RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



chaplain were to appoint one of their number 

 as precentor, to order the masses and services. 

 The provost, in the presence of the chaplains 

 and the treasurer of Wolvesey, was yearly at 

 Winchester to deliver a statement of account, 

 and a report as to the condition of the chapel 

 and house. No one was to be absent from 

 masses or hours save by special leave. No 

 chaplain or clerk was to be admitted, unless 

 first examined in letters and singing, and in 

 knowledge of the divine offices. Women were 

 not to enter any part of the house, save the 

 chapel and hall. Each chaplain and clerk on 

 admission was to swear to be faithful to the 

 statutes and rules, and to continue in personal 

 residence. 



The original endowment included the ap- 

 propriation of the church of Hursley and 6 

 acres in the meadows of St. Stephen where 

 the college stood. Soon after the foundation, 

 Simon de Fareham gave to the college the 

 manor and church of Botley. Other gifts 

 were the manors, etc., of Kingsclere and 

 ' Culmestone Gynninges,' and lands at Shed- 

 field. 1 



John de Wynfred was the first provost ap- 

 pointed by the founder. 



In 1307, Edward II. inspected and con- 

 firmed the letters patent of his father confirm- 

 ing the foundation charter of the chapel .of St. 

 Elizabeth with the chapel of St. Stephen ; and 

 at the same time confirmed to Richard de 

 Bourne, the provost, and the chaplains and 

 clerks, the grant of appropriation of the church 

 of Hursley, which had been made without 

 the licence of the late king. 3 



In February, 1313, licence was obtained 

 sanctioning the gift to the college of the 

 manor of Norton St. Walery by Robert de 

 Harewedon, clerk, and William de Stamford. 3 

 In the following April, the provost and chap- 

 lains of St. Elizabeth were excused the ser- 

 vice of rendering yearly a sore sparrow-hawk 

 for the manor of St. Walery, at the request 

 of Hugh le Despencer the younger, of whom 

 it had been held in chief by that service.* 



Bishop Asserio collated priests, deacons and 

 sub-deacons to the chapel of St. Elizabeth, 5 and 

 Peter, Bishop of Corbavia, held ordinations in 

 this chapel, on behalf of the Bishop of Win- 

 chester, on 21 November and 18 December, 

 1322, and also on 1 9 February and 12 March, 



1 Inspection and confirmation charter of Ed- 

 ward II. (Pat. 13 Edw. II. pt. I, m. 13). 



8 Pat. i Edw. II. pt. 2, m. 9. 



3 Ibid. 6 Edw. II. pt. I, m. I. 



* Ibid, i Edw. II. pt. 2, m. 15, n. 



8 Winton. Epis. Reg., Asserio, ff. 447, 451, 

 460, 505. 



I323- 8 The ordination of 18 December was 

 a large one, there being 75 acolytes, 27 

 sub-deacons, 36 deacons and 47 priests. 



We find that in 1 346 the college held one 

 knight's fee in Norton and Sutton Scotney, 

 a twelfth part of a fee in Clerewodcott, one 

 fee in Culmeston and half a fee in Botley. 7 



In 1350, Bishop Edingdon, in direct con- 

 travention of his predecessor's statutes, obtained 

 the papal sanction for John de Nubbelaye, 

 rector of Alresford and canon of Romsey, to 

 hold the provostship of the chapel, together 

 with his rectory and canonry, as the income of 

 the chapel was too small to be held by itself. 8 



Bishop Edingdon, when ratifying to the 

 college the gift of Hursley church, contrived 

 in some way to secure to himself and suc- 

 cessors the rectory house. The possession of 

 the rectory was however restored to Provost 

 John de Sheptone and the chaplain by Wyke- 

 ham in 1373, when the college undertook to 

 pay an annual pension of 135. 4^. to the 

 bishop. 9 



In September, 1400, the bishop commis- 

 sioned John Elmore, the official, and Simon 

 Trembury, treasurer of Wolvesey, to visit the 

 college. 10 



After the death of Bishop Wykeham, the 

 provosts of St. Elizabeth were in the main 

 non-resident and the holders of other prefer- 

 ments. 



The college of St. Elizabeth was visited 

 on 4 March, 1501, by the commissary of 

 the prior of Canterbury, during the vacancy 

 of the see. The visitation entry merely states 

 that Richard Wilmer, precentor, appeared as 

 proctor for Richard Newport, the provost, 

 and gives the names of five chaplains, five 

 clerks and seven choristers who were present. 



When the Fa lor of 1535 was taken, 

 ' Doctor Pers ' (Peers) was provost ; the gross 

 annual value was declared at j 1 20 o;. 8d. and 

 the clear value at 112 ijs. 4^. 



On the dissolution of this college among 

 the smaller houses, in 1536, it formed one of 

 the numerous grants made by Henry VIII. 

 to Thomas Wriothesley, who sold the site to 

 the warden and fellows of Winchester Col- 

 lege for 360. 



Leland describes the college of St. Elizabeth 

 as ' situate Est upon the New College ; and 

 ther is but a litle narro causey betwixt them. 



6 Ibid. Asserio, Hants Record Society, pp. 



544-52- 



7 Feudal Aids, ii. 326, 331, 334, 337. 



8 Cal. of Papal Petitions, i, 208 ; Cat. of Papal 

 Letters, iii. 456. 



9 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. 79b. 

 10 Ibid. iii. f. 327. 



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