A HISTORY OF DORSET 



becoming void in 1534 the duke of Richmond 

 wrote to Cromwell requesting him to grant the 

 monks liberty to elect their own abbot, ' as the 

 convent intends to take care of my deer ' in 

 certain lands adjoining the monastery.'' In 

 January the following year, the abbot of Ford, 

 by virtue of the royal commission, was authorized 

 to visit the Cistercian houses of Bindon and 

 Tarrant," but no report has been found as to his 

 'findings.' 



The Valor of 1535 gave the abbey spiritualities 

 amounting to j^i3 41. 6d. from the parsonage of 

 Chaldon, and tithes in Winfrith Newburgh, 

 Burngate, and West Chaldon,^" and temporalities 

 from the manors of Bindon, Wool, East Burton, 

 Pulham, Chaldon Herring, and South Fossil, 

 West Lulworth, and other lands.'^ Among the 

 expenses was the sum of 3^. 4^. annually dis- 

 tributed to the poor in Chaldon, and 13J. ^.d. 

 annually distributed at Abbotsbury for the soul 

 of the founders, 'Roger' Newburgh and Ma- 

 tilda his wife. The abbey, with a clear annual 

 income ofj^i47 7;. 94^/.,^" came under the earlier 

 Act for the suppression of all houses under the 

 yearly value ofj^200.^' There is no evidence of 

 a genuine desire on the part of Henry VIII to 

 save the house, but on the payment of £300°* 

 the king, by letters patent dated i6 November, 

 1536, restored it and constituted the former 

 abbot head ; the respite was of a very temporary 

 nature, for the house fell with the larger monas- 

 teries in 1539 and was suppressed on 14 March 

 of that year.°* The abbot, John Norman, who 

 signed the surrender deed with the prior and 

 six brethren, received a pension of ;^50 ; the 

 prior, who had a yearly corrody in the monas- 

 tery of jTio, received j^8 ; Stephen Farsey 

 was appointed to the living of Bindon, worth 

 £6 135. 4(-/. without tithes and oblations, ' if he 

 be impotent then to have io6j. ^.d.;' the sub- 

 prior had £j ; and of the four remaining, one had 

 £$, another ^4, and two received £2 each.^^ 



Abbots of Bindon 



John, resigned 1191, in which year he became 



abbot of Ford " 

 Henry ^' 



Ralph, occurs 1227 °' 

 John, occurs 1232'" 

 William" 



'» L. and P. Hen. Fill, vii, 821. =' Ibid, viii, 74. 



"" Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 239. " Ibid. 240-1 . 



'' Ibid. " L. and P. Hen. VIII, x, 1238. 



"Ibid, xili (2), 457, I (3). 



" Ibid, xiv (i), 509. ^ Ibid. 



^^ Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), i, 21. 



'" Given by Hutchins without reference, Hisl. of 

 Dors, iii, 355. 



™ Ibid, from Fin. Cone. Dors. 1 1 Hen. Ill, No. 30. 



'" P.it. 16 Hen. Ill, m. 8 d". 



" Cited by Hutchins from a charter undated. Cus- 

 tum. Glaston. 84. 



Robert, occurs 1243 ''"'^ 1252" 



Reginald, occurs 1275'^ 



William, occurs 1290'* 



Walter, elected 1309 '' 



Richard, occurs 1316'^ 



John de Monte Acuto, deposed 1331-2 by 



order of the chapter-general of Cheaux'' 

 William, occurs 1331 "* 

 Roger HarnhuU, appointed 1332"' 

 William de Comenore, elected 1338"' 

 Philip, occurs 1350*' 

 William Chetus or Cletus, elected 1361 *^ 

 William Fordington, occurs 1400*'* 

 Robert Lulworth, occurs 1433** 

 John Smith, occurs 1444*° 

 William Comere, occurs 1446'° 

 Robert, occurs 1458 and 1464*' 

 Thomas, occurs 1467** 

 John, occurs 1485 and 1495'' 

 John Bryan, occurs 1499''' 

 John Waleys, occurs 1523^^ 

 Thomas, occurs 1529^^ 

 John Norman, elected 1534, surrendered 



finally 1539°' 



A fourteenth-century pointed oval seal with 

 a very imperfect impression and the legend en- 

 tirely defaced represents two crowned saints in 

 a canopied niche. There is an obliterated shield 

 of arms on each side. In base under a pointed 

 arch an abbot is lifting up his hands in adora- 

 tion.'* A much mutilated example of this seal 

 is attached to the surrender deed of the abbey ."^ 



" Hutchins, Hist, of Dors, iii, 355. " Ibid. 



" Pat. 1 8 Edw. I, m. 29. He may probably be 

 identical with William de Huleburn, who occurs 

 1296. Ibid. 24 Edw. I, m. 17 J. 



" He made his profession and was blest by the 

 bishop 5 Ides May of that year. Sarum Epis. Reg. 

 Simon of Ghent, ii, fol. 79 </. 



" He was summoned to convocation in that year. 

 Ibid. Mortival, il, fol. 31. 



" Close, 6 Edw. Ill, m. 3 d. 



" Pat. 5 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 15. This was probably 

 merely a temporary appointment. 



" S.irum Epis. Reg. Wyville, ii (Inst.), fol. 17. 



«" Ibid. fol. c,-j d. 



*' Cal. Pap. Letters, iii, 204. 



** Sarum Epis. Reg. Wyville, ii (Inst.), fol. 28612'. 



'' Hutchins, op. cit. " Ibid. 



" Sarum Epis. Reg. Aiscough. 



*° Ibid. " Hutchins, op. cit. 



^' Sarum Epis. Reg. Beauchamp, il, fol. 104. 



""^ Ibid. Langton, fol. 230 ; Blyth, fol. 47 d. 



" According to Hutchins (op. cit.) in that year 

 John Brjan was made rector of Chaldon Herring by 

 apostolic dispensation. 



"' Hutchins, op. cit. 



'' L. and P. Hen. VIII, iv, 6047. 



" Cf L. and P. Hen. VIII, vii, 821 ; Valor Eccl. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 421 ; L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (1), 

 519. 



»' B.M. Seals, Ixii, 24. 



" Deeds of Surrender, No. 21. 



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