A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



September, 1397, concerning the true value 

 and extent of the priory of Ellingham by 

 virtue of a letter of the king to the escheator, 

 the jurors declared the clear annual value at 

 11 6s. 8d., and stated that Thomas Trewyn, 

 who had been appointed by letters patent 

 custodian of the priory, had secured the tithes 

 of corn and hay for that year about the feast 

 of St. Peter ad Vincula (i August). 1 



After the final dissolution of the alien 

 priories the rent reserved to the Crown from 

 Ellingham Priory was bestowed by Henry VI. 

 on Eton College, to which Edward IV., in 

 1462, added the fruits of the parish church of 

 Ellingham. 2 



PRIORS OF ELLINGHAM 

 Richard de Wauville, 3 1240 

 Michael, died 1292 

 Thomas dit le Petit, 4 1292 

 William Cancelet, 1298 

 Denys, instituted 1301 

 Geoffrey, 1305, 1311 

 John le Vyoun, 1318, 1327 

 Richard Pelleue, instituted 1328 

 Galicanus de Hamberga, instituted 1347 

 William de Albigneye, instituted 1361 



42. CARISBROOKE PRIORY 



The priory of Carisbrooke, which was situ- 

 ated on the high ground to the north-west of 

 the castle, was dedicated to the honour of the 

 Blessed Virgin. It was a cell of the Benedic- 

 tine abbey of Lire, and established to collect the 

 dues of the parent house in the Isle of Wight. 

 The church of Carisbrooke, and other prop- 

 erty, had been granted to the abbey of Lire, 

 probably by William Fitz Osborne, Earl of 

 Hereford. They were at all events owned 

 by that house while he held the lordship of 

 the Isle of Wight 6 (circa 1067-70). The 

 priory of Carisbrooke is said to have been 

 founded by Baldwin de Redvers about 1156. 



1 Add. MSS. 6165, p. 113. 



3 Pat. i Edw. IV. pt. 3, m. 24. 



3 Charter in archives of St. Lo. 



1 This and other episcopal institutions to Elling- 

 ham priory are taken from a return made by 

 Bishop Wykeham in 1401 of all the Winchester 

 institutions to alien priories recorded in the epis- 

 copal registers ; but in each case the original has 

 also been consulted. 



8 Transcript of the chartulary of Carisbrooke 

 priory in the possession of W. A. Lindsay, K.C., 

 F.S.A., Windsor Herald, p. i. Charter by Bald- 

 win de Redvers to Hildebrand, abbot of Lire, of 

 the church of Carisbrooke, to hold it as ever the 

 abbot held in the time of William Fitz Osborne 

 or Richard de Redvers father of the grantee. See 

 also V.C.H. Hants, i. 407-8. 



He gave to the abbey of Lire all the churches, 

 tithes, lands, rents and benefits that he held 

 throughout the island. Further grants by 

 his son, William de Vernun, were made 

 direct to the church of St. Mary, Carisbrooke, 

 and to the monks there serving God. Henry 

 II. 's confirmation charter to Lire Abbey par- 

 ticularizes their possessions throughout Eng- 

 land. The abbey then held in Hampshire 

 the churches of Clatford and St. John's, 

 Southampton, and in the Isle of Wight the 

 churches of Carisbrooke, Arreton, Freshwater, 

 Godshill, Whippingham, Newtown and New- 

 church. 6 Godfrey, Bishop of Winchester 

 (1189-1205), empowered the abbot to con- 

 vert the church of Carisbrooke and chapel 

 adjoining it ad usus suos proprios? Several 

 churches were afterwards granted to the mon- 

 astery by various persons. 



Edward I., in 1285, licensed the prior and 

 monks of Carisbrooke to hold a road going 

 through their priory from the south gate to 

 the north gate, which they closed to keep 

 out persons wandering there day and night, 

 and in exchange for which they made 

 another road, 40 feet long, to the west of 

 the said priory, with the assent of Isabel de 

 Fortibus, lady of the Isle of Wight. 8 



Simple protection was granted by the 

 Crown for a year in 1290, and again for 

 a like period in 1292, both to the abbot of 

 Lire staying in Normandy, and for the prior 

 and monks of Carisbrooke, 9 and in 1298 

 Edward I. recognized the right which Isabel 

 de Fortibus had granted to the monastery of 

 Lire of the custody of the temporalities dur- 

 ing a vacancy in the priory. 10 



A survey of alien priories of the year 1295 

 shows that the priory had granges at Sheet, 

 Chale and Northwood. The prior had a 

 palfrey worth 4. 135. od., a pack-horse worth 

 2OJ., and a white horse. The expenses of 

 the prior and five monks in removing from 

 the island to some place remote from the 

 coast by royal command amounted to 4.5. ^d. 

 When taken into the hands of the Crown 

 by reason of the war, there were found, 

 besides grain, 1 1 plough horses, 2 draught 

 horses, a two-year-old colt, a mule, 51 oxen, 

 i bull, 22 cows, 8 heifers, 15 calves, 3 sheep, 

 1 06 lambs, i boar, 4 sows, 42 pigs, 23 young 

 pigs, 7 sides of bacon, 2 poids of cheese and 

 3 sacks of wool. 11 



6 Dugdale's Monasttcon, vi. 10401. 



7 Transcript of Carisbrooke chartulary. 



8 Pat. 13 Edw. I. m. i. 



9 Ibid. 18 Edw. I. m. 16 ; 20 Edw. I. m. 9. 



10 Transcript of chartulary of Carisbrooke, p. 20. 



11 Stone's Arch. Antiq. 1. W. ii. 197. 



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