RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



surrendered their house on 20 October, 1538. 

 The deed was signed by John Howell, prior, 

 William Harrison, sub-prior, and seven other 

 friars.' John Walklynge and Thomas Gyfte 

 were appointed attorneys to deliver the property 

 to Dr. London for the king's use. The report 

 of Dr. London nine days after the surrender, to 

 the effect that the friary was a beggarly place 

 and all that it contained would not suffice to 

 pay its debts,^ is very much to the credit of this 

 mendicant house. A memorandum of Dr. Lon- 



don, drawn up early in 1539, states that the 

 chancel of the White Friars' church had a new 

 fair roof covered with slate, and that it was meet 

 for the king's use at Grafton Regis. ° 



The pointed oval fifteenth-century seal of this 

 house represents a saint lifting up the right hand 

 and holding in the left a long cross under a tree ; 

 a worshipper kneels before him ; there is a bird 

 on a branch.' 



Legend : + s commu . . norham . . IE. 



HOSPITALS 



23. THE HOSPITAL OF ARMSTON 



In 1232 Ralph de Trubleville and Alice his 

 wife built a hospital with a chapel, dedicated to 

 the honour of St. John Baptist, at Armston, a 

 hamlet of Polebrook, on their own ground, with 

 the assent of Robert le Fleming, the patron and 

 parson of the church of Polebrook. The entry 

 of this foundation in Bishop Wells's roll states 

 that the chaplain and brothers were to be dressed 

 in a religious habit of russet cloth with the figure 

 of a pastoral staff in red cloth on the breast. 

 There was to be a belfry attached to the chapel 

 for calling together the brethren, who were to 

 be duly ministered to by the chaplain. Licence 

 was granted by the bishop for a cemetery 

 attached to the hospital, where the lay brothers 

 {convent) and the poor and sick of the hospital 

 might be buried ; but the mother church was to 

 receive all offerings from the hospital. 



It is also recorded in the same year that 

 Aumary Schelton, chaplain, was presented by 

 Alice de Trubleville to the rule of the hospital 

 of Armston.' 



Pope Boniface IX. in 1393 issued a mandate 

 to the abbot of Sautre and the archdeacons of 

 Buckingham and Ely to correct and reform the 

 statutes, ordinances, and customs of the chapel 

 or hospital of the poor of St. John (Baptist) 

 Armston, in the diocese of Lincoln, going thither 

 in person, and summoning, if expedient, the 

 patron, rector, and minister thereof.^ 



The hospital was again the subject of a papal 

 mandate in 1 40 1, when Boniface directed the 

 bishop of Aquila to intervene in a dispute as to 

 the church of Oundle, which had become void 

 through the resignation of the late Richard 

 Treeton, on his acceptance of ' the hospital with 

 cure of St. John, Armston.'^ 



The Chantry and College Commissioners of 

 the end of Henry VIII. 's reign reported that the 

 ' chantry ' of Armston with ^^8 i^. 4^4. a year had 

 been dissolved by Sir Richard Kirkham since 



' L. and P. Hen. Fill. xiii. pt. 2, 654. 



- Ibid. 719. 3 Line. Epis. Reg. Roll of Wells. 



* Cal. of Papal L. iv. 456. 6 ibij_ y, ^g-. 



4 February, 1 535-6*; the commissioners of 

 2 Edward VI. that it had been sold since the 

 last commission to * Syr Edmund Mountague, 

 Knight, Cheyf Justice of the Commonplais as yt 

 is seyd.' ^ 



Masters or Priors of Armston 



Aumary of Schelton, 1° 1232 



Hugh,^^ died 1298 



Henry of Barnton,^^ 1298, resigned 1303 



John le Moyne,'^ 1303 



Robert Stacy,'* resigned 1332 



John of Felmersham,'^ 1332, resigned 1344 



Roger Saltiel,!* I344, resigned 1345 



Walter of Eketon,'^ I345) died 1349 



Roger of Milton,'^ I349> died 1353 



John Stalleworth,'^ 1353> died 1354 



Regnold Pothors,^'' I354> died 1357 



William de Percehag,^' 1357) died 1 36 1 



Robert Martyn, 1361,°*' died same year 



William of Clopton,^^ 1361, died 1369 



Henry of Etyngton,^* 1369, died 1381 



Richard of Treton,25 1381, resigned 1390 



William Wynceby,^^ 1390, resigned 1392 



John Belle,^^ 1392, resigned 1394 



John Gryme,28 1394 



William Mason,-^ ^430, died 1437 



Thomas Petham,'" I437> died in same year 



Thomas Cooke,^' I437> resigned 1446 



6 L. and P. Hen. Fill. xiv. pt. i, 3. 



^ Taken from cast .it the British Museum, Ixix. 91. 

 8 Coll. and Chant. Certificates, No. xxx\'i. 33. 

 ^ Ibid. xxxv. 44. 



10 Line. Epis. Reg. Roll of Wells. 



11 Ibid. Inst, of Sutton, f. 65. 13 Ibid. 

 13 Ibid. Inst, of D-ilderby, f. 105. 



1* Ibid. Inst, of Burghersh, f. 195^'. 16 Ibid. 



18 Ibid. Inst, of Beck, f. 65. 17 Ibid. f. 7',. 



18 Ibid. Inst, of Gynwell, f. 130. 19 Ibid. f. 153. 

 20 Ibid. f. i?5</. 21 ibiJ. f. ,68. 



23 Ibid. f. 188. 23 Ibid. f. 1 89. 



•* Ibid. Inst, of Bokyngham, f. 178. 



25 Ibid. f. 223^. 26 Ibid. ii. f. 154^-. 



27 Ibid. f. 164. 2S Ibid. f. 168/ 



23 Ibid. Inst, of Fleming, f. 83d'. 

 so Ibid. Inst, of Alnwick, f. 143.8'. 

 31 Ibid. f. \i6d. 



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