Oxfordshire ; and Briswalderton, in Berkshire, with divers other lands together with the Churches of Radings and Colunton, in Devonshire ; also that of St. Olave's, afterwards the Priory of St. Nicholas, Exeter: Moreover, he confirmed to them all gifts of lands, bestowed by his subjects, to be held as free as those granted by himself. The Abbey of Brecknock, in Wales, was also afterwards made a cell to this house.
At the dissolution, the estates of this house were valued, the twenty-sixth of Henry VIII. according to Dugdale, at £.880 14s.7d. per annum : Speed, ,£.987 Os. lOd. ; when pensions were assigned to several of the Monks. The site was granted by that King to one Gilmer, who first pulled down many of the buildings, in order to dispose of the materials, and afterwards sold the land to Sir Anthony Brown, whose descendants began to convert it into a mansion-house ; but it long remained unfinished. It was afterwards, however, so completed, as to become habitable, Sir Thomas Webster long residing in it ; in which family it still - remains,
