A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



In 1385 the annual value was returned at 

 45.* On 27 March, 1395, orders were 

 conferred in the priory church or chapel on 

 four sub-deacons, three deacons, and four 

 priests by Simon, Bishop of Achonry, acting 

 as suffragan of Winchester.* 



The prior, temp. Richard II. petitioned the 

 king and council for relief in consequence of 

 the devastation caused to their property by 

 the enemy from both France and Spain. 3 



The priory was held by the Crown during 

 the wars with France in the reigns of Edward 



1 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. 213. 



3 Ibid. f. 406. 



3 Stone's Arch. Antiq. I. W. ii. 198. 



I. and III., and was suppressed with other 

 alien houses in 1414, and was bestowed by 

 the Crown on the Nuns Minoresses without 

 Aldgate. In 1 528 the prioress, Dame Dorothy 

 Comberford, granted a thirty-three years' lease 

 of Appledurcombe to Sir James Worsley. 4 



PRIORS OF APPLEDURCOMBE 5 



Hugh, in the time of Stephen 

 Lawrence Bertram, 1331 

 Peter de Mouster, 1385 

 Thomas atte Tounesende, 1403 



* Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, f. 406. 



5 Prior Stephen de Collevilla in an undated 

 charter mentions as a former prior Peter de 

 Mymbrantot. 



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