq. 1689
John Bennet, minifter of Todbere, 1690
Mrs. Frances Bennet, — — 1695
Thomas Lufh, — - 1693
John Bowles, efq. - — — — 1700
Humphry Bifhop, efq. - — 1709
Anne, wife of William Bowles, efq. 1717
William Bowles, efq. - 1717
Henry Andrews, reftor, — — * 1722
The Rectory
is not mentioned in the old valor. Mr. Breton, the facrift, charges the perpetual chaplain, as he calls him in one place, or the reftor, with the yearly rent of 2 s. per compofitionem inde fad am, which appears in ano¬ ther place to be for the rent of a chamber. The patrons were always the fame as thofe of St. Peter’s.
1. s. d.
Prefent value, — - - 4 1 ioj.
Tenths, - 082^
Archdeacon’s procurations, - - 000
Biflhop’s procurations, - 008
The return to the com million, 1650, was, that the patron was the earl of Pembroke. No glebe be¬ longed to it, only a parfonage houfe, and the church¬ yard. The accuftotned rates of the parifhioners, amounted to 20 marks per annum# Edward Wil¬ liams incumbent, but was difabled by age. The cure was vacant, and they defire an increafe of main¬ tenance for a minifter.
Patrons. Rectors.
Anfelm Counewyck, or Conewick, chaplain, prefented to this cha¬ pel, inft. iyFeb. I4i4c.
Thomas Wodeford, clerk, on the refig. of Cone¬ wick, inft. 6 Nov. 1432 d.
Thomas Peftrum.
Reginald Kyngbrugg, chaplain, on the death of Peftrum, inft. 20 Aug. 1438 e.
William Hoper.
Thomas Petkyn, clerk, on the death of Hoper, inft. 17 Feb. 1467 f.
Thomas Gardener, chap¬ lain on the death of Petkyn, inft. 9 March,
M7° f*
William Vefyng, or Vey- fan, chaplain, on the death of Gardener, inft. 19 Jan. 1471 f.
William Ayfcough, arch¬ deacon of Dorfet, on the refignation of Vey- fan, inft. 240ft, 1477 f.
William Jonis.
John Skypton, chaplain, on the refig. of Jonis, inft. 13 Oft. i486 R.
Thomas Watkinfon, pbr.
‘Reg. Halam. d Nevile. ' Aifcott. fBeachamp.
on the death of Skvp~ ton, inft. 8 Dec. 1 503 b. Richard Cafwell, bache¬ lor in decrees, on the- refignation of Watkin¬ fon, inft. 260ft. r5o-5h. Thomas Watkinfon, on the refig. of Cafwell, inft. 17 Oft. 1508 h. Thomas Burdeux, chap¬ lain, on the refignation of Watkinfon, inft. 28 June 1515 h.
Elizabeth Zouch, abbefs. Roger Baker, pbr. pre¬ fented on the death of Burdeux, inftituted 27 March, 1534 k Thomas Felard, inft. 15 5 6 r-
N. B. After the Reformation it was annexed to St. Peter’s.
The Pariftt of St. LAURENCE
feems to have been anciently compofed of Bell-lane, Blyke-ftreet, Crope, or Cop-ftreet lane, Mill-Jane, and part of Mufton-flreet, as they are now allowed to be included in the parifli of the Holy Trinity. The free c-hapel of St. Michael, before- mentioned in the parifli of the Floly Trinity, feems alfo to have been in this parifh.. ft he abbefs’s bailiff charges the free tenants of this parifh 8 d. the facrift 6 s. and the tenants at will 24 s. 8 d. The bailiff charges the cuflomary tenants nothing.
The Church is now converted into a barn. It was a fmall fabric, and fituated at the corner of St. Laurence, formerly Bell-ftreer, at the E. end of which is a fmall lane, anciently called Love-Lane , where, within the memory of man, was a kind of refervoir for rain-water, ufed for waftiing houfes, which is ftill known by the name of farfons Pool, and feems to have been called the Fordmere ; for in a deed,
8 H. VI, a houfe is defcribed as fituated oppofite a Fordmere , in the parifh of Sr. Laurence. In 1650 was fold, by direftion of the E. of Pembroke’s will, all that barn, being now in the parifh of the Holy Trinity, called St. Laurence’s church, together with a certain parcel of ground adjoining, on which the tower formerly flood.
The Rector y is not mentioned in the old valor In the Sarum regifters, 1381, it is not taxed, as not exceeding twelve marks, and was then valued at 9 1. The patrons were always the fame with thofe of Sr. Peter’s.
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Re ctors. |
William Eggeclive. Radulph de Tydylnef- kyde, or Tydolfshide, clerk, on the death of Eggeclive, inft. 6 cal. July, 1320 k.
t Langton. fa Audeley. 1 Campegio. k Mortival.
3 Johij
SHAFT
John de Orchardefle, clerk, on the death of Tydolfshide, inft. 12 cal. June, 132 1 l.
Richard de Letchflade de Hervynton-Magna, cl. on the death of Or¬ chardefle, inft* 28 Nov.
1 348 m.
Robert Plonte, pbr* inft* 12 May, 1349 m.
John Wodelonde, pbr. inft. 30 May, 1 394 n.
William Ocle, chaplain, on the death of Wode¬ londe, inlt. 16 Nov. J4196.
William Neyfshe, chap¬ lain, on the refignation of Ocle, inft. 17 July, 1432 p.
William Eflby, chaplain, on the death of Neyfshe, inft. 2 March, 1436 P-.
Richard Hegges, pbr. on the refignation of Eftby, inft. 5 Sept* 1438 <1.
Thomas Condover* chap¬ lain, on the refignation of Hegges, inft. 23 July, 14401.
Roger Phylypp, on the refignation of Condo- ver, inft* 19 Nov* 1441 i.
William Smercote, chap¬ lain, on the refignation of Phylyp, inft. 8 Nov. 1448 1.
Philip ap-PIowel, chap¬ lain, on the refignation of Smercote, inft. 28 Och. 1449
Thomas Plawardyn, chap¬ lain, on the depriva¬ tion of ap-Howel, inft. 30 March, 1455 r.
Walter Strotinger, chap¬ lain, on the refignation of Hawardyn, inft, ult, Nov. 1465 r.
John Bygges, or Bugges, LL.B. afterwards vi¬ car of Tyflebury, on the death of Strotinger, inft. 20 Jan. 1497 s.
Thomas Fofter, pbr. on the refign. of Bygges, inft. 8 March, 1502 t.
Richard Cafwel, bache¬ lor in decrees, on the death of Fofter, inft.
1 July, 1508
William Hempfton, chap¬ lain, on the refignation of Cafwel, inft. 13 Nov. 1509 c.
1 Reg Mortival. Wyvil. n Waltham. 0 Chandler.
4 Audelcy. v Rot. Clauf. m. 8. Dugd. Wanvicklh. v. II. 772
S B U R * Y. St
John Burdon, chaplain, on the death of Hemp¬ fton, inft. 17 Odt.
1 5 1 4 t*
N. 2. Afterthe Reformation, this parifh was united to that of St. Peter.
The Liberty of A L/C E S T E R.
7 H. IV. William le Boteler, of Wemin, c. Salop, gave to Alcefter priory an annuity of 100s. per an¬ num, ifluing out of lands and burgages in Shaftf- bury, for the performance of divine fervice, alms, and other pious works, for the health of his foul, and of the foul of king Henry IV. u By what goes before, this feems to be only a confirmation of fome former grant-, fince Dugdale makes W. le Boteler to have lived t. E. I. And in the TaxatioTemporalitat* 1293, the lands of the abbot of Alcefter, in Shafton, were rated at 5 1. 2 s. Alcefter abbey was founded by Ralph Botiler, of Overfly, c. Warwick, 1140, 5 Steph. but growing into decay, it was united, and madeacellto Everfhain, c. Worceft. 1466, 10E.IV.* 13 E* IV. in a computus of Robert Stedman and John Botiler, cuftodes, or camerarii, of the borough of Shafton, they acounted for 27 s. 6 d. levied of the tenants of the hundred of Alyncefter, and paid to the colledor of the fifteenth granted to the king by parliament. The facrift of the monaftery accounts, 24 H.. VIII, for 5s. i@4cd. paid to the king’s and lady abbefs’s bailiff, and the bailiff of the hundred of Alyneefterj and alfo paid to the Paid hundred for Littelwood, 74. d. 2 H. Vi II, Stephen Payne held, at his'death, leventy acres of pafture, and eight of meadow, in this hundred, of the abbot of Eveiham, by rent of 5 s. for all fcrvices
10 Jac. L this hundred, or liberty, with the ap¬ purtenances, fuit of court, amerciaments, &c. late belonging to the abbey of Evefham, were granted, inter aha, to William Whitmore2* Ic lately belonged to John Foile, . efq. whofe relid Frances, daughter of John Bifhop, efq. remarried William Harris , of Sa- rum, efq. to whofe heir it is now defeended. It feems to have palled to. Mr. Foile, from a branch of the Newburghs ; for, 1650, Mr, Roger Newburgh's old rents here, value, 3 1. per annum, were fe- queftered. There is a conftable belonging to this liberty, which contains the manors and farms of Anketil-place, Blintesfield, Glydeford, le Gore, and that of the dean of Sarum.
The Parifh of St. JAMES
ftands in a vale, fouth of the town, at the foot of Park-Hill and St. John’s, whence iffue many little fprings, that afford plenty of water to this part of the town. The original and ancient parifh included lutle more than the liberty of Alcefter and St* John’s parifh, Burgefs-Lane, and the lower and greater pare of Laundry-Lane. As it is at prefent conftituted, <