By the Rev. J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 273 



the two to be, tlie right man in the right place. The new Prior 

 of Farley was to be, according to the rules of St. Benedict, ecclesi- 

 astically subordinate, first to the house of Lewes, and so upwards 

 to the house of Clugni ; subject, therefore, to the vexatious juris- 

 diction not only of a mother, but also of a grandmother. The Prior 

 of Lewes was to have the power of removing the Prior of Farley 

 (but not without just and reasonable cause), and also of punishing 

 any of the brethren whose correction might be desirable. This 

 house was to pay to Lewes one mark (13s. 6d.) per annum, hy way 

 of acknowledgement, in lieu of all claims ; and the Prior was to do 

 the further pleasant fealty of dining at St. Pancras, Lewes, every 

 founder's day. Such was the arrangement. Nevertheless, the 

 Bohuns never ceased to claim the patronage, and it always ap- 

 pears in the lists of their property to the last. The names of some 

 of the Priors of Farley are preserved, but are not associated with 

 any distinction, literary or otherwise. Some of them are French, 

 as Lawrence Archenbaud and John de Fescamp. Such names, 

 perhaps, indicate that the wishes of the Bohun family were some- 

 times attended to in the nomination ; whereas, on the other hand, 

 the Prior of Lewes occasionally secured the appointment to favour- 

 ites of his own, for among the accounts of Sir John Howard, 

 Duke of Norfolk, there is a casual memorandum that he had re- 

 ceived some trifling favour from " the Chamberlain of Lewes, that 

 shall be Prior of Farley."' 



The system under which religious houses in England came to be 

 in any way dependent on others in France commenced at the time 

 when certain provinces of France were held by the Kings of Eng- 

 land. Foreign monasteries were frequently endowed with lands 

 in this country, the revenues being duly forwarded abroad. " For 

 though," as Fuller says, " the foreigners affected to despise our 

 island, they nevertheless licked their lips at the good fare it af- 

 forded." English monasteries so situated were called Alien Priories. 

 In some cases, as at Lewes, only an annual acknowledgment was 

 paid to the French house ; in others, it received all or part of the 



' Accounts of Sir John Howard, by 15. Botlield, Esq. 



