RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



for him and his family. • The priory, however, 

 never attained to any degree of prosperity, and at 

 the request of Henry VII. in 1494 Alexander VI. 

 issued a bull for its annexation to the college and 

 hospital of St. George's, Windsor. ^ The bull 

 stated that the priory being of the patronage of 

 the kings of England, founded in a desert place, 

 and for a long time now only able to support a 

 prior with two monks who had not been pro- 

 fessed in the house, was with the church and 

 buildings now in a ruinous condition. The pope 

 stipulated that licence should be obtained from 

 the diocesan for its union, and that the prior and 

 monks should be transferred to other houses with 

 a fit pension from the issues of this foundation.' 

 The execution of the bull was stayed till after 

 the death of the prior in 1504 at Abingdon, 

 whither he had become transferred, and died as 

 lord abbot.* Immediately after Henry VII. pro- 

 cured another bull from Pope Julius II. cancelling 

 the previous grant to Windsor in favour of the 

 king's chapel at Westminster Abbey, which was 

 carried out. 5 



Priors of Luffield 



Mauger 6 occurs before 1 133 



William 7 occurs 1 15 1 



Ralphs occurs 11 74 



Johns 



William '^ occurs before 121 8 



Roger 11 died 1231 



William of Brackley ^^ elected 1 23 1 



Ralf of Silverston^^ elected 1263, resigned 



1275 

 William ofEstenestoni* elected 1275, resigned 



1279-80 



' Browne Willis, Hist, of Mitred Abbies, ii. 26. 

 John Horwood, who eventu.illy succeeded to the rule 

 of the house, is said to have been admitted as a monk 

 on the recommendation of the said benefactor. Ibid. 



* Dugdale, Mon. iv. 352. 3 jbid. 



* Browne Willis, Hist, of Mitred Abbies, ii. 27. 



5 Dugdale, Mon. iv. 352. An entry under date 

 1399 in the Cal. of Papal Letters, v. 199, is perhaps 

 worthy of mention. John Lillingston, a monk of 

 Luffield, received a dispensation from Boniface IX. 

 permitting him while suffering from a rupture caused 

 by a strain during his work in the priory and imper- 

 fectly healed, to absent himself from the choir and 

 visit friends and relatives without requiring the licence 

 of his superior. The injured man is described as 

 zealous in religion and of good life and morals. 



•i Foundation Chart. Dugdale, Mon. iv. 346. 



'/ Bull of Eugenius III. Ibid. 



*> Bull of Alexander III. Ibid. 



8 Browne Willis, Hist, of Mitred Abbies, ii. 25. 

 10 Ibid. 11 Pat. 15 Hen. III. m. 2. 



1* Ibid. '^ Line. Epis. Reg. Roll of Gravesend. 



1* Ibid, and Pat. 3 Edw. I. m. 19. 



Adam de Hanred, Henred or Heurcd*' elected 

 1279-80, resigned 1284 



William of Brackleyi" elected 1284-5, elec- 

 tion annulled 



Adam de Hanred, Henred or Heured reap- 

 pointed 1285,1' resigned 1287 



Richard of Silveston '* elected 1287, resigned 

 same time 



John of Houghton 18 elected 1287, resigned 

 1289 



Gilbert de Merse -" elected 1289, resigned same 

 time 



Peter of Saldeston or Shalstone ^i elected 1289, 

 deposed 1294 



William of Brackley^^ elected 1294, resigned 

 1316 



John of Westbury ^^ elected 1316, died 1344 



William of Skelton ^^ elected 1344, died 1349 



William of Horwood -= elected 1 349, resigned 



1383 

 John Pirye2« elected 1383 



John Horwood-' elected 1396 

 John Hals -8 elected 1420, died 1444 

 John Pinchbeck ^s elected 1444, resigned 1468 

 William Rogers ^o elected 1468, resigned 1488 

 Thomas Rowland'^ elected 1488, resigned's 

 1494 



Pointed oval seal of the thirteenth century 

 taken from a cast at the British Museum,^' repre- 

 sents the Virgin seated on a throne under a 

 trefoiled arch with church-like canopy which is 

 supported on two columns, in her right hand 

 a sceptre fleur-de-lize, on the left knee the Holy 

 Child with cruciform nimbus lifting the right 

 hand in benediction, in the left hand a book. In 

 base a prior kneeling in prayer. 



Legend : s' : commvnis : sancte : marie : 

 d' lvffeilt. 



15 

 IG 



17 



IS 



la 



20 

 21 



23 

 21 

 25 

 2C 

 27 

 28 

 29 

 30 

 31 

 82 

 S8 



Ibid. 8 Edw. I. m. 21. 



Ibid. 13 Edw. I. m. 29. 



Ibid. m. 23 and Line. Epis. Reg. Roll of Sutton 



Pat. I 5 Edw. I. m. 9. 



Line. Epis. Reg. Roll of Sutton. 



Pat. 17 Edw. I. m. 18. 



Ibid. =2 Ibid. 23 Edw. I. m. 18. 



Ibid. 9 Edw. II. m. 15. 



Ibid. 18 Edw. III. pt. 2, m. 15. 



Line. Epis. Reg. Inst, of G}nwe!l, f. 24od. 



Ibid. Inst, of Bokyngham, i. 230. 



Ibid. ii. 184. 



Ibid. Inst, of Fleming, f. 49d. 



Ibid. Inst, of Alnwick, f I 3 I. 



Ibid. Inst, of Chadworth, f. 72d. 



Ibid. Inst, of Russell, f f}},. 



Browne Willis, Hist, of Mitred Abbies, ii. 27. 



Brit. Mus. Ixix. 77. 



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