ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



The question of alien priories (which will receive further attention 

 under the respective houses) somewhat particularly affected Hampshire, 

 as the number of cells or small priories owing allegiance to foreign 

 mother-houses was considerable in this county. Their revenues had 

 from time to time been seized in the reigns of John, and Edward I. 

 Edward III., during the long struggle with France, continually appointed 

 to churches in their gift until the peace of 1361. Although the com- 

 plete suppression of these houses was not accomplished until the days of 

 Wykeham's successor in 1415, nevertheless the matter was much agitated 

 during this episcopacy. There can be no doubt which way Wykeham's 

 strong national sympathies would run. In 9 March, 1370, the bishop 

 directed a mandate to his archdeacons, asking for a return by Easter of 

 the number of aliens, secular and religious, beneficed in their arch- 

 deaconries, with their names and the annual value of their benefices. 1 A 

 like mandate was issued in February, 1385. The return to this latter 

 mandate gave the following : 



Priory of Carisbrook : Thomas de Val Osoul, a monk of Lire, prior : 130 marks. 

 Priory of Apuldercombe : Peter de Mouster, a monk of St. Mary de Montebourg, 



Normandy, prior : ^45- 



Priory of Andover : Denys Chanon, a monk of St. Florent, Anjou, prior : 80 marks. 

 Church of Combe : Prior of Okeborne, an alien monk, rector : 10. 

 Priory of West Shirborne : Inguerand de Dinno, a monk of St. Vigor's, diocese of 



Bayeux, prior : ^23 3*. %d. 

 Priory of Andwell : In the hands of Thomas Driffelde and Elienora his wife : 



2O marks. 

 Priory of Hayling : John de Ousqueto, a monk of Jumieges, Normandy, prior : i io. 8 



A writ for a return of all presentations to alien priories recorded in 

 extant episcopal registers was issued in 1401. The return from Win- 

 chester begins with Pontoise's registers, and records the presentation and 

 institution during a little more than a century of the following priors of 

 the alien houses of Hampshire : Andover, seven ; Carisbrook, seven ; 

 Ellingham, five ; and H amble, five. 3 



Though of a gentle disposition, Wykeham felt bound to join in the 

 movement against the extravagances of Wycliffe and his followers. On 

 21 May, 1382, the bishop directed his mandate to the vicar of Odiham 

 and to all the chaplains ministering in the parish church or any of its 

 chapels, inhibiting Nicholas Hereford, John Ashton, Robert Alynton, 

 Lawrence Bedeman of Cornwall and others their accomplices and followers 

 from preaching or teaching in the church of Odiham or elsewhere in 

 the diocese, under pain of excommunication. 4 Wykeham had been one 

 of the ten bishops present at the council held at Blackfriars, London, 

 only three days before (18 May), when, amidst an earthquake, considered 

 ominous both by the Lollards and their opponents, ten of Wycliffe's 



did not stop two nights in one place. On arrival at the port he was to seek diligently for passage, and 

 if he could not obtain it he was to go daily into the sea up to his knees as though essaying to pass over. 

 If within forty days he could not get passage he was then again to place himself in sanctuary in the 

 nearest church. See Sanctuaries, by T. J. de Mazzinghi (1887). 



1 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, pt. iii. f. 323. 



a Ibid. pt. iii. f. 213. 3 Ibid. pt. iv. pp. 39, 40. * Ibid. pt. iii. f. 1940. 



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