246 THE ALIEN PRIORY OF ANDWELL. dimidiating the King's marks of England and France (for the King bore the arms and title of King of France), might have been the mark used at Calais, for the same purpose as the Leopard's head in England, to distinguish the plate made there. I have now brought to a close this account of the English Assay marks for plate used in London. As the paper has extended itself for beyond the reasonable limits of such a communication, I shall reserve the Provincial, Scotch, and Irish marks for consideration on a future occasion. My chief difficulty, however, has been in this case to condense, into the form of a paper, matter that might with greater fairness have been amplified into a volume. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ALIEN PRIOEY OF ANDWELL, OR ENEDEWELL, IN HAMPSHIRE, A CELL OF THE ABBEY OF TYRONE ; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE FAMILY OF DE PORT 01' BASING, ITS FOUNDERS. Not far from the town of Basingstoke, and old Basing, so famous for its sieges in the wars of Charles and the Parha- ment, is the ancient manor of Andwell, or Enedewell.^ It still' retains some traces of its antiquity,^ and the inquiring eye of the archceologist may observe indications of its original destination. It was in truth an ancient Priory, a depen- dency of the great Cistercian Abbey of Tyrone in France. " This house and St. Cross (Isle of Wight) " says Tanner, " are reckoned among the houses of the Benedictine Order,
- ' but should rather be Cistercian, if cells to Tyrone."^ This
seeming difficulty will vanish, if it be remembered that the ' The name seems equivalent to Ducks' eastern end has been demolished. The well, from A. Sax. £';!frf., Lat, ^l»rt.9. See original windows were mere loopholes Mr. Way'snote, Prompt. Parv., voce £'«f?c. splayed internally: but there is one of - The buildings seem to have enclosed larger dimensions on the south side, an a small quadrangle : on the western side insertion of later date, of the period of is a portion of an ancient wall, in which Adam de Orlton, Bishop of Hereford and is a doorway which opened probably into afterwards of Winchester, who, a.d. 1325, the refectory, now the kitchen of the granted an indulgence of forty days to all farmhouse. The chapel stood on the who should visit the church of Andwell. north side of the quadrangle. It was of This would seem to imply that some work small dimensions, and had an entrance was then in progress there, both on its south and north sides. The ^ Mon. Angl., vol. vi. p. 1047.
