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nentiis suis, et de molendino ejusdem villæ quatuor solidos."

The chapel of Elsfield, however, seems, by a deed here copied from Dugdale's Monasticon,* to have been originally given to St. Frideswide's by Hugh de Ellesfield.

"Omnibus, &c. Hugo de Elesfeld, salutem. Sciatis me reddidisse, &c. Deo, et beatæ Mariæ, et sanctæ Frideswidæ, de Oxeneford, &c. capellam de Elsefeld, quæ ad ecclesiam beatæ Frideswidæ pertinet, &c. et ipsi canonici invenient mihi et capella de Elsefeld imperpetuum capellanum qui assidue ibi sit et capellæ deserviat. lidem etiam canonici concesserunt mihi et capella de Elsefeld imperpetuum, ut pauperum quæ in villa de Elsefeld moriuntur corpora in cimeterio capella de Elsefeld sepeliantur,et aliorum, qui ibi sepeliri voluerint de eadem parochia. Testibus," &c. In 1381, a dispute arose between the prior of St. Frideswide's and William de Magna Rollendright, vicar of Elsfield. The vicar entered a suit against the prior and convent, for keeping in their hands the whole right of the said church of Elsfield. Upon this the convent made an exemplification of an agreement made between their predecessors in the year 1295; by which the prior and canons, appropriators of the church, agreed to augment the portion of the vicar by the additional allowance of one quarter and a half of bread corn, and the like quantity of barley, at three seasons yearly.†

From Dr. Rawlinson's MS. Collections for an History of Oxfordshire, I have extracted the following memoranda, which throw some light on the history of property there.

"Ellesfield. This place gave a surname to an ancient family that sometime lived here; for, I find that one Gilbert de Ellesfield lived here in King Edward the First's time, who married Joan, the daughter of Sir William de Bereford, Kut. living at Brightwell, in this county; but it did not long continue in this name, for William, a grandchild of the aforesaid Gilbert, dying without male issue, it came to . . . . who married Anne, co-heiress of the said William; and Juliana, the other co-heiress, was married to one Thomas de Loundress (as appears by the descent ;) but I suppose that this lordship, by partition, came to Anne, who also dying without male issue, it came to John Hore, of

Ibid. I. 176.

✦ Parochial Antiquities, pp. 326, 514, 515.

Childerley, co. Cambridge, who married Joane, the daughter and heir of Anne. This John, and Gilbert, his son, resided altogether there. Not long after this, about the beginning of the reign of Henry VII. their male line failed, and this lordship with other lands came to the Pudseys, for Edith, niece and heir to the last Gilbert, (being the daughter of John Hore, his brother,) residing at Ellesfield, taking a particular fancy (being then a widow without issue) to Rowland Pudsey, a younger son of Henry Pudsey, of Barford and Bolton, in Yorkshire, then a student at the University of Oxford, and a gentleman finely accomplished, married him, by which means their posterity have ever since enjoyed it. The pedigree is thus:

"Gilbert de Ellesfield=Johanna, fil, Will, Bereford, militis

Gilbert de Ellesfield, 25 Ed. III.

Gulielm. de Ellesfield, obiit 21 Ric. II.

Anna, filia et cohæres,

Johanna John Hore, de Childerly, 8 Hen. IV,

Gilbert Hore, arm. 16 Hen. VI.

Thomas Hore, obiit 20 Hen, VI.

Gilbert Hore, obiit infra ætat. John Hore.

Tho. Fulthorpe,de=Editha,consang.et_Rowl. fil. Hen. Pudsey, de Barford et
Castro Bernardi, hæres Gilb. Hore, | Bolton, comit. Ebor. filii et hær. Joh.
19 Hen. VII. æt.40,an.7H.VIII. | Pudsey, militis.+
Gul. Pudsey."

Of this family was Hugh de Puteace or Pudsey, Bishop of Durham 1153, who for 3000 marks purchased of Richard I. the earldom of Northumberland for his life, but was, not long after, deprived of it, because he contributed only

"Magr Will. de Blaston subd. pr. p' d'n'm Gilb. de Elsefeld, milit. ad eccl. de Bolebuth vac. per resig. Will'i 4 kal. Junij, 1335." Reg. Burghersch, episc. Lincoln.

+ A pedigree of the Pudseys occurs in the Bodleian Library, MS. Dods#. VI. folio 17 b.

2000 pounds in silver towards the King's ransom at his return from the Holy War. See Gibson's Camden, II. 960,

1104.

Sir George Pudsey, Knt. recorder of Oxford, in 1685, was the last of the family who resided here. He sold the manor and estate, of about 12001. per annum, to Lord North, (father of Lord Guildford,) for 25,0001.*

In the valor of 1291, (usually called Pope Nicholas's,) the vicarage of Elsefield, is valued at viij marks ;t and in the Liber Regis at 61. 8s, 1d,

In 1240, Roger de Ellendon was presented to this vicar age, by the prior and convent of St. Frideswide.

The prior and convent presented another vicar in 1251. In 1381, William de Magna Rollendright occurs.

Nor among the later vicars should Mr. Francis Wise be forgotten, eminent as an Antiquary and a Saxonist. A short life of him may be seen in the Lives of Leland, Hearne, and Wood, vol. I, part II. p. 26. Some additional anecdotes may be found of him in Mr. Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer; and a singular account of Dr. Johnson's visit to him at Elsfield, in Mr. Boswell's Life of the Doctor, 2d 8vo. edit. vol. I. p. 236.

The present vicar is the Rev. Henry Kett, B.D. fellow of Trinity college, Oxford, and Bampton Lecturer, in 1792.‡ 1799, Oct.

H. E.

MS. Rawl. in Bibl. Bodl.

+ MS. Hatton in Bibl. Bodl. LXXXIX. folio 142.

[In the next Magazine, p. 944, we find the following remarks on this article. E.]

Ellesfield can have no connexion with Allectus; but it may have been the field, q. d. land or estate of Ella, some Saxon proprietor, as Godelming is properly Godelm's ing, Godelm's meadow or land. Alchester has Romanity in its name; but it is Ald chester, q. d. the old camp or city, and not that of Allectus; as Alwalton, near Chesterton, in Huntingdonshire; is Aldwalton, q. d. the old walled (or fortified) town, being near a Roman station. Fainted arches on Saxon capitals are not uncommon, and are perhaps marks of subséquent repair, for it is not easy to suppose the spreading semicircle could be hewn away to a point; but, if these pointed arches are adorned with dental ør zig-zag work, they are coeval with the pillars. The use of the piscina was not to carry off the host, which was a solid body, but the holy water that remained unused. We are much obliged to your correspondent H. E. for his account of Ellesfield. Allow me to add to it, that two neat views of Mr. Wise's garden make vignettes to his Catalogue of the Bodleian Coins,

XI. Memoranda of Kingswood, in Wiltshire.

KINGSWOOD, in the hundred of Chippenham, a populous place, principally inhabited by clothiers, and persons employed in that branch of manufacture, is seated in the Vale of Gloucester, a small distance from the town of Wotton Underedge, in Gloucestershire, by which county it is surrounded. Formerly particular places were sometimes separated from the counties in which they were naturally situated, and adjoined to others, for the purpose of forming integral parts of one barony; but how this principle applies to Kingswood, I know not. However, though in the county of Wilts, it is in the diocese of Gloucester, and Deanery of Dursley.

The site is flat, principally consisting of rich meadow lands; and between the main village and the hamlet of Nind, runs a rivulet, upon which are erected mills.

The old Roman military way, branching from the great Fosse, runs through this place to Aust Passage. (Collinson's Somersetshire, I. 160.) No information on the spot enabled me to identify it; but there is an old road at the side of the manor house, and almost adjoining to its out buildings, which from its appearance and direction was, perhaps, the road Mr. Collinson alludes to.

Leland (Collect. I. 32.) tells us that there was a monastery founded at Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester, by Reginald de St. Walery, which was transferred to Kingswood; in consequence of which, Roger de Berkeley, who had been the instrument of this translation, was considered as founder. Of this second foundation, there is the folJowing account in Mr. Smith's MS. History of Berkeley Hernesse, at Berkeley castle, tit. Caldecote.-" The Abbey of Kingswood, by Wotton Underedge; a monastery seated in the county of Wilts, of the foundation of that ancient Saxon Family of the Berkeleys, of Dursley, though compassed round about with the parts of Gloucestershire; and hath been taken as part of that manor of Kingswood,

* "Of Cistercians," says Mr. Smyth, from the Pat. Rolls of 22 Ed. I. m. 6. [printed in Meyner's Apost. Benedict. 62 seq.] and which he, wha wrote before the publication of Dugdale, says, "sheweth of what order each monastery in England was of."

anciently of old called Acholt, wherein the Abbey house was seated, though now severed by the grant of

in the year of his reign, made to [Sir John Thynne, Knt. had Letters patent for the site of this. Abbey, and other lands in Wilts, 2 Eliz. Jones's Index, vol. I. And see Tanner, under the article Kingswood.]

"And King Henrie the Third, in 11th of his reigne, he eonfirmed to the Abbot of Kingswood and his Convent, the manor of Acholt, which Roger de Berkeley, of Dursley, gave to that Monastery, and all other their lands as freely as King Henry the second, his grandfather, confirmed them to them; in which are also divers liberties recited. And to be free, ab omni seculari exactione et servicio*, as by Rot. Chart. 11 Hen. III. pars 1. mem. 12 appeares. For which charter of confirmacion, the Abbot gave to the Kinge 10 marks, as by Rot. Fm. 11 Hen. III. appeares, where of the premisses is also a particular expression."

3 Hen. V. Feb. 2, 1415. Thomas Lord Berkeley left by will, among other legacies, to the church of Kingswood, his best collar of the King's livery, his pair of quilt vest ments, wrought with white angels, &c. Id. Mr. Smith, in "Lives of the Berkeley Family, II. 349. MS."

"The last Abbot of the monastery, before the dissolu tion thereof, was William Bewdeleye; as a lease shews, made by him, 20th Dec. 28 Hen. VIII. and the monastery was dissolved by surrender." Id. Mr. Smith, Berkeley Hernesse, loc. sup. cit,

In 1610, the manor was, among other lands and revenues, assigned for the establishment of P. Henry, and then valued at 781. 9s. 6d, per annum. Ordinances of Royal Housholds, 314.-It now belongs to Mr. Wale, of Adderley.

"The impropriate rectory of Kingswood (if I may soe call it,) and the 71. per annum of antient custome, paid by the inhabitants there, or rather 61. 13s. 4d. were by the Letters patent of Queen Eliz. dated 21 Julii, ao 5to Eliz. granted (inter alia) to Humphry Shelton, and Edmund Hunt, and theire heires, from whom the same forwith came, accordinge to the truste in them reposed, to Thomas Hanbury, one of her auditors, and from him to Francis his son, who aliened the same to Roger Fulse." Smith, (Berkeley Hernesse, loc. sup. cit.) The inhabitants have still a pay

This they had long before claimed-Hearne's Lib. Nig. Scacc. I. 166,

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