A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



chantry of Robert Greyndour on the resignation of John Clifford. For forty 

 years Jane and her second husband survived. Sir John Barre, in right of his 

 wife, presented, on 30 October, I457, 1 * t ' ie perpetual chantry in honour 

 of St. John Baptist and St. Nicholas,' Richard Devyn on the death of 

 William Coburley. Devyn resigned in less than two years, and was 

 succeeded by Edward Janyns, chaplain, admitted 3 to the chantry of Robert 

 Greyndour on 20 July, 1459. On 7 December, 1463, Sir William Phen 

 was appointed on the resignation of Janyns. On 5 June, 1465," Philip ap 

 Eynon succeeded on the death of Phen. Ap Eynon was no doubt a scion 

 of the Ap Eynons who became Baynhams, and were prospective inheritors of 

 Newland and Mitcheldean, for on 2 December, 1485, Thomas Stokes, 

 vicar of Lydney, exchanged that vicarage with Sir Philip Baynham, and 

 was admitted to the chantry of St. John Baptist and St. Nicholas, called 

 Greyndours, on the presentation of Thomas Baynham, esquire, and Alice his 

 wife. Sir John Barre had died 14 January, 1482-3,* and Jane his wife on 

 17 June, 1485. By her will dated 3 February, 1484-5," proved 23 July, 

 1485, she directed her body to be buried in the chapel of St. John the 

 Baptist and St. Nicholas, by the side of the husband of her youth, Robert 

 Greyndour, the vicar was ' tenderly to pray in his daily masse and in his 

 pulpitt for my soule and for myn husbandes' soules,' while ' a devout secular 

 prest ' was to ' sing in my chapel at Newlond 3 yeres continually ... to say 

 every day 6 psalms and 1 5 psalms with the litany, placebo and dirige with 

 9 lessons and commendations, for 12 marks (j8), while another priest was 

 ' to say for my soul especially, during a whole year, St. Gregory's trentall 

 with all the observances and fastings that pertain thereto' for 10. The 

 fact that these were to be additional priests shows that the testatrix was 

 aware that her own perpetual chantry priest would not be able to spare the 

 time from his scholastic duties for all those special observances. Gorgeous 

 plate, however, vestments, yellow velvet, white damask, russet satin, purple 

 and yellow, she gave to the altar of St. John the Baptist and St. Nicholas, 

 ' the which is my own chapel,' and ' to Sir Philip Beynham, my chantry 

 priest, my fair little portues 8 of the Salisbury use covered with green 

 cloth, lying for the most part in my parlour window in a bag ; a book 

 which is called Pupilla ocuti, the which the said Philip hath in his keeping, 

 my calendar, a great flat rose-piece of silver with a cover to the same of 

 silver, and 10 in money.' The Pupilla oculi sacerdotis, though credited to 

 a chancellor of Cambridge University, was not a school-book, but a religious 

 book. Robert and Jane Greyndour's only daughter Elizabeth had married 

 John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester, but had predeceased her mother, dying on 

 i September, 1452. The inheritance went to Alice, granddaughter of 

 William Walwayn, who had married Jane Greyndour, Robert's only sister. 

 Alice Walwayn married Thomas Baynham, and by this marriage reunited 

 the severed moieties of the manor of Mitcheldean and brought Newland into 

 the Baynham family. In 1502 we learn that John Alexander was the 

 chaplain of the chantry from a lease by him still in possession of Mr. R. 



1 Heref. Epis. Reg. Stanbery, fol. 37. 



'Ibid. fol. 57. The name of the chaplain appears from St. John Maclean's list to be omitted in the 

 institution ; but it is mentioned on the appointment of his successor. 



1 Ibid. fol. 81. Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. IV, No. 39. 



1 P.C.C. 1 6 Logge. ' Portiforium,' or portable prayer-book, breviary. 



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