Queen Camel Manors and Estates - Victoria County History

assigned to the abbey porter to provide the monks‟ clothing and bread for the poor and tosupport a chantry in Woolavington,. lxxvi In 1231 Jocelyn Day or de Oye gave the abbot 4virgates of land and 8 a. of meadow given him by Hubert de Burgh. lxxvii By 1317 the rectorycomprised tithes, houses, rents, over 191 a. of land, and common pasture divided between theabbey and the vicar worth over £33. lxxviii A lot of meadow, probably intermixed with themanorial demesne, had been exchanged by 1508. lxxixIn 1333 the abbey was allowed to farm out the rectory, a practice that probablycontinued beyond the Dissolution. lxxx In 1536 the rectory was farmed for £15 about half ofwhich supported two chantries in Woolavington lxxxi but in 1558 the bishop of Bath and Wellsclaimed the rent. lxxxii The 16th-century farmers were usually the tenants of Hazlegrove. lxxxiiiIn 1607 the Crown granted the rectory to Sir Roger Aston and others whoimmediately sold it to Humphrey Newman. In 1616 Humphrey sold it to his brotherRobert lxxxiv who in 1675, with his wife Dorothy and son Robert, conveyed it to Sir FrancisHolles Bt. and Sir Edward Hungerford, probably in trust. lxxxv In 1690 it was settled on themarriage of Francis Holles Newman and Eleanor Mompesson and descended with theirmanor of North Cadbury lxxxvi until 1788 when it was settled on Catherine, daughter of FrancisNewman (d. 1818), for her marriage to the Revd James Rogers. Despite a successful claim toownership by Catherine‟s cousin Francis Newman the younger, lxxxvii the 73-a rectory estatewith 53 a. of Newman family land remained in the Rogers family, passing to James‟s sonFrancis Newman Rogers (d. 1851), Francis‟s sons Francis (d. unm. 1859) and the RevdEdward (d. s.p. 1910), and Francis Newman Rogers, nephew of the last, before beingsold. lxxxviiiThe medieval rectory house was occupied by the vicar but only a barn was recordedin 1527. The present farmhouse was probably built by the farmer in the late 16th century withhouses for his tenants before 1616. lxxxix In 1842 the rectory consisted of a single farm and a