A HISTORY OF DORSET 



jf39 i6s. 2^y.,"^ and the house was committed 

 to the custody of the prior for the payment of 

 10/. and an annual farm of 405. at the exchequer.'** 

 A year later the prior of Wareham, together with 

 the heads of nine other abbeys and priories, was 

 ordered to remove to manors nearer the sea, for 

 the defence of the coast in view of a threatened 

 attack from the enemy.'*' 



Information may be gathered as to the manage- 

 ment of the cell in the middle of the fourteenth 

 century from a complaint made by Prior Robert 

 •de Gascur or Gascourt, soon after his appointment 

 in 1354,'*' as to the condition in which he then 

 found it. According to the writ of inquiry issued 

 the following year, the late Prior William de 

 Noys, to whom the custody had been committed, 

 had grievously abused his trust ; he had consumed 

 and entirely dissipated the goods and chattels of 

 the house, had alienated its property, and trans- 

 ferred abroad a large sum of money acquired by 

 such alienations ; the present head, in conse- 

 quence, found he could not get a sufficient living 

 for himself and his fellow monks, could neither 

 pay the king the annual farm of 40;. or 6 marks, 

 nor restore the buildings which his predecessor 

 had allowed to get out of repair, and he prayed 

 the crown to appoint a remedy.'*' We may 

 here state that the episcopal registers record the 

 presentation of priors to the ordinary by the 

 abbots of Lire, or their proctors the priors of 

 Carisbrooke, and their admission after having 

 made profession of canonical obedience ; but, as in 

 the case of the larger priories of Frampton and 

 Loders, no attempt seems to have been made by 

 the bishop to exercise jurisdiction. 



Richard II in 1 39 1 committed to Ralph 

 Maylok, proctor of the abbot of Lire, the custody 

 of all the possessions of the abbey in England, 

 with the exception of the three priories of 

 Carisbrooke, Wareham, and Hinckley (Leicester- 

 shire), for an annual rent of ^\1%. In Novem- 

 ber, 1394, the grant was renewed in favour of 

 Thomas Wallwayn, Robert de Whytyngton, 

 and William Slepe, but revoked the following 

 ) ear on the petition of the abbot's proctor.'^'' 

 An inquisition held at Wareham the Monday 

 before Easter, 1387, as to the possessions of 

 the priory, stated that these were then worth 

 j^io after all deductions and charges had been 

 reckoned."' In the last year of his reign, the 

 king, at the request of his nephew Thomas duke 

 of Sussex, made over to Edmund, prior of Mount 



'" Mins. Accts. bdle. 1 1 25, No. 9. 

 '" Close, 2 Edw. Ill, pt. 3, m. 6. 

 "' Rymer, Foed. (Rec. Com.), ii (2), 1062. 

 "' Sarum Epis. Reg. W)-ville, ii (Inst.), fol. 264. 

 '" Hutchins gives a copy of the original of this writ 

 ■of inquiry ; Hut. of Dorset, i, 87. 

 "" Pat. 18 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 7. 

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



Grace in York>hire, the priories of Hinckley, 

 Wareham, and Carisbrooke, paying respectively 

 a yearly farm of ^^50, ^^4, and no marks, with 

 the rest of the English possessions of the abbey, 

 the farm of which amounted to 200 marks, for 

 as long as the war should last, and quit of all 

 payment of yearly rent."^ 



Upon the suppression of alien houses in 141 4, 

 Henry V bestowed on the Carthusian priory 

 which he had founded at Sheen all the lands 

 belonging to the abbey of Lire in England with 

 the exception of the Hinckley prior)','^^ the Valor 

 of 1535 giving the Surrey foundation temporali- 

 ties and spiritualities in this county amounting to 

 j{^44 I Ox. 8^. from estates that had formerly 

 belonged to the late priory of Wareham.'** 



Priors of Wareham 



Roger, temp. Richard I "' 



William, occurs 12 16'** 



Nicholas Bynet, occurs 1297 '" 



Peter de Deserto, presented 1302 "' 



John Mabere, presented 1309,'*' died 1311 



Hilderic de Pacoys, presented 131 1 "" 



Ralph, called Coudray, presented 1323'" 



William de Bally, presented 1329,'*- resigned 



1332 



John de Bediers, presented 1332^*' 

 Michael de Molis, presented 1334'** 

 William de Barly, presented 1343"^ 



William de Noys, presented 1349, resigned 

 1354 166 



Robert de Gascur, or Gascourt, presented 



1354^" . 



Ludovicus de GoulafFe, presented 1362,"^ re- 

 signed in same year 



Peter de Ultra Aqua, presented 1362,'*' re- 

 signed 1364 



William de Minguet, presented 1364"' 



Stephin de Barra, died 1412"^' 



John Kyngeston, presented 1412"'^ 



Walter Eston, presented 1 41 6 "' 



"■ Pat. 22 Ric. II. pt. 3, m. lo-ii. 



'" Chart. R. 3 & 4 Hen. V, No. 8 ; Pat. 2 Hen. \I, 

 pt. 4, m. 26-27. 



'" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 52. 



'"As witness to a charter (1191-7) of Hawys, 

 countess of Gloucester ; Cat. Doc. France, 387. 



"* Close, 18 John, m. I, 2. 



'" Pat. 25 Edw. I, pt. I, m. 13. 



"'' Sarum Epis. Reg. Simon of Ghent. 



"» Ibid, i, fol. 79 d. >«° Ibid. fol. 106 d. 



'*' Ibid. Mortival, i, fol. 114. 



""Ibid. 178 a". 



"^^ Ibid. WpiUe, ii (Inst.), fol. 18. 



'"Ibid. fol. 31. '"Ibid. fol. 131. 



"« Ibid. fol. 264. '" Ibid. 



'«' Ibid. fol. 295. ■" Ibid. fol. 298. 



"" Ibid. fol. 305 d. '•' Ibid. Hallam, fol. 39. 



'" Ibid. 'n Ibid. fol. 59 d. 



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