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Catherine de Lacy, daughter of the foundress, gave land to the Priory to find 

 a Chaplain to say Mass daily for the souls of her ancestors, and if they failed to 

 perform this the Bishop of Hereford was to compel them to do it. 



William de Braos gave to the Priory ten houses (naming their occupants) 

 and land, in his village of Tetbury, in Gloucestershire. Catherine de Lacy gave 

 a grant of land in Corsham, with Vernhale Wood, held by Walter de Clifford in 

 service of her, who afterwards confirmed this grant, and further added to the 

 same. In 1260, INLargaret, widow of Walter de Clifford, left her heart to the 

 Priory of Aconbury, with fifteen marks sterling for the proper burial thereof. 

 Sybella de Ewyas gave tithes from Ethon to the Priory, and it was afterwards 

 enriched by many other donations, as will presently appear. 



Many documents and deeds relating to Aconbury Priory are still extant. 

 Many conventual leases and grants, with the ledger book of the house, are now 

 in the Augmentation Office. The Episcopal Registers give incidental notices 

 relating to it. The Bodleian Library at Oxford contains the charter of Walter 

 de Clifford, with some other papers. The Harleian MSS. contain many original 

 papers and transcriptions, the former probably requisitioned by Colonel Taylor, 

 the real founder of the collection, during his residence in Herefordshire. The 

 Close and Patent Rolls in the Record Office also contain many deeds relating to 

 Aconbury Priory ; amongst them is one of the 9th Edward I. (1280), in which the 

 Church of Bridge Solars (called Brugge Solars) is given to the Priory ; another, 

 dated the following year (1281), gives the Church of Wolferlow ; and in a third, 

 1st Edward III. (1327), the Church of Malmeshall Lacy is similarly given. There 

 are also scattered MSS. in the Hereford Free Library, the library at St. Michael's 

 Priory, at Whitfield, and possibly at other places in the county. 



Dugdale's Monasticon mentions only two of the Prioresses of the Foundation, 

 viz., Agnes King and Joan Ledebury ; but in the Episcopal Registers, and from 

 the MS. abstract of the Leases and Grants to the several religious houses in the 

 county of Hereford, dated 1763, now in the Free Library, several others are 

 mentioned. The dates of appointment, or of the deeds executed by the Prioresses, 

 with their names, are as follows : — 



1280.— Beatrice de Gamages.— fiSfir. Thorn. Gantilupe.) 

 1288 and 1326.— Catherine de Genevyle or Geynvill.— iJef/. Ric. Swin and 



Deed. 

 1346-48-53 and 58.— Matilda de G-randisoij.— (On five Deeds.) 

 1415-17-21-22-25-26-37 and 46.— Ann Barky.— ('On eight Deeds.) 

 1452-65.— Agnes King.— (On two Deeds.) 

 1474.— Joan Draper. — (On one Deed.) 

 1481.— Cecily Mason.— f On one Deed). 



1489-91 to 1534. — Isabella Gardiner. —f'CAar^ Antique I. 26 and on twelve 

 Deeds, j 



And the last Prioress was Joanna Scudamoee, who was allowed a pension 

 of £9 at the dissolution of the Priory. 



Very little is known of these several Mother Prioresses. Bishop Cantilupe 

 confirms Beatrice de Gamage, 16th January, 1280, in her appointment as Prioress. 



