Chapter XXII: NYOTT, olim Neotstoke,137 or Neotstow, or St. Guerir,

_in the deanry of_ West.

MONASTERY DESTROYED. Here was a monastery[138] or college[139] founded in honor of St. Neotus, brother[140] to K. Alfred, who was here buried, which continued till after the Conquest. The church here belonged to Montacute priory in Somersetshire.

_Vide_ in Joanne Glastoniensi, p. 111. historiolam fundationis hujus
monasterii.
Stevens’ Supplement, vol. i. p. 217.
[Domesd. tom. i. fol. 121. H. E.]