A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



Godfrey Giffard sent a mandate to the prior of 

 the hospital of Lechlade to visit the hospital of 

 Longbridge and inquire concerning the condition 

 of the brethren and other persons dwelling there, 1 

 as he hoped to bring it to a more prosperous 

 state. In 1321 Thomas Cobham commissioned 

 Nicholas de Gore to inquire into the condition of 

 the property of the hospital, and to discover what 

 had become of the books and ornaments of the 

 chapel, and the muniments and seal. The sick 

 poor had apparently been ousted. 2 On 30 

 March, 1322, after receiving the report of the 

 commissioner, the bishop wrote to the rural 

 deans, rectors, and vicars in the archdeaconry of 

 Gloucester bidding them fulminate the sentence 

 of excommunication in their churches against 

 certain persons, both clerks and laymen, in that 

 archdeaconry who were said to have taken away 

 the property of the hospital, unless they should 

 at once restore it to Stephen de Brampton, to 

 whom the bishop gave the office of master. 3 



The hospital benefited greatly under the will 

 of William, marquis of Berkeley, in 1492. He 

 directed that his executors should purchase a rental 

 of 22 marks to find two priests for the chapel 

 of Longbridge, and should spend 100 marks 

 in building a house for them, 40 marks more 

 in buying vestments and ornaments for the 

 chapel, and in addition should buy a papal in- 

 dulgence, 'as large as may be had," to wor- 

 shippers therein on the feast of the Trinity, 

 who offered prayers for the souls of himself, his 

 father and son. 4 The hospital of Longbridge was 

 suppressed under the Act for the dissolution of 

 chantries of 1547.* 



PRIORS OR MASTERS OF THE HOSPITAL OF 

 LONGBRIDGE 



Henry, occurs 1270,* ob. 1275 7 



Robert de Werwich, 1275 8 



Henry Hass, 1278" 



William de Cokebury, 1285 10 



John of Newington, 1286 n 



Stephen of Brampton, I322 12 



John de Barneby, 1331 13 



Robert, 1349" 



Roger le Frend, 1355," exchanged I3S6 16 



1 Wore. Epis. Reg. Giffard (Wore. Hist. Soc.), 72, 

 76. 



1 Wore. Epis. Reg. Cobham, fol. 74^. 



3 Ibid. fol. 86. 



4 Smyth, Lives of the Berkeley:, 71. 



5 Ibid. 71. 



6 Jeayes, Catalogue of Mutt, of Lord Fitzhardinge, 



'37- 



7 Wore. Epis. Reg. Giffard, 82. 



8 Ibid. 82. Ibid. 96. 

 10 Ibid. 266. " Ibid. 299. 

 " Wore. Epis. Reg. Cobham, fol. 86. 



13 Ibid. Orlton, fol. 46. 

 " Ibid. Bransford, ii, fol. 17. 

 16 Ibid. Brian, i, fol. 1 1. 

 16 Ibid. fol. 21. 



William le White, 1356," exchanged 1357 18 



Walter Launce, 1358 19 



Nicholas Geoffrey, I364, 20 exchanged 1370" 



Thomas Munday, 1370^ 



Thomas Bristow, resigned 1401 23 



Thomas Thame, I40I, 24 exchanged 1 404^ 



Reginald Powy, resigned 1406 26 



Thomas Calle, 1406," resigned 1409^ 



William Rande, 1409," resigned I4I4 30 



John Talbot, I4I4 31 



Richard Wude or Ward, 1422 32 



Richard Vele, I45I 33 



Richard Roos, I455, 34 resigned 1465 35 



Thomas Campden, 1465 36 



John Campden, ob. i486 37 



John Wiche, 1486 38 



William Wall, ob. 15 n 39 



Robert Davell, 1 5 1 1 , 40 resigned 1 5 1 2 41 



John Mogryche, 1 5 1 2 4Z 



A seal of the thirteenth century represents our 

 Lord with nimbus, seated on a throne, lifting up 

 the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a 

 book. 43 



42. THE HOSPITAL OF 

 LORWING 



The hospital of Lorwing, between Berkeley 

 and Dursley, was founded for a master and 

 brethren by Maurice of Berkeley I between 

 1170 and iiSg. 44 It had but a brief exist- 

 ence, for in 1225 Thomas of Berkeley I, the 

 son of the founder, gave the endowment to 

 the prior of Stanley St. Leonard, a cell of 

 Gloucester, on condition that the abbot of 

 Gloucester renounced all claims to the church 

 of Slimbridge. 46 



17 Ibid. 



18 Ibid. fol. 23. 



19 Ibid. 



20 Ibid. Whittlesey, fol. 4. 



S1 Pat. 44 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 8. 



" Ibid. 



' Wore. Epis. Reg. Clifford, fol. IO//. 



21 Ibid. fol. 10 d. " 5 Ibid. fol. 22 d. 

 26 Ibid. fol. 88. v Ibid. fol. 88. 

 29 Ibid. Peverell, fol. 1 6. 



29 Ibid. fol. 1 6. Ibid. fol. 



31 Ibid. fol. 64^. 



32 Ibid. Morgan, fol. 8. 



33 Ibid. Carpenter, i, fol. 94. 

 "Ibid. fol. 131. 



35 Ibid. fol. 191. 



36 Ibid. t7 Ibid. Alcock, fol. 162. 

 35 Ibid. fol. 162. 



39 Ibid. Silvester de Giglis, fol. 71 d. 



40 Ibid, fol. 7 id. " Ibid. fol. 84. 



42 Ibid. fol. 84. 



43 Birch, Catalogue of Seals in British Museum, i, 645. 



44 Tanner, Notitia Monastica (ed. 1744), 148 ; 

 Smyth, Lives of the Berkeley! (ed. Maclean), i, 69. 



46 Smyth, op. cit. 69. 



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