specified; and in this way we now learn, from the Inspeximus charter of Edward II, of various acquisitions made by the canons of Michelhani, beyond what was conferred on them at their first foundation.
Of these the following is a brief account : —
{{quote|Sir John de Haia (Hay), tenement of "la Knocke," with lands, woods, mea- dows, escheats, &c. (now Knock-Hatch, in Arlington, a farm belonging to the Earl of Burlington). ^^
Robert de Blachington, clerk, a tenement in Kelle, given him by William de Wrotham, and Joan de Kelle, his wife.
William de Bracklesham, Dean of Chichester (1280 to 1296), his land of " Spelterche," in Arlington, with land given him by Richard Caperun, and a meadow, the gift to him of Thos. Bodington.
Wm. de Montacute, the chapelry of " Joington,"^^ with lands and rents attached.
Hugh Baudefar, land in Brithelmston, bought by him of John de Bemers.
Wm., son of Geffrey de Ditton, his estate of Ditton, in West Hatti, (now belonging to the Earl of Burlington).
Ralph de Manekesie, twenty acres and a half of land, and half an acre of meadow, on the south side of the road leading from Pevensey to Lewes, and reaching as far as " Wilendon" Brook (brocum), with half an acre of meadow adjoining that which belonged to the lord of Willindon.
Thomas de Burton, and Joan, his wife, the tenement called " Isenhurst," in Maghfeld, including capital messuage, woods, mills, &c.
Sir Robt. de Manekesie, all his land of " Windebeche," near Horsted Keynes, in the forest of Heseldon, which he held by gift of Gilbert de Aquila ; allowing the canons to have during the whole year, as often as needful, fencing in the aforesaid forest, to inclose the said land, under the inspection
^^ The date of this gift is ascertained to be A.D. 1267, from the Rot. Hund. 3^ Edw. I (1275), where the prior is said to have held "la Knocke" eight years.
^ This name, which appears also as Jewington and Levynton, has undergone more mutations than fiEiIl to the lot of names in general. In writing formerly of WUmington Priory, I was at loss to iden- tify with any place in the neighbourhood " Qonington," where it had part of its early endowment (circiter 1150) ; see Suss, Arch. CoUecHons^ toI. IY, p. 40. In the progress of my inquiries I found named as its temporalities, a.d. 1324, four manors, three of which are perfectly well known, but about the fourth, " Nu- nyngton," as it would have been too bold a guess that this could represent the GK)nington of the charter, I was obliged to make the best conjecture I could, Ibid. p. 49. Lately, however, I have
seen the enumeration of the prior of Wil- mington's * Temporalia * in Pope Nicolas's Taxation, (a.d. 1291), where, with the three manors about which no doubt is entert<ained, the fowrth is given as " £y- nington Qrotulo originali, (?em»^a»)." Now J and & are so exactly equivalent in phonetic power, » and « so absolutely inca- pable of being distinguished in writings of that period, being each represented by the same two minims, and Gteninton there- fore has so strong an affinity to Jevingtou on the one hand, and to Gonington on the other, that I cannot doubt these are all, through clerical errors of transcription, but different disguises of the word now spelt, and always pronounced " Jeving- ton," where we know, from other sources, the prior had manorial rights. Gk>ning- ton having once lapsed into Kynington, would easfly go a step further, and become Nunyngton.
