RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



bishops who held the see of Worcester from 

 1497 to 1535 appear to have been of a purely 

 formal character, and the abbots therefore met 

 with no interference. The household management 

 was conducted on the generous if not extravagant 

 scale of a great Benedictine monastery, and in- 

 cluded maintenance and wages for 144 servants. 

 The provision of spices, always an important 

 item in monastic accounts, had been assigned to 

 a special officer, the master of the spices, who 

 had 47 13*. nd. for that purpose. The 

 kitchener received ^32 131. id., the master of 

 the frater 1 4*. \\d. The exercise of hospi- 

 tality must have fallen to the abbot and 

 cellarer, for the hostiller had only ,3 51. 2d. y the 

 clear proceeds from the church of Ampney 

 Crucis. The almoner after setting aside 

 1$ 6s. 4</. in special alms, which included 

 clothing for sixteen poor scholars, and provision 

 for a number of boys who were clothed, fed, and 

 educated at the expense of his office, had 

 j35 1 3 S - 4^- I* would, however, be mislead- 

 ing to suppose that this sum represented the 

 charity of the monastery, for fixed alms occur as 

 a charge on the revenues of most of the other 

 officers. The income of the chief prior was 

 9 gs. 8d. The chamberlain who furnished the 

 clothes of the house and probably the liveries of 

 many of the servants received ^83 if. 6d. The 

 sacrist had 42 4.5. jd., the master of the Lady 

 Chapel 12 T,s. i^d. 



The monastery, including the three cells, was 

 surrendered on 9 January, 1 540.* It is probable 

 that the number of monks then in the 

 house was about thirty-seven ; thirty-six 

 were included in the pension list, 1 and of 

 these a prior and two monks lived at each 

 of the cells. John Wakeman, the abbot, 

 received a pension of 266 131. 4^., and drew 

 it until September, 1541, when he was conse- 

 crated to the newly-founded see of Gloucester. 

 The prior got 16 a year, the priors of the cells 

 of Deerhurst and St. James, Bristol, 13 6s. 8d., 

 the prior of Cranbourne and one other monk 

 10, two of them ^8, another j, and the 

 remaining twenty-seven 6 131. \d. each. 

 Wages were paid up to date to 144 servants.* 



The possessions 4 of the monastery included 

 the manor and borough of Tewkesbury, the 

 manors of Coin St. Dennis, Compton Parva, 

 Preston-upon-Stour, Alvescot, Welford, Wash- 

 bourne, Prescot, Gotherington, Tredington, Fid- 

 dington, Oxenton, Walton Cardiff, Forthamp- 

 ton, Ampney Crucis, Hosebridge, Lemington, 

 Church Stanway in Gloucestershire, the manor 

 of Pull Court, a moiety of the manor of Queen- 

 hill, the manors of Bushley, Pirton, Ashton 

 Keynes and Leigh, in Worcestershire, the 



1 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xv, No. 139, ir. 



' Dugdale, op. cit. ii, 83. 



* Ibid. 58. 



4 yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 471-86. 



manor of Burnet in Somerset, the manor of 

 Taynton in Oxfordshire ; in Dorsetshire the 

 manors of Cranbourne, Chettle, Upwimborne, 

 Boveridge with Estworth, Tarrant Monachorum; 

 in Sussex the manors of Kingston and Wyke ; 

 in Devon t he manors of Loose beare and Midlande; 

 rents in Gloucester, Cardiff and other places ; and 

 the rectories of Tewkesbury, Fiddington, Wal- 

 ton-Cardiff, Aston-upon-Carron, Southwick and 

 Tredington, Compton Parva, Preston-upon- 

 Stour, Washbourn, Forthampton, Thornbury, 

 Ampney, Fairford, Eastleach, Wotton-under- 

 Edge, Marshfield in Gloucestershire, Sherston 

 and Aldington in Worcestershire, Taynton in 

 Oxfordshire, Great Marlow and Chetelhampton 

 in Buckinghamshire, St. Wenne and Crewenne 

 in Cornwall, Tarrant Monachorum in Dorset, 

 Kingston in Sussex, in Wales Llantwit, Llanble- 

 thian, Llantrisant, Penmark with the chapel of 

 St. Donat and Cardiff, and tithes and pensions in 

 a number of other churches in England and 

 Wales, and the priories of Deerhurst, St. James 

 Bristol, and Cranbourne. 



ABBOTS' OF TEWKESBURY 



Gerald, appointed by William Rufus 



Robert, 1 1 1 o, ob. 1123 



Benedict, 1 1 24 



Roger, 1137 



Fromund, 1162, ob. 1178 



Robert, 1182 



Alan, 8 1187 



Walter, 7 1202 



Hugh, 8 1214, ob. 1215 



Bernard elected but not consecrated 



Peter, 1216 



Robert III,' 1232 



Thomas of Stoke, 1255 



Richard of Norton, 1276 



Thomas of Kempsey, 1282 



John Coles, 1328 



Thomas of Legh, 1347 



Thomas of Chesterton, 1361 



Thomas Parker, 1389 



William of Bristol, 1420 or 1421 



John of Abingdon, 10 1444 



John Galeys, 11 occurs 1453, ob. 1468 



John Strensham, 1468 



Richard Cheltenham, 1480 



Henry Beeley, 1509, occurs 1529 



John Walker, ob. 1531 



John Wakeman, 1531 



'The list is taken from Dugd.ilc.Afw.ii, 53-6. 

 It has been carefully checked, and additions are 

 noted. 



Ann. Mm. Rolls Ser. i, 53. 

 ' Ibid, i, 56, 57. 



Ibid. 61. ' Ibid. 83. 

 ' Heref. Epis. Reg. Spofford, ii, fol. 4. 



" B.M. MS. Cole, xxvii, p. 206. It has been sug- 

 gested, with great probability, that John of Abingdon 

 and John Galeys are identical. 



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