A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



him all the goods of the house.* ' My lady ' 

 had probably some assurance already from 

 Cromwell of preferment to another monas- 

 tery, and had few regrets in leaving Little 

 Marlow. 2 She was made Abbess of Mailing 

 three months later, and surrendered that 

 house also on 29 October, 1538, having pro- 

 fited not a little by the exchange, 3 for the 

 revenues of Little Marlow would only have 

 furnished her with a pension of 4 or 5, 

 while the Abbess of Mailing received an 

 annuity of 50. 



The original endowment of the house can- 

 not be exactly given, as no foundation charters 

 remain. It seems to have comprised some 

 land about the priory, and the churches of 

 Little Marlow and Hedsor. The latter was 

 lost at the beginning of the fifteenth century. 

 In 1291 the temporalities of the priory out- 

 side this county were only reckoned at is. per 

 annum. 4 The revenue of the house is given 

 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus as 23 $s. jd. s ; 

 the local commissioners a little later give the 

 same total. 8 The moveable goods of the 

 house at the dissolution were worth,i7 os. 2d., 

 the bells, lead, etc., 4 los. $d. 7 The minis- 

 ters' accounts amount to 22 i6s. iod. a The 

 revenues of this house were granted to the 

 new foundation at Bisham. 9 



PRIORESSES OF LITTLE MARLOW 



A., 11 died 1230 



Maud d'Anvers," elected 1230, occurs 

 1232 



Admiranda, 13 elected 1237, occurs 1247 



Cecily of Turville," occurs 1256, resigned 

 1258 



Christine de Whitemers, 15 elected 1258, 

 died 1264 



Felicia of Kimble, 16 elected 1264, resigned 

 1265 



Gunnora, 17 elected 1265, resigned 1271 



Margery of Waltham, 18 elected 1271 



Agnes of London, 19 resigned 1291 



Agnes of Clevedon, 20 elected 1291, resigned 

 1298 



Julian of Hampton, 21 elected 1298, re- 

 signed 1305 



Rose of Weston, 22 elected 1305 



Joan de Stonore, 23 elected 1338, died 



1350 



Margery Jeromide, 24 elected 1350 

 Susanna of Hampton, 25 occurs 1395 

 Elizabeth Broke, 28 resigned 1474 

 Isabel Savage, 27 elected 1474 

 Eleanor Kirby, 28 occurs 1492 

 Eleanor Bernard, 29 occurs 1516 

 Margaret Vernon, 30 last prioress, occurs 



1528 



HOUSE OF CLUNIAC MONKS 



7. THE PRIORY OF TICKFORD 

 OR NEWPORT PAGNEL 



The priory of Tickford was not the only 

 house of this order in Buckinghamshire ; but 

 it was the only one which survived the sup- 

 pression of alien priories and became indi- 

 genous, during the course of the Hundred 

 Years' War. It was certainly one of the ear- 

 liest monasteries founded in this county, if 

 not actually the first 10 ; but the date of foun- 

 dation cannot be exactly fixed. There is a 

 charter in existence, witnessed by Archbishop 



L. and P. Henry VIII. xii. 1188. 



2 We are not told what became of the other 

 ' pore madyn.' 



3 Ibid. xiii. (2) 717. 



4 Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.). The property 

 of the priory within the county is not mentioned 

 at all. 



* Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 250. 



6 Dugdale, Man. iv. 420. 



7 Ibid. o Ibid. 421-2. 



L. and P. Henry VIII. xii. (2) 1311. 



10 The priory of Ivinghoe may perhaps have been 

 a little earlier : but its date of foundation is as un- 

 certain as that of Tickford. 



Theobald of Canterbury, and therefore not 

 later than H54, 31 which recounts the gifts of 



" Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Hugh of Wells. 



" Ibid, and Feet of F. Bucks, 16 Hen. III. no. 

 25 (the surname is quite clear in the first entry ; 

 the Christian name in the second). 



13 Line. Epis. Reg. Roll of Grosstete and Feet 

 of F. 31 Hen. III. no. 3. 



14 Ibid. 42 Hen. III. no. 13. 



le Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend. 

 " Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. 



19 Ibid. Memo. Sutton, id. 



20 Ibid. Inst. Sutton, lojA ; and Memo. Sutton, 

 205. ai Ibid. Inst. Sutton, I22d. 



22 Ibid. Inst. Dalderby, I79d. 



23 Ibid. Memo. Burghersh, 330. 



24 Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 243. 



25 Dugdale, Man. iv. 419. 



28 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Rotherham, 97d. 



Ibid. 



28 Dugdale, Man. iv. 419. * J Ibid. 



80 Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Longland, 85. 



31 Round, Cal. of Doc. France, i. 444. It is a 

 charter of Robert de Chesney, bishop of Lincoln. 

 Reference was made to the same charter and others 

 of Fulk and Gervase Paynell and of Henry II. in 

 some inspeximus charters of Hubert archbishop of 

 Canterbury, dated 1224 (Harl. MS. 2188, f. 125). 



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