attainable of the estates belonging to our priory occurs in the taxation of Pope Nicolas, a.d. 1291, when the temporali- ties of the prior were estimated as follows : —
Pbiob of Michelham.
£. 9. d.
At Michelham . .' 700
Chintinges 20
Marsh (marisk), with appertenances 17
Isenhirst 200
Land of " la Oorie" 2
Bgglesdon 200
Brichelmston 5
De Kyminton (in the original Boll, Gumiton), i. e, Jevington . 16 8
Holewyk 300
What Lucy Eussel receives for life from her tanyard • . .400 An annual payment from the canons of Bekham (Begham) 16 13 4
Sum total . . 80
From whence it appears that, anticipating the £4. a year they would receive from her tanyard after the death of Lucy Russel, the whole income of the house from temporal sources was at that time £80. The only specifications in the above schedule which can occasion perplexity are those of " Egglesdon" and " Terra de la Corie." The first must be intended to repre- sent what is written in the charters "Heseldon,*' which in the " Peramphssima Confirmatio" just mentioned is called " Esschedoun, " i. e. in modem orthography, Ashdown, the general name of the forest. In this confirmation mention is made of the prior's right of " pasture for his animals in the common near the forest of Esschedoun with the other men of Bradhurst," a description, it will be seen, exactly appUcable to Heseldon. Bradhurst is the present Broadhurst, in Horsted Keynes, the property of Lord Dacre, where are the remains of an Elizabethan mansion, with a fine sheet of water below the church, to the north of which " Hazledown" must have been a part of the adjacent forest. With respect to the " Terra de la Corie," I can only conjecture that as the Russels gave various things in Hartfield, including (as appears here) a tan- yard, this may have been land attached to it, "Corie" having a strong resemblance to "Corium" (a hide), whence "Currier/* the word itself I can nowhere find. It will be observed that the prior received annually a rent-charge of £16. 13^. 4d.
