RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Walter, 1263 ' 



Robert, 1268 2 



Richard de Yaxley, 1303 3 



Nicholas de Wittelsham, 1307 4 



Richard de Hoxne, 1309 5 



William de Geytone, 1311 s 



Alexander de Stratford, 1 332' 



Matthew de Pakenham, 1334 8 



Alexander de Drenkiston, 1353 9 



John Baxter, resigned 1374 10 



William de Haleworth, 1374 n 



William Randeworth, 1410 12 



William Poley, 1444 13 



Thomas Frankingham, 1483 14 



Robert Beeches, 1497 15 



Edmund Lydefield (bishop of Chalcedon), 



1504 16 

 Robert Brommer, 1508 17 

 William Woodbridge, 1509 18 

 Augustine Rivers, 1509 ls 

 Thomas Manning alias Sudbury, suffragan 



bishop of Ipswich, 1528 



The pointed oval fourteenth-century seal of 

 this house bears the Blessed Virgin seated be- 

 neath an elaborately carved niche with sceptre 

 in right hand, having birds billing in the foliage 

 at the top, and with the Holy Child on the left 

 knee. Outside the niche, on each side, is a palm 

 branch. Under an arch in the base is the kneel- 

 ing figure of a prior. Legend : 



:s\ c'e. ecce. sc'. marie, de. buttele. 20 



19. THE PRIORY OF CHIPLEY 



Neither the date of the foundation nor the 

 name of the founder of this small priory of 

 Austin canons, dedicated to the honour of the 

 Blessed Virgin, is known. 



The earliest known records pertaining to it 

 are of the year 1235, relative to lands at Clopton 

 and Denardiston. 21 



The taxation roll of 1 291 gives diverse 

 entries of its small possessions, which then 



1 Proc. Stiff. Arch. Inst, iv, 412, taken from a char- 

 tularv in private hands. 



-' Ibid. 



3 Norw. Epis. Reg. i, 12. This and the following 

 are dates of election. 



' Ibid. 25. 5 Ibid, i, 33. 6 Ibid, i, 46. 



7 Ibid, ii, 51. " Ibid, ii, 58. "Ibid, iv, 48. 



" Ibid, vi, 36. "Ibid. "Ibid vii, 27. 



"Ibid, x, 55. " Ibid, xii, 99. 



15 Add. MS. 19000, fol. 216. 



" ; Tanner, Norw. MSS. 



17 L. and P. Hen. Fill, i, 233 ; Proc. Suff Arch. 

 Inst, iv, 413. This prior committed suicide at 

 Ipswich. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, ii, 325, 746. Royal assent 

 in July, but cancelled by the bishop in December. 



1 Norw. Epis. Reg. xiv, 90. 



*> B.M. Cast, lxxi, 99. 



*' Feet of F. Suff. 19 Hen III, Nos. 83, 175 



reached a total annual income of £4. igs. ^d. ; 

 including 20J. of spiritualities out of Posling- 

 ford church, £3 4*. of lands, meadows, and 

 pasture at Stoke, and 15s. ^d. of smaller tempor- 

 alities at Stansfield, Poslingford, and Gelham 

 Parva (Essex). 22 



Licence was granted in 1343 to Roger Nor- 

 maund to alienate to this priory the manor of 

 Chipley, knights' fees and the advowson of the 

 church excepted, to find two canons to celebrate 

 daily in the priory church for the souls of Roger 

 and Joan his wife, when they shall depart this 

 life, and for his ancestors and heirs. 23 Roger 

 Normaund or Norman died seised of the advow- 

 son or patronage of this priory in 1363. ** From 

 this it seems probable that an ancestor of 

 Norman was the founder. 



The buildings being in a ruinous condition, 

 and the income not exceeding ,£ig, the Bishop 

 of Norwich consented in 1455 to the annexing 

 of this little priory to the collegiate church of 

 Stoke-next-Clare, who had become its patrons. 24 



When the Valor of 1535 was drawn up the 

 college of Stoke held temporalities in Chipley to 

 the annual value of £14 13;. 4^.; and there was 

 also a small pension accruing from the church 

 of Poslingford and the chapel of Chipley. 26 



Priors of Chipley 



John de Cavendish, died 1333 2; 

 Richard de Norwich, elected 1333 M 

 David de Thornham, elected 1349 29 

 Reginald de Rushworth, elected 1350 30 

 Thomas de Hippesworth, resigned 1370 31 

 Richard Man, elected 1370 32 

 Thomas Hepeworth, elected 1395 33 



The pointed oval thirteenth-century seal of 

 this priory bears the Blessed Virgin, half length, 

 with the Holy Child on the left arm ; in base, 

 under a trefoiled arch is the kneeling prior. 

 Legend : 



s' : prioris : de : chippeleia m 



20. THE PRIORY OF DODNASH 



Information respecting the small Austin priory 

 of the Blessed Virgin at Dodnash is somewhat 

 scanty. Neither the time of the foundation nor 

 the name of the founder is known, but it was. 



" Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 17, 121, n\b, 132. 



" Pat. 17 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 15. 



" Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, No. 7. 



* Norw. Epis. Reg. xi, 36. 



16 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 469-70. 



" Norw. Epis. Reg. ii, 62. 



Ibid 

 " Ibid, vi, 3. M Ibid. 

 " B.M. Cast, lxxi, 102 



Ibid, iv, 120 *° Ibid, iv, 129. 

 "Ibid, vi, 210. 



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