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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CUMNER. CUMNER, situated in Berkshire, in the Hundred of Homer, and Deanery of Abingdon, is built on the brow of a hill, commanding a very extensive view over the counties of Oxford and Gloucester. The parish extends about five miles in length, four in breadth, and contains many little tributary hamlets, of three, four, or five houses each. The number of houses in the village of Cumner and its dependent hamlets, amounts to about a hundred, and the inhabitants of the wholeparish do not exceed five hundred and fifty. Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vol. iv. The Hundred of Hornier, or as it is written in old records, Hornemere, was granted to the Abbey of Abingdon, (which afterwards became one of the wealthiest monastic institutions in the kingdom, ) by Edward the Confessor. Previous to this magnificent proof of royal favour and piety, Ceadwalla, king of the West Saxons, gave twenty hides to the Abbey, some parcels of which lay in Cumner. In the year 968, King Edgar bestowed on this foundation thirty tenements, with lands belonging to them. From these, and many other grants from our ancient Its revenues in 1117 were valued at nearly two thousand pounds a year. kings, every part of the Hundred of Hornier was found, at the Reformation, to be in the possession of the Abbey of Abing- don: and Leland tells us, that from Eynsham to Dorchester, the whole country belonged to that monastery. Of this extensive district, Cunmer was honoured with signal marks of the favour and munificence of the members of this powerful body. The ruins of several stone crosses, which may still be seen in different parts of the parish, remain monuments of its monastic possessors, and of their predilection for this salubrious spot. Here the superiors of the soc...