RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



visited this house as well as most of its neigh- 

 bours during that year. Beyond this and the 

 few facts mentioned above, it has no history 

 at all. In 1460 it had become too poor even 

 to maintain canons enough to serve the appro- 

 priate churches, and was annexed with the 

 king's consent to Nutley Abbey. 1 



No visitations of this priory are recorded 

 at Lincoln. 



Its original endowment was merely the 

 demesne land at Chetwode, the king's gift 

 above mentioned, and the churches of Chet- 

 wode and Barton Hartshorn. 3 In 1284 the 

 prior held 8J virgates at Chetwode with the 

 site of the priory, of Robert de Chetwode. 3 

 There is no mention of the house in the Tax- 

 atio. 



PRIORS OF CHETWODE 



Thomas of Hanworth, 4 first prior, elected 

 1245, resigned 1261 



John of Woodstock, 6 elected 1261, re- 

 signed 1270 



William of Dadington, 6 elected 1270 



William of Brickies worth, 7 resigned 1304 



Roger of Lynham, 8 elected 1304, resigned 



1317 

 John of Warmington, 9 elected 1317, died 



1328 

 Robert of Brackley, 1 ' elected 1328, died 



1337 

 William of Halton,' 1 elected 1337, died 



1349 

 Henry of Wykeham, 12 elected 1349, died 



1361 



John of Westbury, 13 elected 1361, died 1386 

 Richard Langton, 14 elected 1386 

 Thomas Rede, 16 elected 1405 

 Richard Borton, 18 died 1445 

 John Humberstone, 17 elected 1445, died 



1458 



1 Pat. I Edw. IV. pt. iv., m. 23 ; Line. Epis. Reg. 

 Memo. Chadworth, y6d. 



2 The hermitage of SS. Stephen and Laurence 

 at Chetwode never had any connection with the 

 priory : all its chaplains during the thirteenth and 

 fourteenth centuries were presented by members 

 of the Chetwode family. 



3 Feud. Aids, i. 87. 



4 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Grosstcte. 



Ibid. Rolls of Gravesend. His name is given 

 as John of Woodstock in Close, 3 Edw. I. m. 23. 

 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend. 

 ' Ibid. Inst. Dalderby, I77d. 

 s Ibid. Ibid. 190. 



10 Pat. 2 Edw. III. pt. ii., m. 31. 



11 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Burghersh, 350. 

 *> Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 240. 13 Ibid. 

 i 4 Ibid. Inst. Bokyngham, ii. 385. 



18 Ibid. Inst. Repingdon, 429. 



i Ibid. Inst. Alnwick, 193. Ibid. 



13. THE PRIORY OF RAVEN- 

 STONE 



The priory of St. Mary, Ravenstone, was 

 founded about the year 1255 by Peter Chace- 

 porc, keeper of the royal wardrobe, on lands 

 which formed a part of the barony of Wahull. 18 

 After the death of Peter the patronage of the 

 house reverted to the Crown, and the canons 

 were bound to sing a certain number of 

 masses for the soul of the king as founder. 19 

 The number of canons provided for in the 

 original foundation is unknown : at the dis- 

 solution of the house there were only two left, 

 though an income of about 70 would have 

 easily supported more. It was probably on 

 account of this diminished number that the 

 priory was granted to Cardinal Wolsey for his 

 college at Oxford, and dissolved 17 February, 

 1524. 20 The canons received 2OS. each as 

 ' wages.' 2l No visitations of the house are 

 recorded at Lincoln : nor is it easy to recover 

 any details of its history, exterior or interior. 

 The original endowment included half a 

 knight's fee at Ravenstone, with the parish 

 church, and a demesne of 386 acres besides." 

 There is no evidence that it was ever much 

 increased. The Taxatio of Pope Nicholas 

 assigns to its temporalia a value of 11 los. ; 

 the church was worth 10 a year. In 1316 

 the prior held one third of the village of 

 Ravenstone, 23 and the same amount in 1346." 

 At the dissolution the total value of the house 

 is given as 66 ip. 4</., 25 or, at another reckon- 

 ing, 72.*" The moveable goods were worth 

 10, the bells 33 6s. Sd." 



PRIORS OF RAVENSTONE 

 Adam of Wymondley 28 (probably first 



prior), resigned 1275 

 Ralf of Ravenstone, 29 elected 1275 

 John, 30 died 1309 



Roger de Clare, 31 elected 1309, died 1324 

 William Aubel, 32 elected 1324, died 1328 

 Robert Maunsel, 33 elected 1328 

 John Man of Raundes, 34 elected 1398 



is Cal. of Chart. R. i. 447. 

 i Hand. R. (Rec. Com.), i. 37- 

 o L. and P. Henry VIII. iv. 1137. 

 " Ibid. 6222. Two servants were paid off at the 

 same rate. 



" Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 348. 



>3 Feud. Aids, i. no. " Ibid. 131. 



L. and P. Henry nil. iv. 3538. 



Ibid. 6788. " Ibid. 6222. 



<> Pat. 3 Edw. I. m. 32. 



2 Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend. 



ao Ibid. Inst Dalderby, 183. Ibid. 



32 Ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 33od. 



33 Ibid. 335d. 



Ibid. Inst. Bokyngham, ii. 



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