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Taunton had charge of many churches in the area, including
Taunton St. James and St. Mary Magdalene, St. Peter de Castello, Ash Priors and Withiel, Pitminster, Willand, Dulverton, Kingston Church, Lydeard St. Lawrence, Angersleigh, Bishop’s Hull, Nynehead, Combe Florey, West Monkton, Thurlbear,
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The priory seems to have experienced some turbulence in the mid-fourteenth century – bloodshed in the priory church in 1332; the rape of a woman by one of the canons in 1345; the dissention and immorality of another canon in 1353 (who was sent to
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The priory church was rebuilt in the late thirteenth century, but not completed by 1327, when Bishop
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Taunton, apparently no easy matter. One canon returned to Merton; it is presumed that the four others stayed in Taunton. The canons of Taunton were joined by two others, c.1180, from the newly-dissolved
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