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 | | A fuller and a parchmenter at Bruton were mentioned in the late 12th century, a tailor was recorded in the earlier 13th, and by 1327 when a brewer, a taverner, 2 tailors, a weaver, 2 dyers, a mason, a helier, and a smith were working there, (fn. |
 | | The administration of Bruton manor seems to have been combined with that of the hundred under the canons if not earlier, and in the early 18th century the royalties of both together came from courts leet and view of frankpledge, goods and chattels, waifs and strays, and felons' and fugitives' goods, but not deodands. |
 | | 36) The initials of Richard Bere, abbot of Glastonbury 1493-1525, and William Gilbert, prior and abbot of Bruton 1495-1532, and the mitre and dolphin of Bishop Richard Fitzjames (1505-22) are on the battlements of the northern clerestory, and the south aisle was evidently being rebuilt in 1517. |
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