A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



sion, to pray daily for the souls of John Smyth 

 (the deceased) and others, as well as for the 

 brethren and sisters of the gild, and to do other 

 works of piety. 1 



The college received various small bequests 

 by wills of Bury townsmen. William Hony- 

 born, of Bury, dyer, in 1493, k^ I2 ^- ' to tne 

 gilde of the holy name of Jesu, holden at the 

 college.' John Coote, by will of 1502, left 

 3*. \d. to the gild of St. Nicholas held in the 

 college, and also provided that 'at my thyrty day 

 the priests of the colage to have a dyner among 

 themseffes in the colage, after the discression of 

 myne executors and supervisor.' Edmund Lee 

 of Bury, esquire, in 1535, left 6;. 8d. 'to the 

 company of the Jesus College in Bury, towards 

 their stoke for sake fyshe and lynge." Thomas 

 Neche, master of the college, was one of the 

 witnesses of this will. 2 



This college was suppressed by Edward VI. 

 The Chantry and College Commissioners of 

 2 Edward VI made the following report of this 

 establishment : 



The messuage called the Colledge wythe vj small 

 tenements in Burye. In feoft'amente by oone William 

 Coote clerke to contynnewe for ever to the intente 

 that in the seid Capytall Messuage nowe called the 

 Colledge, all the priestes of the parysshe churches of 

 Seynte Jaymes and Seynte Maryes in Bury should 

 contynually kepe & have their lodgings. And in iiij 

 of the seide small tenementes iiij poore mene should 

 have other dwellynges free for ever. And thother 

 two tenementes to be letten yearly, and with the 

 money that shoulde growe of the farme, the seid vj 

 houses shoulde mayntayne the seid vj houses in 

 reparation. The whiche capytall messuage and ij 

 tenements bene at this daye and at all tymes sythe 

 decayse commytted to thuse aforeseide and noother. 

 And oone Thomas Neche clerke of thage of Ixiii yeres 

 having cs. yerely in the name of a pencian owte of the 

 parsonage of Founcham All Seyntes, and hath the 

 parsonage of Trayton of the close yerely valew of vj //', 

 and xlj of a prebente in Staffordshyre. A manne 

 bcinge indifferently welle learned.' 



The college is described as being distant two 

 furlongs from the parish church, and of the 

 annual value of 40*. The goods and household 

 stuff were valued at 77*. 2^., and a bell weighing 

 2O Ib. at 3*. ifd. 



Separate entry is made of a chantry endow- 

 ment of j6 8*. 4<f. yearly value, for the master 

 or president of the college to say mass for the 

 soul of William Coote in the parish church of 

 St. Mary's, which was also held by Thomas 

 Neche. 



Also of another chantry founded by John 

 Smyth for a chaplain of the college to say mass 

 in St. Mary's Church, of the value of 12. The 

 chantry priest was John Stacye, and the surplus 

 was to be used for the repairs of the college. 3 



1 Pat. 21 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 5. 



Tymms, Bury Wills, 81, 92, 125, 127. 



1 Chant. Cert. 45, No. 44. 



65. THE COLLEGE OF DENSTON 



Edward IV, on i March, 1475, licensed Sir 

 John Howard, knight, and John Broughton the 

 younger, esquire, to found a perpetual chantry 

 or college of a warden and society of chaplains 

 to celebrate divine service daily at Denston, and 

 to do other works of piety according to their 

 ordinance, to be called ' Denston Chauntry.* 

 They were also licensed to grant in mortmain 

 to the warden and society possessions not held in 

 chief, to the value of ,40 yearly. 4 



It was endowed with the manor of Beau- 

 monde in Denston parish, and with lands in 

 Lilsey, Monks Eleigh, Groton, and Badley 

 Parva. 8 



The Valor of 1535 mentions Peter Calcott 

 as then master of the college of Denston, of the 

 foundation of John Denston. The rectory of 

 Denston pertained to the college, but was then 

 in the hands of the king, and its value is not 

 given. The temporalities of the college were 

 valued at 25 9*. 2^d., but various outgoings,, 

 including 40;. given to the poor on the anni- 

 versary of John Denston brought down the clear 

 annual value to 22 8x. Jcl* 



In 1548 Denston is entered as a small college- 

 consisting of a warden or master and two priests 

 or co-brethren. Richard Baldry, the master,, 

 had a stipend of 10 and the two priests,. 

 Richard Marshall and Robert Fisher, 5 each. 

 They served the parish church and had a 

 mansion house adjoining. The gross income 

 was there set down as 27 9;. i\d. and the net 

 income as ^22 ijs. l^d. 7 After suppression the 

 college property was assigned in 1548 to Thomas 

 and John Smith. 8 



66. THE CARDINAL'S COLLEGE, 

 IPSWICH 



A college of secular canons at Ipswich to 

 which was attached a school was one of the two 

 considerable educational schemes projected by 

 Cardinal Wolsey. The college at Oxford came 

 eventually to a successful issue, but the college 

 at Ipswich perished ere it had come to maturity. 



This college was erected on the site of the 

 dissolved priory of St. Peter and St. Paul. On 

 14 May, 1528, the king confirmed the bull of 

 Pope Clement for the suppression of this monas- 

 tery and the founding of the college at Ipswich.*' 

 To help to find funds for this considerable pro- 

 ject, the pope also sanctioned the appropriation 

 to it of the Ipswich churches of St. Peter, St. 



4 Pat. 14 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 5. 

 6 Dugdale, Man. vi, 1468. 



6 Valor Ecd. (Rec. Com.), iii, 471. 



7 Chant. Cert. 45, No. 25. 



8 Prof. Arch. Inst. vi, 46. 



9 Rymer, Foedera, xiv, 241. 



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