RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



trouble ; Love became a prisoner in the Fleet, 

 we know not on what charge, and in October, 

 X 394> the custody of the Oratory was com- 

 mitted by the bishop to the joint care of 

 Nicholas, rector of Niton, and William Smyth, 

 vicar of Brading. 1 In 1403 a commission 

 was directed to the abbot of Quarr and the 

 rector of Niton to inquire into charges of 

 apostacy, sacrilege, and other grave offences 

 preferred against Love, which resulted in his 

 removal.* 



In 1439 Warden Thurbern, of Winchester 

 College, petitioned Cardinal Beaufort to per- 

 mit the appropriation of the oratory to the 

 college on the ground of the insufficiency of 

 their income, which had been recently much 

 impaired by a fire among their house property 

 at Andover. Walter Trengof, the archpriest, 

 who had just been appointed archdeacon of 

 Cornwall, his native county, raised no objec- 

 tion. The cardinal bishop gave his consent, 

 and the return to writ ad quod damnum was 

 favourable. On 27 March, 1439, the royal 

 licence to Walter Trengof to alienate, and to 

 the warden and scholars of Winchester to ac- 



quire and hold in mortmain the possessions of 

 the oratory was duly sealed. 



The college covenanted to maintain a chap- 

 lain in the chapel of the Barton oratory, to 

 deliver a pound of wax annually to the war- 

 den of St. Mary's altar in the minster of St. 

 Swithun, and to celebrate Trengof's obit in 

 consideration of his surrender. 



The chaplain's stipend of j[6 was duly 

 paid and service maintained at Barton until 

 the days of Edward VI., when all divine 

 worship ceased within its walls. 



ARCHPRIESTS OR PRIORS OF BARTON 



Jordan de Marisco, 1275 



Simon in the time of Edward II. 



Nicholas de Alresford, elected 1310 



Richard, 1343 



Roger Pope of Exeter, 1349 



Robert Somborne, 136683 



Gilbert Noreys, 1386 



William Love, 1387-1403 



John Godewyne, 1417 



John Bradshawe, 1423-4 



Walter Trengof, 6 1424-39 



HOUSE OF PREMONSTRATENSIAN CANONS 



17. THE ABBEY OF TITCHFIELD 



The Premonstratensian Abbey of Titch- 

 field, nine miles south-east of Southampton, 

 was founded by Bishop Peter des Roches 

 in the year 1222, when a colony of White 

 Canons were invited to settle there from the 

 Shropshire Abbey of Halesowen. By the 

 foundation charter the Abbey of St. Mary 8 

 was endowed with the manor of Titchfield 

 and its appurtenances, and with lands in 

 Swanwick, Porchester, Walsworth and Cos- 

 ham. This was confirmed, with grants of 

 the fullest privileges, by Henry III. in 1231.* 

 Other important grants were those of the 

 manor of Cadlands and lands in Hythe, 

 Stanswood, and Woodcott and Felde (in 

 Fawley parish) by Eva de Clinton, daughter 

 and heiress of Roger de Escures ; the manor 

 and lands of Inkpen (Berks) by the Mansels ; 

 the manor and lands of Corhampton and the 

 wood of Charlwood by the founder ; lands in 

 Stubbington and Chark by the Rayners, Bretts 

 and St. Johns. 



1 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. 280. 



* Ibid. f. 357. 



3 The church was dedicated in honour of the 

 Assumption of the Blessed Mary (Add. MSS. 4935, 

 f. 6 1). 



* Dugdale's Monasticon, vi. 931. 



The Harley MSS. 6602 and 6603 con- 

 tain transcripts and extracts from three 

 Titchfield registers belonging to the Duke 

 of Portland, which were made in 1739. 

 Their accuracy is assured, for they were 

 collated with the originals in 1830-1 by 

 Sir F. Madden, and corrected in red ink. 

 The first register gives a large number of 

 grants and customs of manors ; at the end 

 is a list of abbots, 6 drawn up about 1390, 

 when John de Romsey was abbot, and after- 

 wards brought down to the eve of the dis- 

 solution. The following is a translation of 

 the list : 



Richard, the first abbot, came from Halesowen 

 with his brethren in the year 1222, and ruled this 

 church well and religiously. He died on 16 June, 

 and was buried before the door of the chapter-house. 



Isaac was the second abbot ; in his time the 

 manors of Cadlands and Inkpen were acquired. 

 He died on 19 June, and was buried in the 

 cloister before the door of the chapter-house, on 

 the right hand of the monument of the first 

 abbot. 



After his death, Henry de Branewyk succeeded 

 him. He was afterwards sought as abbot of Hales- 

 owen, and there rested in peace. 



6 Stone's Arch. Ant'tq. I. W. pt. i. p. 62. 

 6 Harl. MS. 6602, pp. 140-3 ; f. 214 of the 

 original register. 



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