A HISTORY OF DORSET 



good his position. This is the nearest approach 

 to any hint as to the internal condition of the 

 house that can be discovered. 

 , An inquisition held at Bridport the Wednesday- 

 after the Feast of the Annunciation, 1387, states 

 that the possessions of the priory in the parish of 

 Loders at that date were worth £^']0 and at Ax- 

 mouth, Devonshire, ;^30.'* Richard II, in the 

 early part of 1399, bestowed the house with all its 

 appurtenances, rendering a yearly farm of ;^8o to 

 the crown, on the Carthusian priory of St. Anne 

 by Coventry," but the grant can barely have 

 taken effect, for in November, almost immediately 

 after his accession, Henry IV restored it to its for- 

 mer owners in the person of the prior, Sampson 

 Trisal,''* the grant beina; confirmed to William 

 Burnell, collated to the priory in March, 1 40 1.''' 

 On the final suppression of alien houses in 1 414 

 Henry V made over the possessions of this cell to 

 the abbess and convent of the nunnery of Syon, 

 which he had founded in the manor of Isleworth, 

 Middlesex, the grant being ratified by Henry VI 

 in 1424,'° and confirmed by Edward IV in the 

 first year of his reign,*^ the manor appearing as 

 parcel of the possessions of the abbey of Syon in 

 the Valor of 1535.*' 



Priors of Loders 



Baldwin, occurs in 1205 *' 



R[oger or Robert], occurs in surrender deed of 



abbot of Montebourg, probably of the year 



1 2 1 3 ** 

 Robert, occurs 1308*' 

 William de Carentonio or le Condu, presented 



1313,^' withdrawn 1320 

 Roger de Hariel, presented 1320*' 

 Robert Dore, presented 1361,^ resigned 1364 

 Sampson Trigal, presented 1364*' 

 William Burnell, collated 1401'° 



35. THE PRIORY OF POVINGTON 



Povington, formerly a manor and now a 

 hamlet in the parish of Tyneham in the isle of 

 Purbeck, was granted to the abbot and monks 

 of Bec-Hellouin in Normandy by Robert Fitz 



"= Add. MS. 6164, fol. 506. 



" Pat. 22 Ric. II, pt. 3, m. 4. 



" Ibid. I Hen. IV, pt. 2, m. 13. 



" Ibid. 2 Hen. IV, pt. 3, m. 20. 



'" Ibid. 2 Hen. VI, pt. 3, m. 20. 



" Ibid. I ¥.dv/. IV, pt. 3, m. 1. 



*> Fa/or Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 425. 



^ Rot. de Finibus, 1 1 99-1 2 1 5 (Hardy), 3 1 3. 



^ Reg. Rubrum, fol. 142. 



** Sarum Epis. Reg. Simon of Ghent, ii, fol. 73. 



'« Ibid. fol. 126. 



" Ibid. Mortival, i, fol. 8 7 a". 



«' Ibid. Wyvllle, ii (Inst.), fol. 285. 



«' Ibid. fol. 305. 



"> Ibid. Mitford. 



Ceroid,'^ a Norman who accompanied the Con- 

 queror to England, and who is returned in 

 Domesday as holding ' Povintone ' of the king, 

 the manor being valued then and in the days of 

 Edward the Confessor at ;^ii.'^ In the roll of 

 Norman landowners in England of the year 

 1205 the manor of Povington belonging to the 

 abbot of Bee was valued at loof. unstocked, and 

 at double that amount with the stock. The prior 

 of Bee was reported to have removed since Easter 

 eighty-five cheeses and all the wool of the flock, 

 together with i mark from the sale of beans, 

 1 5x. from the sale of oats, and 20j. <)d. of the 

 Easter rent." 



Notwithstanding the many charters granted in 

 favour of this Norman abbey by the Norman and 

 early Plantagenet kings,''' the claim of the monks 

 to their estates here did not pass unchallenged. 

 As a result of a trial by wager of battle fought 

 out between Avenel Fitz Robert and Henry 

 abbot of Bee by his attorney, William de Wane- 

 cing, the former by a fine levied within fifteen 

 days of Michaelmas, 1223, released to the said 

 abbot his claim to the manor of Povington, and 

 received by way of compensation the sum of 

 30 marks of silver.^' 



Towards the close of the thirteenth century 

 the manor of Povington with its members of 

 West Whiteway in the parish of Tyneham, 

 Lutton and Blackmanstone in the parish of 

 Steeple, and Milborne Bee in the parish of Bere 

 Regis, had come to be reckoned as parcel of the 

 priory of Ogbourne, Wiltsliire, another cell to 

 Bee ; '* the temporalities of the prior of Og- 



^' The pancarta of this foreign abbey, granted by 

 Henry VI (Pat. 12 Hen. VI, pt. I, m. 13), contains 

 inspeximus charters of Henry IV, Richard II, Edward 

 III, Henry III, and Henry II, with a confirmation of 

 the possessions of the monies by Henry I, including a 

 grant of the manor of ' Ponniton ' in the county of 

 Dorset by Robert Fitz Ceroid. 



=' Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, 80^. 



" Rot. Norman. (Hardy), 123. 



'* See collection of charters contained in Pat. 1 2 

 Hen. VI, pt. I, m. 13, and Cal. Doc. France, 120-31. 



'^ Feet of F. 7 Hen. Ill, 5 (26). Again in the autumn 

 of 1225 Henry III directed the sheriff to del.iy a suit 

 between Avenel de Purbeck and the abbot respecting 

 acarucate of land with appurtenances in Milborne, 

 and between John Fordham and the abbot in regard 

 to the mill in Wareham until the following Easter, 

 on account of the death of the proctor-general of 

 the abbot in England, the abbot subsequently ap- 

 pointing Ralph de Exon, his monk, to act as his re- 

 presentative ; Close, 9 Hen. Ill, ni. 1 ; lo Hen. Ill, 

 m. 29. 



*' In 1206 John signified to the sheriff of Bucks, 

 that the prior of Ogbourne had paid ;^ioo down for 

 the right to hold in his custody all lands and pos- 

 sessions of the monks of Bee in England, so that he 

 might be disseised of none of them save by the special 

 command of the king, and that he had also engaged 

 to send none of the issues abroad ; Rot. de Oblatis 

 et Finibus, 1199-1216 (H.irdy), 314. The town of 



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