A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



the first series of dissolutions, and it was sur- 

 rendered on 10 July, 1 53&. 1 



The site of the priory was granted in 

 November of that year to Henry, Marquis of 

 Exeter, and Gertrude his wife, together with 

 all its possessions. The grant particularizes 

 these as the manors of ' Bulborne Haywode ' 

 (Breamore), ' Robstead ' and Langley, Hants ; 

 Wilton, and 'Corton with Ostum St. George,' 

 Wilts ; Canford and Pimperne, Dorset ; 

 Portbury, Somerset ; and Northcote, Devon ; 

 with all lands in those places and in ' Bernes,' 

 South Charford, Hardley, Creech, Fording- 

 bridge, Gorley and Ibsley, Hants ; Ebbes- 

 borne and ' Gysardston,' Wilts ; and the 

 rectories and chapels of Breamore, Rockburne, 

 Whitsbury and Brading, Hants. The mar- 

 quis was also to receive as much fuel as he 

 required out of the New Forest, and all other 

 rights that had been enjoyed by the prior. A 

 rental was reserved to the Crown of 



The sycophancy of Prior Finch met with 

 its reward. On 26 June, 1536, he was 

 assigned a pension of ^18,* and in March, 

 1538, he was appointed to the suffragan 

 bishopric of Taunton. 4 He was consecrated 

 in the Lady Chapel, Blackfriars, by the 

 Bishops of Rochester, Colchester and St. 

 Asaph on 7 April ; 8 he died in 1559. 



PRIORS OF BREAMORE 



Robert, 8 about 1129 

 Geoffrey, 7 time of Hen. II. 

 S., 8 about 1244 



Thomas de Pimperne, 9 1286, 1301 

 Thomas Dounton, 10 elected 1308 

 William le Eyr, resigned 1327 

 James de Wyttenham, 1327," 1339" (?) 

 John de Wallup, 1342," 1352" 

 Thomas, about I356 15 

 John de Tyneham alias Sussebury, 16 

 1361-90 



1 Aug. Off., Misc. Books, cccc. 23. 



2 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII. pt. I, m. 8. 



3 Aug. Misc. Books, ccxxxii. f. 17. 



4 Rymer's fcedera, xiv. 587. 



5 Cant. Archiep. Reg., Cranmer, f. 214. 

 8 Madox's Formulare Angficanutn, 39. 



7 Ibid. 22, 368. 



8 Ibid. 84. 



Ancient Deeds, P.R.O. 



10 Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, f. 86b. 



11 Ibid. Stratford, f. 10. 



12 Madox's Formulare Anglicanum, 92. 



13 Winton. Epis. Reg., Orlton, i. f. 112. 



14 Ancient Deeds, P.R.O., B. 61 1. 



15 Ibid. B. 675. 



16 Winton. Epis. Reg., Edingdon, ii. f. 107. 



John Berard, 1390-1431 



John London, 17 1431 



Thomas Hunspill, 18 1435-67 



Robert Stokys, 19 1467-90 



John Herries, 20 1490 



John Chandler, elected before 1501, 



resigned in 1508 

 William Hollyngborne, 21 I5o8-about 



I5II 

 William Finch, 1511-36 



14. THE PRIORY OF MOTTIS- 

 FONT 



This priory of Austin canons, dedicated to 

 the Holy Trinity, was founded by William 

 Briwere about 1 2O0. 2a His chief gifts were 

 lands at Mottisfont, Hale and Eldon, and the 

 churches of Longstock and Ashley. To these 

 his brother John Briwere added the church 

 of Little Somborne. King John granted a 

 confirmation charter of these gifts, dated 

 23 October, 1204, and added thereto, as his 

 own donation to the canons, the church of 

 Eling. On the death of his wife Beatrice, 

 the founder gave to the priory all his lands in 

 the adjacent parish of Michelmarsh, and five 

 marks in rent from Barbache, to keep her 

 anniversary. William Briwere, the son of 

 the founder, gave them the church of King's 

 Somborne, and the mill and 40 acres of land 

 at Stockbridge, together with rents at Mottis- 

 font and elsewhere, to keep his anniversary. 

 Margery de la Ferte, daughter of the founder, 

 confirmed all these gifts, and also materially 

 increased the priory's endowment, particularly 

 with lands at Trusbury and Compton, and 

 with lands and buildings at Winchester, both 

 within and without the walls. 23 



The obituary of the Mottisfont canons 

 shows that they observed the anniversary of 

 Peter de Rivallis, a brother of the founder, 

 on 23 November. It is stated that he was 

 known as 'The holy man in the wall,' and 

 that many miracles were worked through him. 

 He gave a large sum of money and many 

 jewels to purchase a rent-charge to secure the 

 keeping of his anniversary. Queen Eleanor 

 also conferred many possessions and goods on 

 the priory to secure the perpetual keeping of 



17 Cole MS. and Ancient Deeds, P.R.O., B. 



3262. 



18 Ancient Deeds, P.R.O., B. 95, 844. 



19 Winton. Epis. Reg., Waynflete, i. f. I jb. 



20 Ibid. Courtney, f. 8b. 



21 Ibid. Fox, ii. f. 99. 



M Briwere was a judge of some eminence ; see 

 Diet. Nat. Blag., vi. 297. 

 23 Dugdale's Monasticon, vi. 481. 



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