A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Thomas, elected 1206, died 1220 



Adam, elected 1220, died 1231 



Walter of Melton,^ elected 1231, died 1237 



Osbert of LufFenham, elected 1237, resigned 



1241 

 Adam Grillyor Grully, elected 1241, died 1266 

 John Lupus, elected 1266, died 1269 

 Adam de Keylmersch,- elected 1269, died 1274 

 Ralf of Hecham, elected 1274, died 1298-9 

 Nicholas of Flore,8 elected 1298-9, died 1334 

 Gerard of Combes,* elected 1334, died 1354 

 William of Thorp,* elected 1354, died 1378 

 John Cayno,* elected 1378, died 1410. 

 John Bacon,^ elected 1410, died 1430 

 John Watford alias Margyory, elected 1430, 



died 1445 

 William Young, elected 1445, died 147 1 

 John Grauntwell,* elected I47i,died 1476 

 John Wykeley,9 elected 1476 

 Henry Cocks, elected 1498, died 1532 

 John Dasset,!" elected 1532, died 1536 

 William Brokden, appointed 1536-7 



A creamy white pointed oval seal, chipped 

 and injured, attached to a charter of Abbot Wal- 

 kelin, 1180-1206,^^ represents St. James full- 

 length with a cope, in his right hand a long 

 cross, in his left hand a book. In the field on 

 each side an estoile of eight points. 



Legend defaced : SIGIL 



Later seal attached to a deed of Abbot John 

 Lupus or de Lou,^^ 12 66- 1269. The obverse, 

 pointed oval, represents St. James standing, under 

 a carved trefoiled arch with a canopy crowned 

 with two pinnacles, between which is a con- 

 ventional representation of a cruciform church, 

 showing three gables and a central tower sup- 

 ported on slender shafts, on a carved corbel, habited 

 as a pilgrim with cloak, cap, and wallet, in his right 

 hand a pilgrim's staff, in his left hand a book. 

 On each side under the canopy four escallops, 

 in the field outside an estoile of six points, a 

 crescent, a bust, and an escallop. In base under 

 a cusped arch the abbot with pastoral staff, half 

 length in prayer. 



Legend : s'conventvs . sci • iacobi • 



(e)xt(ra . norhatona) 



1 His promotion, ' with the consent of the king,' is 

 recorded in the Lincoln Episcopal Registers, Roll of 

 Wells. 



2 Ibid. Roll of Gravesend. 

 s Pat. 28 Edvv. I. m. 30, and Line. Epis. Reg. 



Inst, of Dalderby, f. 10 1. 



* Pat. 8 Edw. III. pt. 2, m. 34. 



6 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst, of Gynvvell, f. I 54. 



6 Pat. 2 Rieh. II. pt. I, m. 41. 



' Line. Epis. Reg. Inst, of Repingdon, f. 243d. 



8 Pat. 1 1 Edw. IV. pt. I, m. i. 



9 Ibid. 16 Edw. IV. pt. I, m. 13. 



10 L. and P. Hen. Fill. v. 11 39 (23). 



11 Had. CLirr. 84 F. 39. 

 1- Add. Chart. 6043. Another fine impression of the 



obverse is attached to the deed of surrender, No. 173. 



130 



The reverse of the same seal gives the counter- 

 seal of the abbot. It is a smaller pointed oval 

 and represents the abbot standing on a carved 

 corbel, holding in his right hand a pastoral staff, 

 in his left hand a book. In the field on the 

 right an escallop, on each side several pierced 

 cinquefoils. 



Legend : ^sig . . . . abbatis • santi • 



IACOBI • NORH . . . 



The obverse of the seal attached to a charter 

 of Abbot Ralf of Hecham, bearing date of the 

 Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist 1298,1' is the 

 same as the seal given above.'* The reverse is 

 the counter-seal of the abbot, a smaller pointed 

 oval. The subject is indistinct, but represents 

 two figures standing under a tree, and is prob- 

 ably intended for a representation of the Fall. 



Legend : . . . . evam ■ ramo • pdit • 



ADAM 



Signet of Abbot Henry Cocks, 1 498-1 532, 

 oval ; the impression, which is indistinct, repre- 

 sents an escallop of St. James within an orle of 

 six ermine spots (?) in a cusped border.'-* 



12. THE PRIORY OF CANONS 

 ASHBY 



A priory of Austin canons dedicated to the 

 honour of the Blessed Virgin was founded here in 

 the reign of Henry II. by Stephen de Leye, lord of 

 the manor. He bestowed on the new foundation 

 the church of Ashby with four virgates of land, 

 together with a fish pond and mill, ' Rudemede,' 

 the enclosure of ' Segeho,' 26 acres in Ashby 

 field, and houses and crofts as far as the principal 

 gate, half the church of Podington in Bedford- 

 shire, and all the tithes of his court. By another 

 deed he gave for the soul of his father half a hide 

 of land near the church of Ashby, in confirma- 

 tion of which he laid his sword upon the altar 

 of the parish church, calling on all the parish to 

 witness the donation, and by a third deed he 

 gave all the church of Podington and "js. from 

 the mill of 'Snelston' (Bedfordshire).'^ 



Various further benefactions were added to 

 the endowment by the family of the founder, 

 the most important of these being the church of 

 Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, by Hugh his eldest son, 

 and the dovecot of Podington and other grants 

 by Anna, widow of Bartholomew de Leye, son 

 of Hugh, for the maintenance of a lamp to burn 

 perpetually in the chapel of St. Bartholomew 



13 Add. Chart. 21,586. 



1* L.F.C. X. 3. 



'5 Ashby Chart, jxnes R. Orlebar, cited by Baker, 

 Hist. ofNorthants, ii. 7-8. See Hist. MSS. Com. Rr/>. 

 App. iii. 274. A large number of original deeds 

 copied in the Orlebar chartulary are preserved at the 

 P.R.O. 



