Notes on Bermondsey Abbey. 99 
In 1818, 11th & 12th Edward II., the convent agreed with 
Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, for tle purchase of 
two acres of land in Croydon of the yearly value of two shillings 
(I wonder where that land is situate), with the advowson of the 
rectory there; and in 14th Edward II., for the rectory itself and 
advowson of the vicarage, in exchange for a hide of land at With- 
flete, with the mills valued at ten marks per annum, and other 
appurtenances in Southwark, and a yearly rent of £28 13s. 11d., 
formerly given them (13th Henry I.) by Robert Marmion; but 
this sale was never concluded. 
In 1890, 14th Richard II., the priory, with consent of William 
Courtney, Archbishop of Canterbury, patron, John Godewyke, 
then rector, obtained a grant of the Rectory of Croydon in ex- 
change for the Manor of Woddens or Whaddon, in that parish, 
the said Monastery to be exempted from all tithes arising and 
becoming due to the said rectory in future. It was agreed by 
indenture annexed that, in presenting to the vicarage on every 
future vacancy, the archbishop should nominate two clerks, 
whereof the convent should present one for institution. Amongst 
those instituted were—Richard Bondon (7th Aug. 1402); John 
Scarburgh, alias Causton (20th Jan. 1408); Henry Carpenter 
(80th Oct. 1487) ; William Shaldo (8rd Dec. 1487). 
In 1807 they had also a certain portion of the tithes of Chey- 
ham, in Surrey, in lieu of which they received of the rectory a 
pension of two marks. 
In 1497, on 4th June, the Abbot and Convent of St. Saviour’s, 
Bermondsey, conceded (pro hac vice) to the archbishop the nomi- 
nation to the parochial church of Croydon, vacant by the death 
of Mag. William Shaldo, when Roland Phylippis was collated to 
the vicarage by Archbishop Morton. 
By an indenture, Monday, the first week in Lent, the 14th of 
King Henry II., it was agreed that the collation and patronage 
of the vicarage of Croydon should remain in the archbishop and 
his successors, and that upon a vacancy the archbishop and his 
successors should name two proper persons to the prior and 
convent, one of whom they should choose and present to the 
said vicarage. Probably because the annual value of the church 
was 100 marks, and the manor only 80 marks per annum. 
Thus matters continued until the dissolution of the Convent of 
Bermondsey, at which time the great tithes as parcel of the pos- 
sessions of the church were granted by the Crown, and the right 
of presentation reverted to the see of Canterbury, and is now a 
peculiar belonging to it. 
As regards other advowsons, the first the convent possessed 
was that of the church of St. Saviour’s at Bermondsey (it must 
be remembered that, so far, I always speak of the original 
St. Saviour’s, not St. Mary Overie’s, which now goes by the 
