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jTh-e Priory at times was much’ obliged to Gurdön and his family.
As SinAdam began'to,advance :.in years he 'found his mind influ-
encéd.by'the prevailing opinion of the re'afohablenefs and efficacy
ofi'prayers’.for the’dead y and,' therefore, - iti conjundtion with1 hi's
■ vftfèfóoh/laHtia, -ufthètypar 1271,: grafted to thé prior and- convent
qHHHmnJI his'-right.and claimto’ 'ascertain'place; placed, called.
P.a-Pleyfto'W', in the village afórëfaid, “ in_libéram, piiram, etper-
“ ’petuam eUmofinam.’P. This PléyHowJ-,-heus-ludortih^ or play-place,
is;a level area near-the church of about'fortyffóur.yards by thirty-
fix; andistknown now-by the-name of thëPk/lorc.- ; ■ ‘
-ItKcbntinues '{till,: as. it was in old times, to be the feene o f
recreation.for the :youthsj and children :'p f the neighbourhood;
and impreffes an. ideXon-the mind,that this village', even in Saxo'n
times,'could not be the mot abjedt of places, whenthe inhabitants
thought proper to align fo fpacious a Ipot for the fports and amufe-
mcrits of it’s ;young people & .
tfc'In Saxon Plejej-top, or Plejftop ; viz. PlegeJUnu, orPlegstow.
s A t thisjunóture probably the vaftoak, mentioned p. 5, was planted by the prior, as an
ornament.to His new acquired market place. According to this fuppofition the oak was
aged 43 z years wlien blown down.
* ‘For more circumltahces refpeéting the Pkjltir, fee Letter II. to Ms. Pennant.