RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



AN.jj/.i_.i.\j.i.\_y-> 



Ccrney, Widmarshmore, Cherington, Henlow, 

 rents in Gloucester and Cirencestcr, and the 

 rectories of Harrington Magna, Harrington Parva, 

 Windrush, Hempstead, Brockworth, Painswick, 

 Haresfield, Prestbury, Frome Episcopi, Borough- 

 hill, Tytherington, Caldicote, Barton Lacy, 

 Cherington, Kington, Staunton Lacy, Llantri- 

 sant, Weobley and Awre, and the chapel of 

 St. Kinburga at Gloucester. 1 The property of 

 Lanthony Prima yielded ^99 19*. oj^.* 



PRIORS OF LANTHONY BY GLOUCESTER * 



Robert de Braci, 1137* 



William de Wycombe, 1137* 



Clement, 1150,' occurs circa 1170' 



Roger of Norwich occurs 1 178* 



Geofrrey de Henlow occurs 1191' and 



!20 3 W 



Martin occurs 1 203 n 



Gilbert occurs circa 1 203 1J 



Walter of Monmouth occurs 1207 ls 



John de Heyhampstead occurs 12 17,'* ob. 



1240" 



Geoffrey de Banbury resigned 1251" 

 Edward or Everard, 1251" 

 William de Ashwell occurs 1267" and 



1276" 

 Walter de Martley elected 1283,* occurs 



1 300 " 



1 Valor Ecclei. (Rec. Com.), ii, 423-30. 



'Ibid. 431. 



'In the list given by Dugdale, Man. vi, 127, 

 the priors of Lanthony Prima and Lanthony Secunda 

 are confused. The list in MS. Cotton, Julius D. x, was 

 evidently compiled by a canon of Lanthony Prima, 

 and the five priors after the partition belong to that 

 house. In AngKa Sacra, ii, 322, Wharton introduced 

 another source of error by confusing the Cluniac 

 Priory of Lenton with Lanthony. Thus Matthew 

 (or Peter) prior of Lenton, who became abbot of 

 Bardney in 1214, disappears from our list. Cf. jinn. 

 Man. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 40. Thomas of Elmham, a 

 monk of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, is also wrongly 

 included by Wharton and Dugdale. 



4 Dugdale, op. cit. vi. 133. * Ibid. 133. 



MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 643. 



' Jeayes, Catalogue of Muniments of Lord Fitzhardingt 

 at Berkeley Castle, p. 1 1 . 



' MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 643. 



Ibid. 644. 



" In i 203 he became bishop of St. David's ; Ann. 

 Man. (Rolls Ser.), i, 57 ; Giraldui Cambrensis (Rolls 

 Ser.), i, 108, 112, 306; iii, 82, 259-62. 



" MS. Cotton, Julius D. x, fol. 32 ; MS. Top. 

 Glouc. C. 5, 644. 



" Brist. and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Trans, xxv. p. 224. 



" MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 644. " Ibid. 



" Ann. Man. (Rolls Ser.), i, 1 1 6. 



" Ibid. 146 ; MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 645. 



" Ann. Man. (Rolls Ser.), i, 146 ; MS. Top. 

 Glouc. C. 5, 645. 



" Ibid. 646. ' Ibid. 



" Wore. Epis. Reg. Giffard (Wore. Hist. Soc.), 1 74. 



" MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 646. 



John Chaundos occurs 1300** and 1320* 

 William de Pendebury resigned 1324,** rein- 

 stated 1326,** ci. 1362** 

 Simon de Brockworth, 1362," b. 1376 or 



1377* 

 William de Cheriton, 1377-1401 * 



John Lymnor, 1401 * 

 John Wyche, 1409-36" 

 John Garland, 1436-57** 

 John Heyward, 1457" 

 Henry Deane, 1467" 

 Edmund Forrest, 1501,** occurs 1525 ** 

 Richard Hempstead or Hart occurs 1534- 

 39 w 



A seal of the fifteenth century represents the 

 Virgin crowned, seated in a heavily canopied 

 niche, with tabernacle work at the sides, the 

 Child with nimbus on her right knee, at her feet 

 a lion passant. 



The legend is : 



SICILLVM COMVNB PRIORIS ET CONVENTVS 

 ECCL'lE BEATE MARIE LANTHONI IVX. 

 GLOUCESTRM ** 



10. THE PRIORY OF HORSLEY 



In the reign of William the Conqueror, Roger 

 Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, endowed the 

 Benedictine abbey of St. Martin at Trouarn in 

 Normandy with the manors of Horsley in Glou- 

 cestershire and Runckton in Sussex.*' Another 

 Norman lord, Robert de Romeliolo, gave the 

 church of St. Andrew at Wheatenhurst near 

 Horsley. 40 A prior and monks from Trouarn 

 lived in the cell at Horsley until I26o. 41 In that 

 year the abbot and convent of Trouarn gave all 

 their property in England to the abbot and con- 

 vent of Bruton in exchange for their possessions 

 in the dioceses of Coutance and Bayeux. 4 ' Thus 

 Horsley ceased to be an alien priory, and became 

 a dependent cell of Bruton, which had been 

 founded as a house of Augustinian canons in 

 1142 by William de Mohun. 43 



" Cal. of Pat. 28 Edw. I, m. 15. 



* Ibid. 13 Edw. II, m. 17. 



14 Ibid. 17 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 27. 



* Wore. Epis. Reg. Cobham, fol. 125, 126. 



* MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 648. 



" Ibid. 649. * Ibid. " Ibid. 



"Ibid. 653. " Ibid. 654, 655. 



" Ibid. 656 ; Wore. Epis. Reg. Bourchier, fol. 17. 

 MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 657. 

 14 Ibid. 657. 



" Ibid. 660 ; Wore. Epis. Reg. Silvester de Giglis, 

 fol. 182 d. 



" MS. Top. Glouc. C. 5, 66 1. 

 " Dtp. Keeper's Rep. vii, App. ii, 290. 

 " Birch, Catalogue of Seats in the British Museum, 1,614. 



* Dugdale, Man. vii, 1030, 1031. 

 "Ibid. 1031. 41 Ibid. 



Cartul. of Bruton and Montacute (Somerset Rec. 

 Soc.), 76. 

 u Ibid, xviii. 



