A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



Ralf de Silveston, 1 elected 1263, resigned 

 1275 



William de Esteneston, 2 elected 1275, re- 

 signed 1279-80 



Adam de Hanred, Henred or Heured, 3 

 1279-80, resigned 1284 



William de Brackley,* elected 1284-5, elec- 

 tion annulled 



Adam de Hanred, Henred or Heured s re- 

 appointed 1285, resigned 1287 



Richard de Silveston, 8 elected 1287, re- 

 signed same time 



John de Houghton, 7 elected 1287, resigned 

 1289 



Gilbert de Merse, 8 elected 1 289, resigned 

 same time 



Peter de Saldeston or Shalstone, 9 elected 

 1289, deposed 1294 



William de Brackley, 10 elected 1294, re- 

 signed 1316 



John de Westburg, 11 elected 1316, died 



1344 

 William de Skelton, 12 elected 1344, died 



'349 



William de Horwood, 13 elected 1349, re- 

 signed 1383 



John Pirye," elected 1383 



John Horwood, 15 elected 1396 



John Hals, 16 elected 1420, died 1444 



John Pinchbeck, 17 elected 1444, resigned 

 1468 



William Rogers, 18 elected 1468, resigned 

 1488 



Thomas Rowland, 19 elected 1488, resigned 

 the house 1494 ao 



Seal : A pointed oval seal 21 of the thir- 

 teenth century represents the Virgin seated 

 on a throne, a sceptre in her right hand, the 

 Holy Child on her left knee with cruciform 



1 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend. 

 Ibid, and Pat. 3. Edw. I. m. 19. 

 Ibid. 8 Edw. I. m. 21. 

 * Ibid. 13 Edw. I. m. 29. 

 6 Ibid. m. 23, and Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of 

 Sutton. 



6 Pat. 15 Edw. I. m. 9. 



7 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Sutton. 



Pat. 17 Edw. I. m. 18. Ibid. 



' Ibid. 23 Edw. I. m. 18. 



11 Ibid. 9 Edw. II. m. 15. 



12 Ibid. 18 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 15. 



13 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Gynwell, f. 24od. 

 i* Ibid. Inst. Bokyngham, i. f. 230. 



15 Ibid. ii. f. 184. 



18 Ibid. Inst. Fleming, f. 4gd. 



17 Ibid. Inst. Alnwick, f. 131. 



18 Ibid. Inst. Chadworth, f. 72d. 

 Ibid. Inst. Russell, f. 63. 



20 Browne Willis, Hist, of Mitred Abbies, ii. 27. 

 " Dugdale, Man. iv. 348. 



nimbus, lifting up the right hand in benedic- 

 tion and holding a book in the left. In the 

 upper part of the seal is the representation of 

 a church, in base a prior is kneeling in prayer. 

 Legend: s' COMMVNIS : SANCTE : MARIE: 

 D'LVFFEILT. 



2. THE PRIORY OF BRADWELL 



The priory of Bradwell, like that of Luffield, 

 has scarcely any history at all. It was founded 

 somewhere about the year 1155 by Meinfelin, 

 lord of Wolverton, 22 and the patronage of the 

 house continued in this family for a century 

 at least. 23 Its endowments were very small, 

 and it had scarcely any property outside this 

 county. 



As early as the reign of John the prior had 

 to contest with Alan of Etchingham the ad- 

 vowson of Padbury church, 24 and there were 

 several suits in the thirteenth century in 

 connection with the church of Chalfont St. 

 Giles, 25 which passed for some time out of the 

 hands of the monks. 28 This house appears to 

 have been among those which suffered most 

 from the effects of the Great Pestilence : the 

 prior, William of Loughton, died in 1 349, and 

 a dispensation granted in the same year to a 

 certain monk of illegitimate birth to hold any 

 office, even that of prior, 27 suggests that the 

 number of those eligible was very small at 

 that time. It is stated by Browne Willis that 

 the prior in 1361 was sequestered for causing 

 or allowing dilapidation of the conventual 

 buildings, 28 and there seems to have been a 

 vacancy for some years after this. 29 Not even 



M Browne Willis, History of Abbies, ii. 15. 



23 The name of Longville appears as patron in an 

 election of 1410 ; and Sir John Longville granted 

 the priory to Cardinal Wolsey in 1524, with the 

 proviso that a chaplain should be found to sing 

 mass for his soul in the priory church or else in the 

 new college at Oxford. L. and P. Henry VIII. iv. 



(i) 536. 



Feet of F. (Rec. Com.), 3 John, p. 200. 



Feet of F. 3 Hen. III. Nos. 2 and 6. The 

 prior gained the day, but granted the presentation 

 to William de Aubeney and his wife for life. There 

 was another suit in 1253, when John de Wellington 

 failed to establish a claim on the church (ibid. 37 

 Hen. III. no. 4). 



" In 1259, when it was granted to the Cathedral 

 at Lincoln. Lipscomb, History of Bucks, iii. 229. 



27 Cal. of Pap. Letters, iv. 175. 



28 Browne Willis, History of Abbies, \i. 15. When 

 -Browne Willis's references can be traced, they are 



usually found to be accurate in connection with his 

 own county. 



** Commissions were issued by the bishop in 1376 

 and 1381 to different persons to take charge of the 

 priory during vacancy. Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. 

 Bokyngham, 126 and 235. 



350 



