A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



1375, Inguerand appeared before the bishop at 

 Waltham, bringing a letter from the prior and 

 convent of Cerisy, sealed with green wax and 

 verified by Master Stephen de Rippia, notary 

 public, praying that their choice might be con- 

 firmed. On 28 August the bishop issued his 

 mandate to the official of the Archdeacon of 

 Winchester, ordering him to proceed to the 

 priory of Sherborne on 30 August, and there 

 to make proclamation that if any wished to 

 object to the form of the election of Inguerand 

 or to him personally, they were to appear be- 

 fore the commissary and before Giles and Peter, 

 monks of Sherborne and their fellows, and 

 John Atte More, steward of the house, and 

 John the porter, on a day and time named. 

 The due setting forth of this proclamation was 

 testified to the bishop under the seal of the 

 rural dean of Basingstoke who was present. 

 Any objectors were cited to appear on the 

 Wednesday after the feast of the Exaltation of 

 the Holy Cross in the chapel of the Castle of 

 Farnham. Subsequently, on 26 September, 

 the bishop, at his manor at Southwark, com- 

 missioned Master William Lozinge, canon of 

 Salisbury, his chancellor, to sit in the church of 

 St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, and there 

 to give his judgment. The chancellor pro- 

 nounced the election null and void by reason 

 of various defects of procedure and form, but 

 admitted Inguerand on account of his many 

 virtues (as stated elaborately in the usual form), 

 in exercise of a power of provision delegated 

 by the bishop. 1 



In May, 1370, the bishop commissioned 

 his official to correct a delinquent monk of 

 Sherborne, William le Valeys, for abusive 

 words to his prior and brother monks and for 

 general disobedience to the rule. 3 



In April, 1380, a grant was made to Ingue- 

 rand, the prior, of the custody, without rent, 

 of the priory of Sherborne, with the issues, 

 from the death of William, the late prior (in 

 the king's hands on account of the French war), 

 by mainprize of John Atte More and Roger 

 Savage as granted to William in 1369." Three 

 years later, certain letters patent which had 

 been granted to one John Slegh, as custodian 

 of Sherborne priory, were revoked in favour of 

 Prior Inguerand, as neither John, after notice 

 from the sheriff", nor the king's attorney had 

 shown cause against the revocation. 4 Never- 

 theless, as is shown by frequent entries about 

 this date on the Patent Rolls, the king pre- 



1 JVykebam'i Renters (Hants Record Society), 

 i. 63-66. 



1 Ibid. iii. f. 34!). 



3 Pat. 3 Ric. II. pt. 3, m. 16. 



4 Ibid. 6 Rich. II. pt. 3, m. lo. 



sented to various benefices pertaining to the 

 priory, as holder of the temporalities during the 

 war. 



Among the official instruments in Wyke- 

 ham's registers is a form, undated, of commis- 

 sion to take an inventory of the goods of 

 Sherborne, when it was thought that Prior 

 Inguerand was dying. His condition is there- 

 in stated to be so serious as to render him 

 quite incapable of attending to the affairs of 

 his house, and that there was hardly any 

 hope of his recovery. It was also alleged 

 that in the event of his death the priory, 

 in which there were but few monks, 

 would be in sore straits in both sacred and 

 secular affairs. 8 Inguerand died early in 

 1397, and on 2 February of that year, the 

 bishop admitted as prior Walter Marshall of 

 Bristol, a Benedictine monk. The form of 

 admission recites that the priory of Sherborne, 

 under the rule of an alien priory, was vacant 

 by the death of Inguerand, and that in ac- 

 cordance with the legislation of i Richard II., 

 during the war with France, the bishop 

 entrusted Walter with the rule and govern- 

 ance of the priory (on the nomination of 

 Sir Thomas de Poynings, Lord St. John), 

 on condition of his supplying mattins, mass, 

 and the other desired offices according to 

 ancient use, and of his keeping the convent- 

 ual church and house and buildings in proper 

 repair, and checking all waste. 8 



In the same year there was another vacancy, 

 apparently through the resignation of Walter 

 Marshall. On 3 October, 1397, Bishop 

 Wykeham having first formerly annulled his 

 election made by the alien abbey, as he was 

 willing to act graciously, accepted Guilliaume 

 Trenchefan, monk of St. Vigor, as prior of 

 Sherborne, with the personal assent of Sir 

 Thomas Poynings. After the general sup- 

 pression of the alien houses, the priory of Monk 

 Sherborne was given by Edward IV. to the 

 Hospital of St. Julian, or God's House, South- 

 ampton. God's House had, however, been 

 given by Edward III. to Queen's College, and 

 hence the endowments and muniments of this 

 priory were transferred to that college, which 

 college still holds them. 



PRIORS OF MONK SHERBORNE 



William, early thirteenth century 

 Richard de Bourdigny, 1273 

 Thomas, 7 about 1329 

 Robert Corbet, 1347-9 



5 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. 29 ib. 



8 Ibid. i. f. 266. 



T Close, 3 Edw. III. m. 8d. 



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