A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



coming to terms with the monks of his cathedral church. In 1284 

 the bishop yielded to the prior the right of appointing and re- 

 moving the officials of the monastery. In return the priory sur- 

 rendered to the bishop the manors of Droxford, Alverstoke and 

 Havant. 



The glories and the troubles of Winchester now came for the most 

 part to an end. The city ceased to be a favourite royal residence. The 

 chief events of the church history of Hampshire are no longer to be 

 gleaned from among the bloodstained annals of royal struggles, but are 

 henceforth to be found in the quiet volumes of episcopal registers, 

 stored in unbroken succession from 1282 down to the present day on the 

 shelves of the diocesan registry. 



John of Pontoise's beautifully kept and detailed register gives a 

 considerable insight into the working of the diocese, and shows that 

 there was a most genuine oversight throughout the twenty-two years of 

 his episcopate. 



The first entry records the institution, in 1282, of Thomas de Anne 

 to the vicarage of Amport, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter 

 of Chichester. Various other Hampshire vicarages had been founded 

 before this episcopate to which there are institutions or collations in this 

 register. Such are the vicarages of Chilworth, the rectory being appro- 

 priated by the priory of St. Denis of Southampton ; of Crondall and 

 Twyford, appropriated by the hospital of St. Cross ; of Eastmeon, by 

 the abbey of St. Swithun ; of Eling and Somborne, by the priory of 

 Mottisfont ; of Hayling, by the abbey of Jumieges ; and of Porches- 

 ter, by the priory of Southwick. 



It is not possible in this diocese, as is the case with the great diocese 

 of Lincoln, 1 to give definite particulars and dates as to the earlier vicar- 

 ages, as the older registers or rolls are missing. A considerable propor- 

 tion of the churches of England were in the hands of the monasteries 

 in the twelfth century. Where the living was a good one, the monks 

 or canons who had control of the revenue of the benefice usually hired a 

 clerk or chaplain to serve the cure on the best terms that they could 

 arrange for the interests of their own house. These parochial chaplains 

 were mere servants of the convent and dismissible at will. This custom 

 practically withdrew such parishes from episcopal control, in addition to 

 other evils, and hence was resisted by the bishops. The custom of 

 ordaining vicarages that is, making the appointment perpetual and 

 subject to episcopal institution, and assigning a definite income to the 

 vicar began to come into force here and there in the latter half of the 

 twelfth century,' and was enjoined by the third Lateran Council of 

 1179. 



The more powerful monasteries throughout England resisted how- 

 ever all attempts to control their action in such cases, notwithstanding the 



| The extant Liber Antlqum Hugoni, WM (1209-35) deals solely with vicarages. 



which w^ fo, S ; rrnedTn 6 n^T' ** " *" f '"^ ^-P^ire, *. vicarage of 



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