A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



Henry called Medicus, 1 elected 1272 

 William of Sherringham, 2 died 1309 

 John of Thame, 3 elected 1309 

 Richard of Crendon,* occurs from 1331 to 



1357 

 John of Winchendon, 5 occurs 1367 and 



1376 



John of Chearsley," occurs 1379, died 1389 

 Nicholas Amcotes, 7 occurs 1390 and 1395 

 Thomas, 8 occurs 1397 

 William, 9 occurs 1400 

 Nicholas Redding, 10 occurs 1447 

 William Stanton, 11 occurs 1457 till 1479 

 Peter Caversham, 12 died 1503 

 Richard Peterton, 13 elected 1503, died 1513 

 John Marston, 14 elected 1513, resigned 1528 

 Robert Brice, 16 elected 1528, died 1529 

 Richard Ridge, 16 last abbot, elected 1529 



Pointed oval seal of the twelfth century, 

 taken from cast at the British Museum, 1 're- 

 presents the Blessed Virgin with crown, seated 

 on a carved throne, the Holy Child on her 

 left knee, in her right hand a flower. +SIGIL- 



LVM : SANCTE : MARIE : DE : NVTLE. 



A round seal of the fifteenth century taken 

 from a cast, 18 represents three Gothic niches, 

 with canopies crocketed and pinnacled, the 

 Blessed Virgin standing with nimbus and 

 crown, the Holy Child with nimbus on her 

 right arm, in her left hand a ball or orb, two 

 saints on either side, the one on the left with 

 nimbus holding a plaque, the other on the 

 right with nimbus and mitre holds apparently 

 a wheel. On tabernacle work at each side a 

 shield of arms : that on the left, quartering 

 I, 4, France (modern), 2, 3, England, that on 

 the right uncertain. In base, under a square- 



1 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend. 

 1 Ibid. Inst. Dalderby, 182. 



3 Ibid. 



4 Close, 5 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 6 ; Cat. of Pap. 

 Letters, iii. 448. 



5 Dugdale, Man. vi. 278. 



6 Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Bokyngham, i8id ; 

 Dugdale, Man. vi. 278. 



' Dugdale, Man. vi. 278. 

 8 Rymer, Fcedera, ii. 965. 

 8 Dugdale, Man. vi. 278. Ibid. 



11 Ibid, and Sloane MS. 747, f. 3gd (1470 and 

 1472). 



12 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Smith, 372. 



13 Ibid. i* Ibid. 39ld. 

 16 Ibid. Inst. Longland, I93d. 



L. and P. Henry VIII. iv. 5828. 



' B. M. Seals, lix. 89. See Dugdale, Mow. vi. 277. 



B. M. Seals, lix. 93. This cast has been taken 

 from the seal attached to the Deed of Supremacy 

 (No. 96) now in ^he Record Office. The original 

 is red and of a very fine impression, but much 

 chipped. 



headed arch, a shield of arms : a lion ram- 

 pant. Legend : SIGILLUM c . . . MONAST' 



BE MARIE ET SCl' IQHANIS' BAPTISTE DE NOTTELE. 



Another seal of the fifteenth century, the 

 cast of which has been taken from an imper- 

 fect impression, 19 represents the Blessed Vir- 

 gin standing on a corbel in a niche holding 

 the Holy Child on her right arm, in her left 

 hand a sceptre fleur-de-lize. Legend : . . . 



BEATE MA. . . . 



12. THE PRIORY OF CHETWODE 



The priory of Chetwode was founded in the 

 year 1245 by Ralf de Norwich. 20 A licence 

 was granted by Bishop Grosstete for its 

 foundation, and a canon was sent from Thur- 

 garton in Nottinghamshire to be the first 

 prior. 21 The endowment was a small one, and 

 it seems probable that there were never more 

 than three or four canons. King Henry III. 

 granted to the priory a carucate of land for 

 the service of the hermitage or chapel of St. 

 Werburga in the forest of Brill, and $os. be- 

 sides for the service of the royal chapel when 

 he kept his court at Brill 22 ; the canons also 

 served the churches of Chetwode and Barton 

 Hartshorn. 23 



During the first year of the existence of the 

 priory there was a dispute with the founder 

 concerning the lands which formed the en- 

 dowment. 24 A few years later the king's gift 

 lost almost all its value because the deer in the 

 royal forest could not be kept out of the 

 canons' cornfields ; but Henry III., with that 

 generosity which he always displayed towards 

 the religious, made them a further grant, and 

 allowed them to enclose their ploughlands. 25 

 This right was disputed in 1313 by a certain 

 Roger Pymme and other men of the neigh- 

 bourhood, who claimed part of the land as 

 common, broke down the enclosure, and fed 

 their beasts on the grass there. The prior 

 complained that he had suffered losses 

 amounting to 40^. in value : but it is not 

 known whether he recovered anything at this 

 time. 26 



The house was reckoned from the first 

 among royal foundations, and the names of all 

 its priors may be found on the Patent Rolls. 

 We may gather from the record of the prior's 

 death in 1349, that the Great Pestilence 



19 B. M. Seals, lix. 94. 



20 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Grosstite. 



21 Ibid. ; and Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i. 37. 

 32 Pat. 40 Hen. III. m. 15. 



23 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Dalderby, 177. 

 Feet of F. 30 Hen. III. No. 9. 



25 Pat. 40 Hen. III. m. 15. 



26 Coram Rege R. 6 Edw. II. n. 66. 



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