RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Wherwell, Weston, Middleton, ' Totington,' 

 Bullington, Good alias Goodworth, Clatford, 

 Little Anne with all the prebend of Good 

 alias Goodworth, ' Aisshesey ' in the Isle of 

 Wight, East Compton with the portion of the 

 tithes in ' Fowleston,' Bathwick, Woolley, 

 ' Mattockesford ' in the parish of Botley, and 

 lands, rents, etc., in Tetbury, ' Wringmershe,' 

 Upton, ' Hethefylde ' and * Bromeley,' Apple- 

 shaw, Wyke, Hursley, Estaston in the parish 

 of Middleton, Winchester and Southampton. 

 Also lands, rents, tithes, etc. in ' Hanydon ' 

 and ' Mildeston ' in Wiltshire ; in Newbury 

 and Inkpen in Berkshire ; in ' Ertingdon,' 

 Guildford and St. Nicholas next Guildford in 

 Surrey. 



The patronage of churches named by the 

 commissioners includes the prebends of Wher- 

 well and Milton and the vicarage of Goodworth 

 in Hampshire, the vicarage of Compton in 

 Berkshire, the parsonages of Collingborne and 

 Everley in Wiltshire, and the prebend of 

 Bathwick in Somerset. 1 



ABBESSES OF WHERWELL 



Heanfled 



Maud, 1186-1226 



Euphemia, 1226-57 



Mary, 4 1259 



Constance, 6 1261-2 



M. de Ticheburne, 6 1262. 



Mabel, 1270-81 



Ellen de Percy, 7 1282-98 



Isabel de Wyntreshall, 8 1298-1333 



Maud de Littleton, 9 1333-40 



Amice Ladde, 10 1340-61 (?) 



Constance de Wyntereshall, u 1361 



Joan Cotterell, 12 1361-75 



Cecily de Lavyngtone, 13 1375-1412 



Alice Parys, u 1412 



Sibyl Boolde, died in 1451 



Alice Serle, 15 1451-2 



Julian Overy, 1452-94 



Maud Rowse, 16 1494-1518 



Avelene Cowdrey, 17 1518-29 



Anne Colte, 18 1529-35 



Morphita Kingsmill, 19 1535-39 



HOUSES OF CISTERCIAN MONKS 



6. THE ABBEY OF QUARR 



The Cistercian abbey of Quarr, dedicated to 

 the honour of the Blessed Virgin, situate on 

 the northern shore of the Isle of Wight, in 

 the parish of Binstead, was one of the earliest 

 foundations of that order in the kingdom. It 

 was founded by Baldwin, the second de 

 Redvers, Lord of the Wight, in 1131. By 

 a charter of that date he granted to Geoffrey, 

 abbot of his Norman monastery of Savigny, 

 land on which to build the monastery, the 

 manor of Arreton, the land of Sheat (Sieca), 

 'Boccumba,' the mill of Christchurch and the 

 mill of ' Boleherst.' * This grant was con- 

 firmed by William de Vernon, Earl of Devon, 

 the son of the founder, about 1195, together 

 with various subsequent grants of lands and 

 salt pits, and of the chapel of St. Nicholas in 

 Carisbrooke castle ; the grantor also gave 

 liberty to the monks of Quarr to buy and sell 

 free of toll in all his lands. 3 



Henry, Duke of Normandy, before he came 



1 Aug. Off. Misc. Books, ccccxciv. 1 7-2 1 . 



2 Worsley's Hist, of Isle of Wight (1781), app. li. 

 Although there is no extant chartulary of this 

 abbey, the number of charters cited in the Monas- 

 ticon and in Madox's Formulart are considerable. 

 There are also about a hundred original charters 

 among the calendared 'Ancient Deeds' of the 

 P.R.O. 



8 Ancient Deeds, P.R.O., D. 942. 



II 137 



to the throne, gave to the monks of Quarr 

 land in ' Locwella ' ad faciendum ibidem 

 capitalem abbatiam^ from which it is evident 

 that the island abbey was considered capable, 

 within twenty years of its foundation, of 

 dispatching a colony to found another mon- 

 astery. 80 About 1150 a composition was 



4 Egerton MS. 2104, f. 35. 



5 Ibid. f. 45b. 6 Royal Letters, 2437. 



7 Pat. 10 Edw. I. m. 18. 



8 Ibid. 27 Edw. I. m. 27. The Wherwell 

 Chartulary contains copies of the letter of Prioress 

 Benedicta to the bishop, asking him to confirm 

 the election of Isabel (Jan. 25), and of the bishop's 

 letter of consent dated February 2 (Egerton'sMSS. 

 2104, ff. 119, ligb, l84b. 



9 Winton. Epis. Reg., Stratford, f. 139; Pat. 7 

 Edw. III. pt. 2, m. n. 



10 Ibid. Orlton, f. 87 ; Pat. 14 Edw. III. pt. I, 

 m. 23. 



11 Ibid. Edingdon, f. I lib. 



12 Tanner's Notifia, xlii. 



13 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, i. ff. 66, 67. 

 Reference has already been made to this election 

 in the Ecclesiastical History section. 



14 Ibid. Beaufort, f. 48b; Rymer's F&dera, viii. 

 764-5. 



15 Ibid. Waynflete, i. ff. 40, 50. 



16 Tanner's Notitia. 



17 Letters and Papers, Henry fill. ii. 3920, 3952, 

 3970, 4006. 



18 Ibid. iv. 5799, 5838. 



19 Pat. 27 Hen. VIII. pt. i. m. 44. 



20 Dugdale's Monasticon, v. 317. 



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