RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Ralph, occurs 1253 ' 

 Richard, occurs I 269 s 

 Walter, occurs 1 289 3 

 John, occurs 1303 ' 

 Eustache, occurs 1313 s 



Ralph, occurs 1334 13 

 Walter, appointed 1375 M 

 Robert Aldeby, occurs 1426" 

 Henry, occurs 1529 16 

 William Flatbury, occurs 1536 17 



HOUSES OF AUSTIN CANONS 



15. THE PRIORY OF ALNESBOURN 



At Alnesbourn or Albourn, near the river 

 between St. Clement's, Ipswich and Nacton, in 

 the ancient parish of Hallowtree, was one of the 

 smallest of the several small Austin priories of 

 Suffolk. This house, dedicated in honour of 

 the Blessed Virgin, was probably founded by 

 Albert de Neville ; at all events he endowed the 

 priory early in the thirteenth century, with the 

 manor that bore his name in the parish of Hethill, 

 and also with the advowson of Carlton St. Mary. 6 

 It is stated in a certificate of the year as to the 

 diminution of the profits of the churches of Alnes- 

 bourn and Carlton St. Mary that those two 

 rectories were appropriated to this priory in the 

 year 1247. 7 



The taxation roll of 1 29 1 gives a total annual 

 value of £~i is. l\d. to the temporalities of this 

 priory, all in the county of Suffolk ; the largest 

 item was for rents and lands in Hallowtree 

 valued at £2 lis. gd. a year; there were 

 also small rents from the Ipswich parishes of 

 St. Clement, St. Matthew, St. Nicholas, and 

 St. Margaret. 8 



Robert de Belstede and Robert de Thweyte 

 obtained licence in 1301 to alienate to the 

 priory the advowson of the church of Halghtree 

 or Hallowtree, with two acres of land in that 

 town, 9 and in 1334 licence was granted for 

 the appropriation of the church. 10 



Before 1324 the priory of Alnesbourn held 

 the church of St. Mary, Carlton, county Nor- 

 folk, appropriated to them. It was served by a 

 stipendiary chaplain, but was conveyed in 1324 

 by the priory to the master and brethren of St. 

 Giles' Hospital, Norwich. 11 



In 1 39 1 Robert Bretenham, prior of Alnesbourn, 

 held Neville's manor, Hethill, as half a fee, and paid 

 ^[5 for a relief as his predecessors had done, and 

 was taxed at ^3 55. $d. for his temporalities. 12 

 This manor was sold in 1424 by the priory to 



1 Chart. R. 37 Hen. Ill, m. 9. 



' Add. MS. 19082, fol. 49. * Ibid. fol. 42. 



4 Ibid. 8172, fol. 173. Mbid. 



6 Blomefield, Hist. ofNorf ii, 98, 107. 



; Norw. Epis. Reg. viii, fol. I 30. 



* Pope Nich. Tax (Rec. Com.), 124^, 125, 128, 

 129, 129^. 



s Pat. 30 Edw. I, m. 36. 

 "> Ibid. 9 Edw. Ill, pt'. i, m. 28. 

 " Blomefield, Hist. ofNorf. v, 98. 

 " Ibid, ii, 107. 



John duke of Norfolk, Walter bishop of Nor- 

 wich, and others, and by them conveyed to the 

 hospital of St. Giles, Norwich. 18 



Soon after this date, the exact year has not 

 been ascertained, the priory of Alnesbourn 

 ceased to have an independent existence, and 

 was united to the Austin house of Woodbridge. 19 



The Valor of 1535 gives the annual value of 

 this priory, under the heading of Woodbridge 

 Priory, as £j 13;. lid. 20 



Priors of Alnesbourn 



Robert, occurs 1286 21 



Walter de Cretynge, appointed 1311 s9 



John de Stoke, died 1345 13 



John de Fynyngham, appointed 1345 " 4 



Robert Snyt, appointed 1350 25 



John de Louder, appointed 1350 26 



Robert Bretenham, occurs 1 391 w 



Richard Susanne, appointed 1392 28 



John Tumour, occurs 1424 M 



16. THE PRIORY OF BLYTH- 

 BURGH 30 



The real founders of the priory of the Blessed 

 Virgin were the abbot and canons of the im- 



" Close, 8 Edw. Ill, m. 1 7 d. 



u Norw. Epis. Reg. vi, 43. 



14 Ibid, ix, 32. 



,6 L. and P. Hen. Fill, iv, pt. iii, 6047. 



" Add. MS. 19083, fol. 18. 



18 Blomefield. Hist. o/Norf. ii, 107. 



19 Dugdale, Mon. vi, 583, 601. 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 422. 



" Bodl. Chart. Suff. 187. 



" Norw. Epis. Reg. i, 45. 



"Ibid, iv, 51. "Ibid. 



" Ibid, iv, 123. lc Ibid, iv, 124. 



}? Blomefield, Hist. ofNorf. ii, 105. 



,f Norw. Epis. Reg. vi, 1 70. 



" Blomefield, Hist. o/Norf. ii, 107. 



50 A chartulary of Blythburgh priory, in private hands, 

 contains sixty-two folios ; the date of the writing is 

 r. 1 100. The greater part of the transcribed 

 deeds are undated, and of the twelfth and thir- 

 teenth centuries ; they relate to grants, chiefly of 

 trifling properties. 



The following are among the more important 

 documents : — 



Grant by Henry I to the canons of St. Osyth, of 

 the church of Blythburgh. (fols. 3, 7^). 



Charter of Henry II, between 1 164-70, confirming 



9 1 



