RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



them during the war with France, granted 

 that John should hold the priory of Sele with- 

 out fine or farm, and commanded the sheriff 

 of Hampshire to take Andover priory into his 

 hands and to account for the true value thereof 

 from the date of the removal of Prior John. 1 



On 23 October, 1399, Nicholas Gwyn, 

 on the death of Prior Denys, was instituted 

 to the priory of Andover by Bishop Wyke- 

 ham at the king's presentation. Nicholas was 

 an English Benedictine monk, and he held 

 the priory under the condition of paying the 

 apport of forty marks to Henry IV. and his 

 successors, so long as the war with France 

 continued, and in addition maintain sundry 

 English monks, chaplains and officials. At 

 the general dissolution of the alien priories in 

 1414, Gwyn was permitted to alienate the 

 priory to Winchester College. The college 

 however could not have gained any profit 

 from the transaction for some time, as the 

 possessions of Andover priory were held by 

 them subject to a yearly pension of forty-five 

 marks to the Crown, of twenty marks yearly 

 to Queen Joan, the widow of Henry IV., as 

 part of her dower, and of a life pension of 

 fifty-two marks to the ex-prior, Gwyn. 2 The 

 college tried its best to get released from the 

 pension to Queen Joan, but without effect ; 

 she did not die until 1437. Gwyn enjoyed 

 his pension for twenty years. 



This grant to the warden and scholars of 

 Wykeham's college was confirmed by Ed- 

 ward IV. in 1 46 1, 3 in consequence of an 

 attempt that was made that year to refound 

 the priory of Andover by a Bill in Parliament. 

 In 1535 the Winchester accounts returned 

 the Andover priory property at 31 a year, 

 but there were probably some arrears or 

 special deductions for that year, as in 1548 it 

 produced j8i. 4 



PRIORS OF ANDOVER 

 Berard of Naples, about 1264 

 John de St. John, 1304 

 Robert de Combor, 8 1305 

 Helias de Combor, 6 1307 

 Ralph de Combor, 1316 



1 Pat. 15 Edw. III. pt. 3, m. 12. 



* Wykeham's Register (Hants Record Society), 

 i. 221 ; ii. 615 ; Kirby's Annah of Winchester Col- 

 lege,?- 173- 



8 Pat. Edw. IV. pt. 7, m. 31. 



* Leach's Winchester College, 146-7. 



8 Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, pp. i, lob, 

 etc. 



* This and the following institutions are quoted 

 from a writ for return of presentations to alien 

 priories, 2 Hen. IV., given in Wykeham's register, 



Helias de Combor, 7 1320 

 John de Pomariis, 8 1331, 1341 

 Philip Maghe, 1341 

 Denys Canoun, 1363-99 

 Nicholas Gwyn, 1399-1414 



37. THE PRIORY OF HAMBLE 



The priory of St. Andrew, Hamble, was a 

 cell of the great Benedictine abbey of Tiron, 

 near Chartres, which was founded in 1109. 

 Tanner is wrong in describing Tiron as a 

 Cistercian abbey. The priory of Hamble 

 was placed on the rise or point of land at the 

 junction of the Hamble river with Southamp- 

 ton Water, and was hence usually termed 

 ' Hamble-en-le-rys ' or ' Hamblerice,' now 

 Hamble-le-Rice. William Giffard, Bishop 

 of Winchester, 1100-28, was the founder. 

 The original charter is not extant, but there 

 is a confirmation of Giffard's grant of Hamble 

 to the monks of St. Andrew among the 

 Winchester College muniments. 9 That 

 charter, from the witnesses, cannot be later 

 than 1140. 



A bull of Pope Innocent II., of the year 

 1132, addressed to his dear son William, 

 abbot of Tiron, confirming to him several 

 English endowments, specifies the church of 

 St. Andrew in England (ecclesiam Sancti 

 Andree de Anglia) with its appurtenances, 

 which other charters prove to be that of the 

 priory of St. Andrew at Hamble. An 

 undated charter, but apparently about 1135* 

 is from Emma, wife of Roger Alis, notifying 

 her gift to the monks of Tiron dwelling at 

 St. Andrew's, Hamble, of the lands and mea- 

 dows that she held at 'Auditon.' The charter 

 recites that she made this gift in chapter of 

 the monks of St. Andrew and placed it on 

 the altar in the presence of Prior Geoffrey. 

 About 1 142, Ascelina, wife of Guimond, gave 

 to God and the monks of Tiron at St. An- 

 drew's, in the presence of her brothers who 

 were dwelling there, the house and land per- 

 taining to it, which had been given her by 

 her brother Roaudus, who was then a monk. 

 In 1147 Pope Eugene III. confirmed to the 

 abbot and convent of Tiron, inter alia, the 

 church of Hamble, which was again con- 

 firmed about 1175 by Pope Alexander III. 

 On 23 August, 1179, an elaborate papal 



but in each case the actual episcopal register has 

 also been examined. 



7 This was probably a re-appointment. Priors 

 of alien houses were frequently moved from one 

 priory to another. 



8 Close, 5 Edw. III. pt. i, m. zd. 



9 Archttohga, \. 259. 



221 



