RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



a compound of many things.' 1 It was dispatched 

 to London, and on 24 November Hilsey, bishop 

 of Rochester, preached at Paul's Cross, and there 

 showed the Blood of Hayles, affirming it to be 

 ' honey clarified and coloured with saffron, as had 

 been evidently proved before the king and his 

 council.' * Abbot Stephen wrote to Cromwell 

 praying that he might destroy the empty shrine, 

 * lest it should minister occasion for stumbling to 

 the weak.'* 



On 24 December, 1539, the abbot and 

 twenty-one monks surrendered the monastery. 4 

 Dr. London and his fellow-commissioners re- 

 ported to Cromwell that they found 



the father and all hi* brethren very honest and con- 

 formable persons, and the house clearly out of debt. 

 . . . The father had his house and grounds so well 

 furnished with jewels, plate, stuff, corn, cattle, and 

 the woods also so well saved, as though he had looked 

 for no alteration of his house.* 



A pension of 100 a year, with the manor- 

 house of Coscomb, was assigned to the abbot ; 

 the prior and one monk got 8 ; the rest received 

 pensions varying from j to ji 6;. 8d. a year, 

 and two monks were given vicarages.* Wages 

 were paid to seventy servants of the house- 

 hold. 7 



In 1535 the clear yearly value of the property 

 of Hayles amounted to 357 js. 8J</. 8 The 

 possessions of the monastery included the 

 manors of Hayles, Pinnockshire, Nether Swell, 

 Wormington, Coscomb, Longborough ; rents 

 in the towns of Gloucester and Winchcombe ; 

 lands and rents in Didbrook, Challingworth, and 

 Farmcote, in Gloucestershire ; the manor of 

 Rodbourne in Wiltshire ; pastures at Heathend 

 in Worcestershire ; and the rectories of Hagley 

 in Suffolk, Northley in Oxfordshire, St. Breage 

 and St. Paul in Cornwall, Rodbourne in Wilt- 

 shire, Hayles, Didbrook, Longborough, and 

 Toddington in Gloucestershire. 



ABBOTS OF HAYLES 



Jordan, I246 10 



Hugh, occurs 1280" and 1305 u 



Glouc. A', and Q. iv, 576. 



Wright, op. cit. 237 . 



Glouc. N. and Q. iv, 575. 



L. and P. Hen. HU, xv, No. 1 39, iv. 



Wright, op. cit, 136-7. 



Dugdale, MM. v, 689. 



Aug. Off. Bk. 494, fbl. 70. 



Valor Ecclfi. (Rec. Com.), ii, 456. 



The abbots of Hayles have been confused with 

 the abbots of Hales Owen in Shropshire. A list of the 

 abbots of Hales Owen is included in Gasquet, Coll. 

 Angl. Premonstratentia (R. Hist. Soc.), ii, 237. Of 

 these Walter de Hagge and Bartholomew are wrongly 

 let down at abbots of Hayles by Dugdale, Man. v, 687. 

 ' Harl. MS. 3725, fbl. 33 v. (B. M.). 

 " Brist. and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Tram. Jtxii, 258. 

 " Wore. Epis. Reg. Gainsborough, fol. 7. 



John of Gloucester, 1305," occurs 1333" 



Thomas, occurs 1345 u 



Nicholas of Hayles, 1351 " 



Thomas, 1354 " 



John of Gloucester, 1 368 " 



Robert, occurs 1380" 



Henry of Alcester, 1 397 " 



Robert of Alcester, occurs 1403," ob. 1420* 



William Henley, 1420," occurs 1435 ** 



Robert Laurak, 1451 ** 



William Whitchurch, 1464* 



Richard Wotton, 1479 r 



John Combeck, occurs 1483 w 



Thomas Stafford, 1483," occurs 1503* 



Anthony Melton, occurs 1515," k. circa 



I 5 2 7 

 Stephen Sagar, 1527 "-39 



A seal of the fifteenth century represents a 

 monk standing on a flight of three steps, in his 

 right hand a globular bottle with cylindrical 

 neck or ampulla, with cross issuing from the 

 mouth in allusion to the Holy Blood ; in the 

 left hand a sprinkler ; the field resplendent with 

 wavy branches of foliage with pierced cinquefoil 

 flowers. 34 



The legend is : 

 SICILLV FRATERNITAT' . MONASTERU BEATE 



MARIE DE HEYLES.t 



14. THE ABBEY OF KINGSWOOD 



The monastery of Tintern was founded in 

 1131 as a daughter house of the Cistercian 

 monastery of L'Aumone in the diocese of 

 Chartres." The monks rapidly increased in 

 numbers, and in a few years' time, in accordance 

 with the Cistercian usage, the abbot and convent 

 were anxious to send out a colony of their 

 brethren to found a daughter house." Roger of 

 Berkeley II purposed to give them the manor of 



" Ibid. fol. 30. 



" Cal. of Pat. 6 Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. I. 

 " Ibid. 19 Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. 9 d. 

 'Wore. Epis. Reg. Thoresby, fol. 35. 

 " Ibid. Brian, fol. IO. 

 11 Heref. Epis. Reg. Charlton, fol. 31. 

 " Dugdale, Mm. v, 687. 

 10 Wore. Epis. Reg. Winchcombe, fol. \6J. 

 " Cal. of Pat. 5 Hen. IV, pt. i, m. 27 d. 

 " Wore. Epis. Reg. Morgan, fol. 1 5 d. 

 " Ibid. " Ibid. Bourchier, fol. 10. 



!i Ibid. Carpenter, i, fol. 95. 

 "Ibid. fol. 185. 



" Ibid. Alcock, fol. 52 ; on death of W. Whitchurch. 

 18 Ibid. fol. 1 20 d. 

 " Ibid. 



" Ibid. Silvest? de Giglis, fol. 33. 

 " Ibid. fol. 1^ d. 

 " Ibid, de GLnucci, fol. 750'. 

 n Ibid. fol. 75 d. 



" Birch, Catalogue of Seals in British Muttum, i, 580. 

 " Dugdale, Man. v, 265 ; Ann. Man. (Rolls Ser.), 

 ii, 228. 



14 Dugdale, op. cit. v, 425. 



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