RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



PRIORS OF HoRSLEV 1 

 Stephen, 1262,' occurs 1269' 

 Walter de Horwood, occurs 1271 4 

 Richard de la Grave, 1292' 

 William, 1298* 



William de Milverton, ob. 1329 " 

 Laurence de Haustede, 1329" 

 Henry de Lisle, I335, 18 resigned 1357 " 

 Richard de Holt, 1357,* resigned 1363" 

 William Gary, 1363" 



HOUSE OF AUGUSTINIAN CANONESSES 



ii. THE PRIORY OF ST. MARY 

 MAGDALEN, BRISTOL 



The priory of St. Mary Magdalen at Bristol 

 was founded in or about 1173, and endowed 

 with * competent ' possessions, by Eva, widow of 

 Robert Fitzharding, who is said to have been 

 the first prioress. 7 It was a house of canonesses 

 of the order of St. Augustine, 8 and as such was 

 subject to the visitation of the bishop of Wor- 

 cester, which was regularly exercised.' The 

 canonesses had the right of free election after 

 obtaining a congl (Fibre from the lords of 

 Berkeley, 10 but on more than one occasion either 

 they did not avail themselves of the right " or they 

 neglected some formality, which gave the bishop 

 the power to appoint. In 1421 he set aside 

 their election as invalid, 13 but nominated the 

 prioress of their choice. From the thirteenth 

 century onwards the community was very poor, 

 and on that account was exempt from payment 

 of procurations to the bishop at his visitation, 13 

 and from taxation. 14 The priory came under the 

 Act of 1536 for the suppression of the lesser 

 monasteries. On 3 August a commission was 

 issued for a survey of those monasteries in Bristol 



of which the revenues fell below 200 a year, 

 with a view of taking them over on the king's 

 behalf.** The commissioners reported that at the 

 priory of St. Mary Magdalen there were two re- 

 ligious, ' by report of honest conversation whereof 

 one professed being governor impotent and aged ; 

 the other a young novice desiring continuance 

 in religion.' * 4 They had two servants, a man 

 and a laundress. The church and house were 

 in good repair. The yearly value of the property 

 was set down at 2 1 i y. 2d. The house was 

 probably dissolved immediately afterwards. 24 



PRIORESSES OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN, 

 BRISTOL 



Eva, 1 ' ob. 1173 



Agnes of Gloucester,* 7 1347 



Matilda de Luttelton, 1349,** resigned 1356 *' 



Margery Long, 1363* 



Elizabeth Wodecroft, 1369," occurs 1386" 



Alice Clayville, ob. 1421 M 



Joan Waleys, 1421 ** 



Elizabeth Went, occurs 1499** 



Katherine Brown, occurs 1507,** . 1520 s7 



Eleanor Graunte, 1520** 



HOUSES OF CISTERCIAN MONKS 



12. THE ABBEY OF FLAXLEY 



The Cistercian monastery of Flaxley, some- 

 times called Dean, was founded between 1151 

 and 1154 by Roger, son of Milo Fitzwalter, earl 

 of Hereford. 16 According to tradition he chose 



1 It has not been possible to trace the names of the 

 priors of the first foundation who were appointed by 

 the abbot and convent of Trouarn. 



' Cartul. of Bruton and Montacute, 77. 



I Wore. Ef>is. Reg. Giffard (Wore. Hist. Soc.), 21. 

 4 Ibid. 46. 4 Ibid. 425. ' Ibid. 507. 



7 Smyth, Lives of the Berkeley! ; (ed. Maclean), 1,44; 

 Dugdale, Man. iv, 589. 



Wore. Epis. Reg. Morgan, fol. 6 d. ; Dubfin 

 Review, 1894, p. 275. 



Wore. Efis. Reg. Giffard (Wore. Hist. Soc.), 234. 

 10 Smyth, Lives of the Berkeley! (ed. Maclean), ii. 79. 



Won. Efis. Reg. Giffard (W 'ore. Hist. Soc.), 263. 

 " Wore. Epis. Reg. Bransford, fol. 145. 

 " Ibid. Morgan, fol. 6J. 



II Ibid. Giffard (Wore. Hist. Soc.) 234 ; Stttt Vat. 

 Reg. (Wore. Hist. Soc.), 1 20. 



"Ibid. Clifford, fol. 70^. 



14 Dugdale, Man. v, 589 ; Crawley-Boevey, Cartul. 

 of Flaxley, i ; Engl. Hist. Rev. 1893, p. 648. 



10 Ibid. 

 Ibid. 



as a site the spot on which his father had been 

 killed while hunting in 1143.** Between 1151 

 and 1154 Henry, duke of Normandy and count 

 of Anjou, confirmed to the monks of the Cis- 

 tercian Order the grants which Roger, earl of 



14 Wore. Epis. Reg. Orlton, fol. 33. He may be 

 the prior who was appointed in 1298. 

 " Ibid. fol. 33. 

 " Ibid. Montacute, fol. 20. 

 "Ibid. Brian, i, fol. ^^d. 

 11 Ibid. Barnet, fol. 4 d. 

 n Dublin Review, April, 1894, p. 250. 

 " Ibid. 275. 



14 L. and P. Hen. Vlll. xi, 307. 

 14 Dugdale, Man. iv, 589. " Ibid. 



"Wore. Epis. Reg. Bransford, fol. 145. 

 " Ibid. Brian, fol. 17. " Ibid. Barnet, fol. 27. 

 11 Ibid. Lynn, fol. 20 d. 

 " Cal. of Pat. 10 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 33. 

 * Wore. Epis. Reg. Morgan, fol. 6 d. 

 "Ibid. fol. 6d. 



44 Birch, Orig. Doc. relating to Bristol, No. 143. 

 14 Ibid. No. 1 06. 



" Wore. Epi. Reg. Jerome Ghinucci, fol. 2. 

 " Ibid. fol. 2. 

 " Cartul. of Flaxley, 4. 



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