A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



rate of jio a year. 1 On 28 June the con- 

 vent gave way to the bishop, and put the 

 selection of a prior from among their canons 

 into his hands, with the result that William 

 de Wareham was appointed, and received the 

 episcopal benediction on 18 July." 



In 1330, the priory received letters patent 

 granting that on the death of the royal pen- 

 sioner John atte Lane, who took the place of 

 John de Ash, deceased, they should not be 

 called upon to admit any one in his place. 3 

 This grant was made on 10 May, but on I 

 June the king insisted on his right to send a 

 new pensioner clerk on the new creation of a 

 prior, and sent to them Master William de 

 Kirkham. 4 



Edward III. granted the priory of St. Denis 

 a charter to secure to them yearly a tun of 

 wine, between Christmas and the Annuncia- 

 tion, for use at masses for the souls of the 

 faithful departed ; and in February, 1334, 

 Richard de la Pole, the king's butler in the 

 port of Southampton, had orders to deliver to 

 the prior a tun of red wine of the first wines 

 brought to the port. 5 



Bishop Orlton visited St. Denis on 22 

 November, 1334, and preached in the chapter 

 house from the text, 'Israel shall dwell safely.' 6 

 In the same month the bishop confirmed to 

 the priory the appropriations of the churches 

 of East Tytherley, Shirley and Chilworth, 

 and the chapels of Holy Trinity and St. 

 Andrew, Southampton, also pensions from 

 the following Southampton churches : St. 

 Michael, bos. ; St. Cross, 135. $d. ; St. 

 Lawrence, 131. \d. ; and All Saints, 265. 8</. 7 



In 1346, Bishop Edingdon licensed for 

 celebrations an oratory lately built over the 

 outer gateway in honour of St. Katherine. 8 



A commission of three was issued by Bishop 

 Wykeham in September, 1381, to visit the 

 priory of St. Denis on the Saturday after 

 Michaelmas Day ; as no injunctions followed 

 there could have been no serious defect. 9 In 

 the same year, John Stamford, one of the 



1 Pat. 2 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 5. 



2 Ibid. 2 Edw. III. p. 2, m. 29 ; Stratford's 

 Register, ff. lo8b, logb, no. The bishop's scribe 

 makes the mistake in two places of describing the 

 late prior as Peter de Stanham. 



3 Pat. 4 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 24. 



4 Close, 4 Edw. III. m. 3od. 



5 Ibid. 8 Edw. III. m. 37. This order to the 

 king's butler at Southampton was repeated in 1336, 

 1337 and 1338. The last time that there is 

 evidence of the delivery of this wine is in 1528. 



Winton. Epis. Reg., Orlton, i. f. 1 1. 



Ibid. f. I2b. 



8 Ibid. Edingdon, ii. f. zb. 



9 Ibid. Wykeham, iii. f. 190. 



canons, was appointed coadjutor in conse- 

 quence of the infirmities of Richard de 

 Stamford, the prior. 10 



On 19 May, 1382, Richard II. inspected 

 and confirmed in favour of John Machon of 

 Quidhampton, and Edith his wife, three 

 indentures for corrodies with the priory of St. 

 Denis : (a) A grant, dated 1365, for the life 

 of Edith of a white loaf and a gallon of ale 

 daily, a canon's pittance of food and drink 

 daily from the kitchen, and six yards of 

 coloured cloth of the suit of esquires for her 

 robe on All Saints' Day, provided that John 

 did not leave the convent's service. (i>) A 

 grant, dated 1376, to John Machon and 

 Margery his daughter for their lives and the 

 life of the longer liver, of a white loaf and a 

 black loaf called ' sweynlof ' daily, and of the 

 reversion on the death of Edith of the livery 

 granted to her. (<r) A life grant, dated 1372, 

 to the said John of the chamber over the 

 middle gate of the priory, with free ingress and 

 egress for himself and his household, a white 

 loaf such as a canon had, and a gallon of ale 

 daily, a canon's pittance daily from the kitchen, 

 and a robe yearly such as one of the free 

 servants of the prior had, or i Of. in lieu there- 

 of, also two cartloads of firewood yearly, with 

 power, in case of default, to distrain on their 

 manors in Hampshire. 11 



The town of Southampton was a long time 

 in recovering from the serious damage done in 

 1338, when a large portion was sacked and 

 burnt by the French. In April, 1385, pro- 

 tection was granted to the priory of St. Denis 

 and its possessions, it being recited that much 

 of its property had been burnt and destroyed 

 by the French, putting the convent to 

 immense cost in repairing their tenements and 

 in fortifying the town, so that they were 

 deeply in debt and had not the means to pay 

 pensions and corrodies or to maintain their 

 canons. Thomas, Earl of Nottingham, and 

 three others were appointed to the custody of 

 its temporalities. 12 The same custodians were 

 reappointed for two years in 1387." 



William of Wykeham left by his will 

 twenty marks for the repair of the church of 

 the priory of St. Denis. 



In 1465 Edward IV. inspected and con- 

 firmed to the priory a great variety of charters 

 from Henry I. to Richard II. 



This priory was visited on 15 March, 1501, 

 by Dr. Hede, the commissary of the priory of 

 Canterbury, in the vacancy of the sees of both 



10 Ibid. f. 1943. 



11 Pat. 5 Ric. II. pt. 2, m. n. 



12 Ibid. 8 Ric. II. pt. 2, m. 16. 



13 Ibid. 10 Ric. II. pt. 2, m. 25. 



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