A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



all the monks might need for building pur- 

 poses. 1 



The temporalia. of the priory in 1291 

 amounted to 14 gs. $d. 2 In 1279 the priory 

 held Akeley and its church in frank-almoin, 

 Great Horwood and its church, and the 

 church of Whaddon. 3 In 1302 he held the 

 village of Akeley as one knight's fee, and lands 

 in Great Horwood.* In 1316 he answered 

 for Akeley, Newton Longville and Great 

 Horwood 6 ; in 1346 for half a fee in Akeley. 6 



PRIORS OF NEWTON LONGVILLE 



William, 7 occurs 1236 



Peter, 8 occurs 1262 



John de Panneville, 9 occurs 1277 



Richard,' occurs 1297 



William de Talley,' 1 occurs 1306 



33. THE PRIORY OF WING 



Before the compilation of Domesday the 

 Benedictine monks of St. Nicholas, Angers, 

 held 2\ hides in Crafton of the Count of Mor- 

 tain, valued at q.. 12 Later on they acquired 

 also the advowson of the church of Wing, and 

 other lands in the same parish to the extent of 

 660 acres 13 ; but it is quite uncertain when 

 the priory was built. There was a suit in the 

 reign of John and another in 1248 between 

 the abbot of St. Nicholas and the Talbots 

 with reference to feudal customs : Quintin 

 Talbot first and William Talbot after him de- 

 manding provision for thirty-two reapers and 



i Round, Cal. of Doc. France, 74-77. Akeley 

 is not mentioned in these charters, but it is said in 

 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i. 32 to have been held in 

 frank-almoin of the gift of Walter Giffard. 



* Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.). 



3 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i. 32, ii. 336, 338, 339. 



4 Feud. Aids, i. 100, 101. 



e Ibid. 108, 109, 112. Ibid. 125. 



* Feet of F. 20 Hen. III. No. 50. 

 8 Dugdale, M on. vi. 1036. 



Ibid. 10 Ibid. " " Ibid. 



See Domesday translation. 

 " Feet of F. 32 Hen. III. No. 8. 



other rights, including two candles apiece for 

 all their servants on Candlemas Day ; they 

 also claimed the right to hold their courts in 

 the abbot's hall at Wing as often as they 

 pleased. 14 There is no reference here to a 

 monastery at Wing, and indeed it may be 

 doubted if there ever was one in the strict 

 sense at all : it seems more probable that it 

 was but a small cell of two or three monks who 

 resided there merely to look after the abbot's 

 property. The fact that only two presenta- 

 tions were ever made to the parish church by 

 a prior of Wing, while the rest were made by 

 the proctor-general in England of the Abbot 

 of St.|Nicholas, tends to support this theory. 15 

 There are no remains of the monastic build- 

 ings from which any certain conclusions may 

 be drawn : the history of the priory is very 

 obscure, and in all probability must remain so. 

 The original endowment included lands at 

 Wing amounting to 660 acres, with the ad- 

 vowson of the parish church. The monks of 

 Wing had also in 1291 a pension of .1 zs. in 

 the church of Henlow, Bedfordshire. 18 The 

 priory was in the king's hand between 1342 

 and 1361, and again from 1393 to 1423." In 

 1416 it was confiscated finally as an alien cell, 

 and granted to the prioress and convent of 

 St. Mary de Prc in Hertfordshire. 18 



PRIORS OF WING 



Geoffrey, 19 occurs 1271 



Robert de Bures, 20 occurs 1312 



Peter de Monte ardito, 21 appointed 1377 



" Feet of F. 32 Hen. III. No. 8. 



15 The presentation of 1312 was made by Brother 

 Robert de Bures, dictus prior of Wing, and proctor 

 general of the abbey of St. Nicholas. 



i Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.). 



17 This is gathered from thelistof vicars of Wing, 

 inserted in the Churchwardens' Book of that parish 

 and taken from the Lincoln Registers. 



18 Dugdale, Man. vi. 1046. 



19 From the list of vicars. 

 " Ibid. 



'i Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Bokyngham, 442. 



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