A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



cated another altar to the honour of St. Mar- 

 tin, the relics of which are not enumerated. 1 



Whilst Peter was prior, the house had re- 

 peatedly to entertain an expensive and doubt- 

 less unwelcome guest. King John tarried at 

 Christchurch, sometimes for two or three 

 days, in the years 1200, 1204, 1205, 1206, 

 1208, 1210, 1212 and 1215.* In January, 

 1216, the king confirmed to the canons the 

 gift of the manor of Fleet. 



By an undated grant Prior Nicholas assigned 

 to the Abbot of Quarr land called ' la Gore ' 

 in the manor of Apse, Isle of Wight, and a 

 yearly rent from the same manor ; in return 

 for which the abbot granted to the prior and 

 convent of Twyneham all the lands in the 

 manor of Fleet, which he had of the gift of 

 Hawise de Redvers. 3 



The chartulary supplies minute particulars 

 as to the receipts and expenses of the different 

 manors pertaining to the priory, as well as 

 customaries, about the year 1270. An entry 

 of that date gives particulars of the synodals 

 paid to the bishop and procurations to the 

 archdeacon, on behalf of different churches 

 and chapels, by the sacrist of the priory. In 

 synodals the payment was 4*. \\d. ; namely 

 the church of Twyneham and the chapel of 

 Milton, each \$d. ; and the chapels of Holden- 

 hurst, Winkton and Haytokesle, 7\d. each ; 

 whilst the archdeacon received 22*. 4^., 

 being Js. $^d. from each of the three churches 

 of Twyneham, Hope and Milford. 4 



The taxation of 1291 returned the annual 

 value of the temporalities of the priory in 

 Hampshire at 35 171. 2d., whilst the rec- 

 tory of Twyneham and chapels were esti- 

 mated at 36 135. 4</. In the diocese of 

 Salisbury they held temporalities to the annual 

 value of 32 3*. 4^., with ^4 from the rec- 

 tory of Fleet, and a pension of ^i from the 

 church of Iwerneminster and the chapel of 

 Hinton. 



Prior Mawry died in 1302 ; his sepulchral 

 slab is still to be seen in the south aisle of the 

 quire. On 3 April the royal assent to the 

 election of William Quyntyn as eleventh 

 prior was signified to the bishop, and he was 

 duly installed. The temporalities were re- 

 stored on 1 6 April. 6 



In November of the same year Peter de 



1 Cott. MS. Tib. D. vi. f. 150. 



2 John's Itinerary, Introduction to Patent Rolls 

 (i 201-16), vol. i. 



8 Ancient Deeds, P.R.O. i. B. 91. 



* Cott. MS. Tib. D. vi. pt. ii. f. 131. 



6 Pat. 30 Edw. I. mm. 27, 24. There is a 

 fall transcript of all the formalities in Pontissera's 

 Register, f. 34. 



Donewyco, the king's clerk, was appointed 

 to act in conjunction with the sheriffs of 

 Sussex, Hants, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucester, 

 Devon and Cornwall, to induce the bailiff's 

 and good men of various towns to send ships 

 furnished with men and necessaries to be ready 

 to set forth by the feast of the Ascension against 

 the Scots, at the king's wages. Twenty-five 

 was the total of the ships demanded from 

 these shores ; Southampton was to send two, 

 Portsmouth and Gosport one jointly, and 

 Yarmouth and Lymington another jointly. 

 Only three ships were to be supplied at the 

 expense of the religious houses of this dis- 

 trict, which embraced the whole of the west 

 of England. The abbot of Battle was to 

 supply one, the alien sea-coast houses of 

 Hamble and St. Helen's another, and the 

 prior of Christchurch a third. 6 This may 

 be taken as a proof of the importance and 

 supposed wealth of this priory, but it was an 

 honour with which the canons would gladly 

 have dispensed. 



In 1306 a mandate was issued by Bishop 

 Woodlock interdicting John de Warham, 

 sub-prior of Christchurch, from leaving the 

 monastery, and in quire and chapter he was 

 to be on a level with the rest of the canons. 7 

 This bishop visited the priory in 1310, on 

 the Thursday after the feast of St. Benedict. 8 

 His register contains no adverse decrees. 



It was during Prior Quyntyn's term of 

 office, viz. in 1312, that the very elaborate 

 chartulary of the priory's evidences and pos- 

 sessions was drawn up, which is in itself a 

 proof of vigorous temporal administration. 



The priory was renowned for the amount 

 of its alms to the poor. On each of the 

 anniversaries of Richard de Redvers the 

 elder, of Adeliza his mother, of Hadewise his 

 daughter, of Richard his son, and of Baldwin, 

 William and Baldwin, Earls of Devon ; of 

 Lady Joan de Briwere, of Bishop Henry de 

 Blois, of Roger Martel, of Adeline of 

 Stampit, and of the priors Reginald and 

 Nicholas, after solemn high mass for the 

 benefactors, forty poor persons received a loaf 

 of bread, a pottle of beer, and a dish from 

 the kitchen. On the anniversaries of Isabel 

 de Fortibus, Countess of Devon ; of Nicholas 

 de Lakinges, sub-dean of Sarum ; and of 

 Walter de Herford, the mason, one hundred 

 poor folk were similarly entertained ; on the 

 anniversary of Ralph Bardolph, sixty poor ; 

 and on the anniversary of Richard de Ores- 

 tull, who gave to the priory the church and 



6 Pat. 30 Edw. I. m. 2. 



7 Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, ff. 53b, 56. 



8 Ibid. ff. 146, 161. 



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