A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



DEANS OR HEADS OF THE HOUSE 



Godric 



Ranulph Flambard, to 1128 



Gilbert de Dousgunels, 1128 



Peter de Oglander 



Ralph 



Hilary, about 1 1 40 



PRIORS 



Reginald, about 1150 

 Julian, 1 1 1 6 1 

 Ralph, 1 186-95 

 Peter, 1195-1225 (?) 

 Roger, 1225 

 Nicholas de Warham 

 Nicholas de Sturminster, 1272 

 John de Abingdon, 1272-8 

 William de Nitheravene, 1278 

 Richard Maury,* 1287-1302 

 William Quyntyn, 3 1302-17 

 Walter Tydolneshide, 4 1317 

 Edmund de Ramsbury, 1323-37 

 Richard de Bustehorne, 5 1337 

 Robert de Legh, 6 1340 

 William Tyrewache, 7 1345-57 

 Henry Eyre, 1357-77 

 John Wodenham, 8 1377-97 

 John Borard, 9 1397 

 Thomas Talbot, d. 1420 

 John Wimborne 

 William Norton 

 John Dorchester, 10 about 1450 

 John Draper I., 1477-1501 

 William Eyre, 11 1501-20 

 John Draper II., la 1521-39 



ii. THE PRIORY OF ST. DENIS, 



SOUTHAMPTON 



The priory of St. Denis was founded by 

 Henry I. about the year 1124 for Austin 

 Canons. The foundation charter, directed to 

 Bishop Gifford, William de Ponte Arche, the 

 sheriff, and the burgesses of Southampton, 

 granted to God and the church of St. Denis 



I Charter at Belvoir. 



8 Winton. Epis. Reg., Pontoise, f. 4. 



3 Pat. 30 Edw. I. mm. 27, 24 (There is a full 

 transcript of all the formalities in Winton. Epis. 

 Reg., Pontoise, f. 34). 



Winton. Epis. Reg., Sandale, f. lib. 



5 Ibid. Orlton, i. f. 5 3 ; and chartulaiy lists. 



6 Ibid. i. f. 95 ; and chartulary lists. 



7 Ibid. Edingdon, i. f. 43 ; chartulary, f. 134^ 

 Ibid. Wykeham, iii. f. 86, and also chartulary. 



Ibid. ff. 277-9. F uU details of the confirma- 

 tion and installation are given. 

 o Ibid. Waynflete, ff. 47)5-53, c. 1450. 

 1 Letters and Papers, Hen. Vlll. ii. j 23 6. 



II Winton. Epis. Reg., Fox, iv. ff. 31-6. 



and the canons serving God there, for the 

 health of his soul and of the souls of his father 

 and mother, Maud his wife and William his 

 son, a parcel of land between Portswood and 

 the Itchen, having a rental of i is. 6d., together 

 with another parcel of land near the sea to the 

 east of the borough, having a rental of 411. 6d. 

 Girard, the canon named in this charter, was 

 doubtless the first prior. 13 King Stephen con- 

 firmed to the canons the grant of land at 

 Baddesley made by Robert de Limesey." 



William son of Audoenus gave to Adelard 

 the prior and the canons in 1151 the manor 

 of Northam, which grant was confirmed by 

 charters of Henry II., Bishop Blois and St. 

 Thomas of Canterbury. Henry II. also 

 granted to the canons his chapels of St. 

 Michael, the Holy Rood, St. Lawrence and 

 All Saints within Southampton. The posses- 

 sions of the priory during this reign consisted 

 of three ploughlands in Portswood, three 

 groves of woodland, i oo acres of pasture, 40 

 acres of meadow, and 400 acres of marsh. 15 

 On 8 September, 1189, Richard I. gave to 

 the priory Kingsland and the wood called 

 Portswood. The chartulary has a most 

 interesting mention of the customary work 

 which the men of Portswood did for the king 

 as lord of the manor before Henry I. gave it 

 to the canons. Subsequently the same ser- 

 vices were rendered to the prior. 16 



Hadewise, Abbess of Romsey (113055), 

 granted a perpetual corrody of meat and drink, 

 such as was served for one of their nuns, to her 

 brothers and benefactors, the canons of St. 

 Denis. 17 Geoffrey Hose, one of the justices of 

 Henry II., about 1 1 80 granted to the priory 

 a parcel of land at Edboldington and the 

 church of Little Faccombe. 18 



In 1 20 1 King John granted a confirmation 

 charter, and in 1 204 Bishop Godfrey de Lucy 

 confirmed the gift of William Aliz, which 

 consisted of a tithe of his yearly rents and 

 pannage at Aldington, 51. annually from the 

 mill of Aldington, and pannage in his woods 

 for thirty pigs. Humphrey de Bohun, Earl 

 of Hereford, confirmed in the time of Edward 

 I. the gift made by his father of the church of 



13 Dugdale's Monasticm, vi. 213. u Ibid. 



15 Add. MS. 15314, f. 100. The references 

 to the above-named and subsequent charters are 

 taken from this MS., which is a chartulary of the 

 priory, of 126 folios, purchased by the British 

 Museum in 1844. It lacks some folios both at 

 the beginning and end. Good use was made of it 

 in Davies' History of Southampton (1883), pp. 433 

 -42. 



8 AddMSS. 15314, f. 99b. 



17 Madox's Formulare Anglicanum, p. 241. 



18 Ibid. p. 278, also chartulary. 



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