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COVENTRY, &c. Henry d'Aubeny (de Albiniaco) , son of Henry D'Aubeny (de Albiniaco), of Wycheford , and Christiana his wife give and confirm to Geoffrey de Langele and Matilda his wife and their heirs, all their capital messuage of mill Coventry together with rents, &c., the mills of Hyssel, and lands, rents and services in Coventre, with husbote and heybote in the woods of Coventre, Stok, Keresle, and Alspathe, with the reversion of other lands in the same villages; for which the said Geoffrey gives 85 shillings worth of land in several places, and released the father of the grantor from prison at New Sarum by paying 140 marks for him to Robert de Totenhale . (c. 1244-50.) [Geoffrey de Langele was dead in 1274.] .

CHIPPENHAM. Copy in 15th cent. of decree of Robert de Brantesim [a mistake for Brantestone?], official of Robert, bp. elect of Sarum , concerning the appropriation of the church of Chippenham to the use of the prior and convent of Farleigh, Wilts, and augmenting the vicarage with the tithes of Tyderington, the vicar paying for them 40s. yearly to Farleigh. Dated at Sarum, 16 Kl. May, 1272.

LAVINGTON (Bishops). Fine made at New Sarum on the morrow of St. Michael, 9 Ed. I, by which William, son of Geoffrey le Clerk of Lavynton , acknowledges the right of Robert, bishop of Salisbury and his church, to a messuage, hide, and 19 1/2 acres of land and 12s. annual rents in Lavynton, for which the said bishop paid to the said William 25 marks of silver.