A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



ances, but to content himself with one servant 

 and one horse. Thirty years later he was still 

 in the service of the house, and paid the costs 

 of the appropriation of the church of Enstone. 1 

 In 1329 it was ordained that ten marks should 

 be set aside each year for the keeping of his 

 anniversary. 8 



On the resignation of John Yanworth in 

 1282, Walter of Wickwane, the cellarer, was 

 elected. He found the monastery in debt to the 

 sum of above 930 marks. 3 Being a shrewd and 

 able man of business, he not only extricated 

 the house from its difficulties, but added very 

 largely to its possessions. About 1288* he 

 obtained the appropriation of the parish church of 

 St. Peter at Winchcombe from Godfrey Giffard, 

 bishop of Worcester, and in 1309 the appropri- 

 ation of Enstone from John Dalderby, bishop of 

 Lincoln. 6 He also secured the great and small 

 tithes of the demesne of Hailing, Cutsdean, 

 Sponley, Hazleton, and Yanworth. 6 Among 

 his other acquisitions were the grange of Corn- 

 dean ; land in Thrupp and Coates to provide com- 

 forts for the monks when they were bled ; and 

 lands in Twyning, Gretton, Frampton, Honey- 

 bourne, Sherborne, and elsewhere, which added 

 j 1 5 to the rental of the monastery. 7 The pro- 

 perty which he obtained in London in 1301, in 

 the parish of St. Bride, Fleet Street, consisted of 

 a messuage with a hall, chambers, and stables, 

 and served as the abbot's lodging, 8 for he and his 

 successors were regularly summoned to attend 

 Parliament. 9 He bought timber for sixteen 

 granaries and many sheepfolds and for buildings 

 within the abbey. 10 In 1299 he obtained a con- 

 firmation from Edward I of the lease of Lindley 

 Warren from John of Sudeley for sixty years. 11 

 In 1276 a licence was granted him to enclose 

 60 acres of waste lands at Enstone, 12 in 1307 

 to assart 115 acres of waste land in Which- 

 wood Forest, 13 and in 1311 to enclose another 60 

 acres of waste land in the manor of Enstone. 14 

 He was generous in his dealings with the convent, 

 and increased the revenues of the prior, sacrist, 

 almoner, hostiller, master of the farmery, precentor, 

 pittancer, kitchener, and chamberlain, and made 

 provision for a larger daily allowance of bread to 

 the monks. 15 Probably in aid of the building 

 fund, he obtained from Nicholas IV in 1291 an 



1 Wore. Epis. Reg. Orlton, fol. 3 1 d. ; Royce, op. 

 cit. ii, Ixiii. 



' Royce, op. cit, ii, Ixiii. 

 * Dugdale, op. cit. ii, 304. 

 4 Royce, op. cit. i, 268. s Ibid. 313. 



' Dugdale, op. cit. ii, 304. 7 Ibid. 



8 Ibid.; Cal. of Pat. 29 Edw. I, m. 21. 

 8 The abbot was summoned first in 1265; cf. 

 Dugdale, op. cit. viii, app. 



10 Ibid, ii, 304. ll Cal. of Pat. 27 Edw. I, m. 12. 

 " Royce, op. cit. ii, 25. ls Ibid. 27 ; i, 301. 



14 Cal. of Pat. 4 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 8. 

 16 Dugdale. op. cit. ii, 305-9 ; Constitutions 

 Walteri de Wykeviane. 



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indulgence of a year and forty days for penitents 

 who visited the monastery on the feasts of the 

 Virgin and St. Kenelm. 18 He caused the 

 presbytery and the chapels on the north side of it 

 to be vaulted. 17 It is difficult to realize how the 

 money was obtained for the accomplishment of 

 his objects. Over ^1,050 was paid in taxes to 

 the crown and the papacy between 1282 and 

 1 3 1 1 , 18 The grange of Corndean was given by 

 Oliver, brother of Ralph of Sudeley, for the 

 support of two monks, 19 but the lease of Lindley 

 Warren cost ^6o. 20 The expenses of the sacrist 

 who was the officer responsible for the building 

 at Winchcombe were exceeding his receipts, 21 and 

 in aid of the vaulting he was allowed 4.1. from 

 each shop owned by the convent within the 

 north gate of Gloucester, the tithe of lambs at 

 Winchcombe, and the whole tithe of Sudeley. 22 

 Before 1307 William of Cherington gave ^40 

 for the fabric. 23 In that year, because, as they 

 urged, the resources of the monastery did not 

 suffice for the completion of the fabric and the 

 maintenance of alms and hospitality, and the 

 house was already in debt, the abbot and convent 

 succeeded in appropriating the church of Enstone. 24 

 Though assessed only at 40 marks, 25 its revenues 

 amounted to 80 marks, 26 but the convent did 

 not enter into immediate enjoyment of them, for, 

 probably in order to induce William de Haustede, 

 the rector, to resign in their favour, they were 

 obliged to guarantee him a pension of that 

 amount. 27 In 1309 the convent owed ^200 to 

 Hugh of Normanton. 28 The assessment of the 

 temporalities of Winchcombe in 1291 amounted 

 to under ^ no, 29 but there were other sources of 

 revenue. At the beginning of the fourteenth 

 century, forty sacks of wool were sold on an 

 average every year at the rate of 13 marks 

 a sack. 30 Several corrodies were granted, but 

 these do not seem to have brought in any con- 

 siderable sum of money. However, the ad- 

 ministration and discipline of the house satisfied 

 so stern a visitor as Giffard, bishop of Worcester, 31 

 proved himself to be in other monasteries, and so 

 vigorous a reformer as Winchelsey, archbishop of 

 Canterbury, when he came thither on his metro- 



16 Cal. Papal L. (Rolls Ser.) i, 541. 



17 Dugdale, op. cit. ii. 304. I8 Ibid. 

 19 Royce, op. cit. i, 290. 



10 Cal. of Pat. 27 Edw. I, m. 12. 

 " Dugdale, op. cit. ii, 309. " Ibid. 



13 Ibid. 308 ; Royce, op. cit. i, 299. 

 " Royce, op. cit. ii, 44. 

 15 Ibid. Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 233^. 

 >6 Royce, op. cit. ii. Ixiii. Wore. Epis. Reg. 

 Orlton, fol. 31^. 

 " Royce, op. cit. i, 259, 260. 

 88 Cal. of Close, 3 Edw. II, m. 1 6 d. 

 19 Pope. Nich. Tax (Rec. Com.) 45, 228, 233. 



80 Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and 

 Commerce, i, 640 (ed. 1905). 



81 No corrections at Winchcombe are entered in 

 GifarJ's Register (Wore. Hist. Soc.). 



