RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



the second survey 19 14^. Bd. ; bells, lead, 

 etc., were worth 10 i6s. 8^.' The Minis- 

 ter's Accounts of the same year give a total of 

 only 15 "js. iod. 2 



PRIORS OF SNELSHALL 



William, 3 occurs 1219 



Hugh,* occurs 1226 



Nicholas, 8 occurs 1232 



John, 6 occurs 1240 



Hugh of Dunstable, 7 elected 1251, resigned 



1272 



Warin, 8 elected 1272 

 Nicholas of Hanslope, 9 resigned 1300 

 Richard of Eye, 10 elected 1300, resigned 



1302 

 Nicholas of Hanslope " re-appointed 1302, 



died 1319 



John of Conesgrave, 12 elected 1319 

 Hugh of Leckhampstead, 13 elected 1334, 



died 1357 



Richard de Nibbeley (or de Nuble), 



elected 1357, died 1367 

 Roger of Oving, 18 elected 1367, died 1393 

 John Middleton, 19 elected 1393 

 Simon London, 2 " resigned 1431 

 William Whaddon, 21 elected 1431 

 Hugh Fuller," occurs 1461 

 John Medburn, 23 occurs 1478 

 John Wells, 24 occurs 1488, resigned 1492 

 Thomas Broke, 25 elected 1492, resigned 



IS03 

 Hugh Brecknock, 28 elected 1503, died 



1529 

 William Maltby, 27 last prior, elected 1529 



A seal of this priory is attached to the Ac- 

 knowledgment of Supremacy (No. 105). It is 

 in red wax and represents a prior standing 

 with a staff in his right hand and an open book 

 in his left. Legend : s. PRIORIS ET c . . . 



DE SNELLESHALL. 



HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE NUNS 



4. THE PRIORY OF IVINGHOE 



The date of the foundation of this priory 

 is very uncertain, but it seems on the whole 

 most probable that it was in existence before 

 Ankerwyke or Little Marlow. It was most 

 commonly called the priory of St. Margaret's 

 in the Wood. Leland gives the tradition that 

 it was founded by Henry de Blois, Bishop of 

 Winchester, about the year 1160: but a 

 charter of St. Thomas of Canterbury given 

 in Dugdale confirms the grants of William, 

 Bishop of Winchester, who died in 1129, con- 

 firmed by Henry de Blois his successor." The 

 manor of Ivinghoe had for a long time been 

 part of the endowment of the see of Win- 

 chester, even before the Conquest. 18 



The benefactors of the priory were not 

 numerous, either in its earlier or later days : l6 



1 Dugdale, Man. iv. 234, from Browne Willis. 



2 Ibid. 



3 jinn. Man. (Rolls Ser.), iii. 



4 Dugdale, M on. iv. 233. e Ibid. 

 Feet of F. Bucks, 14 Henry III. 4. 



7 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Grosstete. 

 s Ibid. 



Ibid. Memo. Dalderby, 12. 

 ' Ibid. Inst. Dalderby, 175. 

 " Ibid. 176. ll Ibid. igzd. 



3 Ibid. Memo. Burghersh, z8id. A disputed 

 election. 



i Dugdale, Man. iv. 268. 

 See Domesday translation. 

 a The name of Miles Neirenuit is the only one 

 well known in the neighbourhood during the thir- 

 teenth century. 



in the thirteenth century King Henry III. 

 granted to the nuns the church of Merrow in 

 Surrey, 28 with other smaller gifts, such as an 

 annual fair on the feast of St. Margaret, and 

 ten acres of assart in Hemel Hempstead. 28 

 There are several allusions in the episcopal 

 registers to the poverty of this house, and in 

 1277 the prioress seems to have been thankful 

 to be acquitted even of so small a fine as two 

 marks, which she had incurred by privately 

 settling a dispute which ought to have come 

 before the king's justices. 30 



The priory was dissolved under the first 

 Act of Suppression, and contained at that 

 time only five nuns, of whom three were 

 novices. The prioress, Margery Hardwick, 

 received a pension of ^.. 31 



Bishop Dalderby granted indulgences on 

 three different occasions 32 to those who should 



' Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Gynwell, 2643. 



8 Ibid. Inst. Bokyngham, i. 414. 



8 Ibid. ii. 408. 



Ibid. Inst. Gray, 45. 21 Ibid. 



22 Dugdale, Man. iv. 233. " Ibid. 



24 Ibid. 234, and Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Russell, 



I26d. 



2 Ibid. 



Ibid. Inst. Smith, 371. 



Ibid. Inst. Longland, iqjd. 



2 " Cal. of Chart. R.,\. 1 86 (17 Hen. III. m. 2). 



29 Ibid. i. 27 (11 Hen. III. pt. I, m. 13). 



><> Close, 5 Edw. I. m. 5. 



si Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. 232, f. 2od. 



32 Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Dalderby, 44, 58d, 

 368d (1301, 1303 and 1318). 



353 



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