RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Walter, 1263 1 



Robert, I268 2 



Richard de Yaxley, 1303* 



Nicholas de Wittelsham, 1307* 



Richard de Hoxne, 1309 * 



William de Gey tone, 131 1 6 



Alexander de Stratford, 1332' 



Matthew de Pakenham, 1334 8 



Alexander de Drenkiston, 1353' 



John Baxter, resigned 1374 10 



William de Haleworth, 1374 n 



William Randeworth, 14 io 18 



William Poley, 1444" 



Thomas Frankingham, 1483 14 



Robert Beeches, 1497 16 



Edmund Lydefield (bishop of Chalcedon), 



1504" 



Robert Brommer, 1508" 

 William Woodbridge, 1509 18 

 Augustine Rivers, i$O() 19 

 Thomas Manning alias Sudbury, suffragan 



bishop of Ipswich, 1528 



The pointed oval fourteenth-century seal of 

 this house bears the Blessed Virgin seated be- 

 neath an elaborately carved niche with sceptre 

 in right hand, having birds billing in the foliage 

 at the top, and with the Holy Child on the left 

 knee. Outside the niche, on each side, is a palm 

 branch. Under an arch in the base is the kneel- 

 ing figure of a prior. Legend : 



20 



: S . C E. ECCE. SC . MARIE. DE. BUTTELE. 



19. THE PRIORY OF CHIPLEY 



Neither the date of the foundation nor the 

 name of the founder of this small priory of 

 Austin canons, dedicated to the honour of the 

 Blessed Virgin, is known. 



The earliest known records pertaining to it 

 are of the year 1235, relative to lands at Clopton 

 and Denardiston. 21 



The taxation roll of 1291 gives diverse 

 entries of its small possessions, which then 



1 Proc. Stiff". Arch. Intl. iv, 412, taken from a char- 

 tulary in private hands. 

 ' Ibid. 



3 Norw. Epis. Reg. i, 12. This and the following 

 are dates of election. 



4 Ibid. 25. " Ibid, i, 33. 6 Ibid, i, 46. 



7 Ibid, ii, 51. ' Ibid, ii, 58. ' Ibid, iv, 48. 

 10 Ibid, vi, 36. " Ibid. " Ibid, vii, 27. 



"Ibid, x, 55. " Ibid, xii, 99. 



15 Add. MS. 19000, fol. 216. 



16 Tanner, Norw. MSS. 



17 L. and P. Hen. fill, i, 233 ; Proc. Stiff. Arch. 

 Inst. iv, 413. This prior committed suicide at 

 Ipswich. 



18 L. and P. Hen. Fill, ii, 325, 746. Royal assent 

 in July, but cancelled by the bishop in December. 



19 Norw. Epis. Reg. xiv, 90. 

 " B.M. Cast, Ixxi, 99. 



" Feet of F. Suff. 19 Hen III, Nos. 83, 175 



reached a total annual income of 4 19*. 4^. ; 

 including 2OJ. of spiritualities out of Posling- 

 ford church, 3 4*. of lands, meadows, and 

 pasture at Stoke, and 1 51. \d. of smaller tempor- 

 alities at Stansfield, Poslingford, and Gelham 

 Parva (Essex). 22 



Licence was granted in 1343 to Roger Nor- 

 maund to alienate to this priory the manor of 

 Chipley, knights' fees and the advowson of the 

 church excepted, to find two canons to celebrate 

 daily in the priory church for the souls of Roger 

 and Joan his wife, when they shall depart this 

 life, and for his ancestors and heirs. 23 Roger 

 Normaund or Norman died seised of the advow- 

 son or patronage of this priory in I363- 24 From 

 this it seems probable that an ancestor of 

 Norman was the founder. 



The buildings being in a ruinous condition, 

 and the income not exceeding jio, the Bishop 

 of Norwich consented in 1455 to the annexing 

 of this little priory to the collegiate church of 

 Stoke-next-Clare, who had become its patrons. 26 



When the Valor of 1535 was drawn up the 

 college of Stoke held temporalities in Chipley to 

 the annual value of 14 131. 4^. ; and there was 

 also a small pension accruing from the church 

 of Poslingford and the chapel of Chipley. 26 



PRIORS OF CHIPLEY 



John de Cavendish, died I333 27 



Richard de Norwich, elected 



David de Thornham, elected 



Reginald de Rushworth, elected I35O 30 



Thomas de Hippesworth, resigned 1370 31 



Richard Man, elected I37O 32 



Thomas Hepe worth, elected 1395 33 



The pointed oval thirteenth-century seal of 

 this priory bears the Blessed Virgin, half length, 

 with the Holy Child on the left arm ; in base, 

 under a trefoiled arch is the kneeling prior. 

 Legend : 



s' : PRIORIS : DE : CHIPPELEIA M 



20. THE PRIORY OF DODNASH 



Information respecting the small Austin priory 

 of the Blessed Virgin at Dodnash is somewhat 

 scanty. Neither the time of the foundation nor 

 the name of the founder is known, but it was, 



!> Pope NifA. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 17, 121, 12 1, 132. 



13 Pat. 17 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 15. 



" Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, No. 7. 



16 Norw. Epis. Reg. xi, 36. 



* Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 469-70. 



" Norw. Epis. Reg. ii, 62. 



18 Ibid. 89 Ibid, iv, 120 30 Ibid, iv, 129. 



11 Ibid, vi, 3. " Ibid. M Ibid, vi, 210. 



11 B.M. Cast, Ixxi, 102. 



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