RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



alien priory of Andwell, before its custody was 

 committed, at a certain yearly farm, to Thomas 

 de Thorpe. 1 



During the latter part of the reign of 

 Richard II. the parent monasteries of these 

 alien houses were permitted to sell them to 

 other religious houses, or to particular persons 

 who desired to use them for founding chantries, 

 hospitals or other works of charity. 3 Bishop 

 Wykeham availed himself of this privilege by 

 purchasing Andwell from the abbey of Tiron, 

 and paying Thomas Thorpe 20 for his 

 interest therein. The bishop bestowed the 

 priory and its lands on his newly founded 

 college at Winchester, to which it still 

 belongs. 



Andwell at the time of its purchase was 

 valued at 10 los. a year. The other Hamp- 

 shire purchases made by Wykeham from the 

 abbey of Tiron were Hamble, valued at 

 6s. ; St. Cross, Isle of Wight, valued at 

 and Worldham Chapel, valued at ji. 

 Roughly speaking, he obtained ,30 a year 

 for about ,380, rather more than twelve 

 years' purchase. 3 



Wykeham no sooner secured the Andwell 

 property than he saw to its repair. In a list 

 of extraordinary expenses incurred by the 

 college from the opening day in 1393 down 

 to 1401, occurs the then very large sum of 

 538 41. for the repairs of manors, rectories 

 and chancels that had been secured from 

 various alien priories. The items are not 

 separated, but the repairs included the grange 

 and chamber at Andwell. 4 



At Epiphanytide, 1410, the warden kept 

 open house for two days to a number of 

 country gentlemen. The manor of Andwell 

 contributed a heronshaw towards the feasting ; 

 the man who brought it to Winchester, a 

 distance of twenty-two miles, received is. for 

 his pains. 5 



PRIORS OF ANDWELL 



Hugh 8 



Walter Britell 



William de Pulchra Quercu 



Gervase, 1210, 1216' 



Nicholas, time of Henry III. 8 



1 Pat. 2 Rich. II. pt. i, m. id. 

 1 Rymer's Fan/era, vii. 697. 

 3 Leach's Winchester Cottege, p. 145. 

 * Kirby's Annals of Winchester, pp. 1501. 

 s Ibid. p. 158. 



8 This and the two following names are taken 

 from the Winchester College muniments. 



7 Ancient Deeds, P.R.O., A. 241. 



8 This and the following names are taken from 

 the Winchester College muniments. 



Robert, time of Edward I. 



Richard Edward II. 



Ralph 



Godfrey de Insula, time of Edward III. 



Richard de Beaumont 



James Pasquier 



39. THE PRIORY OF ST. CROSS, 

 ISLE OF WIGHT 



The small priory of the Holy Cross at the 

 north end of the town of Newport, Isle of 

 Wight, was a cell of the Benedictine abbey 

 of Tiron. It was founded about 1120. On 

 30 May, 1147, a b u U f PP e Eugenius III. 

 confirmed the church of the Holy Cross in 

 the Isle of Wight to the abbey of Tiron, and 

 again a bull of about the time of Pope Alex- 

 ander III. confirmed to Stephen, abbot of 

 Tiron, inter alia, the church of the Holy 

 Cross of the Isle in the diocese of Win- 

 chester. 9 



A survey of alien priories of the year 1295 

 names, among the possessions of St. Cross, a 

 horse for the prior, 5 heifers, a two-year-old 

 colt and filly, 2 bulls, 10 oxen, 6 cows, 6 

 bugles, 2 calves, i boar, 5 sows, 4 pigs and 

 14 young pigs. 10 



In 1391 the annual values of the tempor- 

 alities of this priory were assessed at .10 3;. Sd. 

 With other alien houses it was seized in time 

 of war with France and administered by the 

 Crown. 11 



In May 1369 the priory's income was 

 sequestrated by Bishop Wykeham in conse- 

 quence of the dilapidated condition of the 

 buildings. 12 



On 2O April, 1390, licence was granted 

 by the Crown to the abbot and convent of 

 Tiron to alienate the advowson and patronage 

 of the church or chapel of St. Cross in the 

 Isle of Wight, called the priory of St. Cross, 

 and all lands and tenements of the said con- 

 vent to the warden and scholars of Winchester 

 College. The conveyance to the college is 

 dated i September, 1391. 



Soon after the priory came into the hands 

 of the college a considerable sum was spent 

 on the repairs of the hall, the chamber, and 

 the chapel of St. Cross and on a new water- 

 wheel. 13 



' Round's Cal. of French Documents, i. 358. 



10 Stone's Arch. Antiq. of I. W. ii. 197. 



11 Cal. of the Patent Rolls, passim Edw. I. and 

 III. 



13 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. I zb. 



13 Kirby's Annals of Winchester College, 150-1. 



