A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



of your advancement,' he adds, 'I should be 

 sorry to use myself unbecomingly.' ^ 



The county commissioners for suppression 

 reported of Horsham, in 1536, that it was* a 

 hede howse of thordre of seynt Benett' ; that the 

 clear annual value was ^^163 13J. ; that there 

 were only four religious, all priests, ' whereof the 

 priour hath a dyspensacion and ys a suffrican and 

 bysshoppe of Thetford and the residue requyre 

 dispensaciones ' ; that the neighbours' report of 

 them was all to their credit ; that there were 

 eighteen dependent on the house besides the 

 monks, one of whom was a priest, six waiting 

 servants, and eleven hinds who had wages, 

 clothes, and ' levynges of the howse ' ; that the 

 buildings, with lead and bells, were worth ;^250, 

 and the church and cloister were in good repair ; 

 that the movable goods and cattle and corn 

 were worth ^^69 15X. lid.; that ^15 6s. 8d. 

 was owing to the house, and ^^35 4.S. owed by 

 the house ; and that there were 100 acres of 

 wood worth ^200.^ 



On 18 August, 1536, Richard Southwell 

 wrote to Cromwell as to 'the house of Saint 

 Feythe now viewed and at a point to be dis- 

 solved.' He specially wrote in favour of the 

 prior there, who being a suffragan bishop had 

 neither house nor living, and prayed that he 

 might receive an adequate pension and some 

 other preferment.' 



On 23 September Cromwell wrote to the 

 prior that the king intended to reform the houses 

 of religion in Norwich diocese ; for the abuse of 

 religion and excess of living certain were to be 

 deposed, of which St. Faith's had been billed and 

 named to be one. However, through the labour 

 of the prior's friends and his (Cromwell's) own 

 diligence, his house had been taken out of the 

 king's books, and was now free from danger till 

 the return of his chaplain, the bearer of the 

 letter, whom he was to receive and treat 

 well.* 



According to a certificate of the four Norfolk 

 commissioners, dated 27 January, 1537, all the 

 goods and chattels of the house were sold for 

 j^27 Js. li., and the plate, valued at ^^37 2s. 2d,, 

 reserved in the custody of Richard Southwell. 

 The debts of the house amounted to ^35 4.S. Sd.^ 



Immediately after its suppression the priory, 

 with its demesne lands, the manors of Horsham 

 and West Rudham, and the rectories of Hor- 

 sham and Tibenham were granted on lease, 

 to Richard Southwell, one of the suppression 

 commissioners.' 



^ L. and P. Hen. Fill, ix, 271, 284, 291, 849, 

 «65. 



' Chant. Cert. Norf. No. 90. 



» L. and P. Hen. Fill, xi, 1 34. 



* Ibid. 197. There seems some doubt as to the 

 ■genuineness of this letter ; it is neither in Cromwell's 

 Land nor in that of his clerk. 



' Suppression Papers (P.R.O.), &^. 



^ Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. ccix, fol. loSb ; ccx, fol. 75. 



Prior Sarisbury, or Salisbury, was made dean 

 of Norwich, and in 1570 bishop of Man. 



Priors of St. Faith, Horsham 



Austorgius,' occurs c. 1125 

 Savernius,' occurs in 1 1 30 

 Bertrand,' occurs c. 11 45 

 Bernard,^" occurs 11 63 

 Deodate,'^ occurs 12 10 

 Eustace,^" occurs 1227 

 Berengar,^' occurs 1246 

 Carbunel,''' occurs 1268 

 Reymund,^^ occurs 1 281 

 William,'^ occurs 1303 

 Hugh Targe,*' elected 1313 

 Pontius de Severa,** elected 1338 

 Hugh de Pardinos," elected 1349 

 Gerard Sencoll,^ elected 1349 

 Berengar Nathas,^* elected 1356 

 Thomas de Berthelet,-^ elected 1389 

 Geoffrey Langele,^' elected 1401 

 Nicholas,-* occurs 1452 

 Ralf Norwich,^* 1462 

 John Risley,-' 1469, 1492 

 William Castleton,^' occurs 1524 

 John Stokes,^^ occurs 1525 

 Lancelot Wharton,-' occurs 1532 

 John Sarisbury,^" occurs 1534 



An impression in red wax of the interesting 

 early thirteenth-century seal of this priory is 

 attached to the deed of acknowledgement of 

 supremacy." It is oval (2^ X if in.), and is 

 divided into two parts ; the upper shows under 

 a simple canopy, a figure '" seated, with a sword, 

 or sceptre, in right hand, and an open book in 

 the left, on either side is a monk kneeling under 

 a pinnacled canopy, above which are two angels 

 censing the central figure ; at the top is shown 

 a cruciform church with central tower. The 



' Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. (Lothian MSS.), 10. 



^ Blomefield, Hisl. of Norf. x, 440. 



' Hii/. MSS. Com. Rej>. (Lothian MSS.), 12. 



'» Ibid. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. 



'' Ibid. ; called ' Belengar Carbunel ' in that year ; 

 Assize R. 560, m. 47. 



" Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. (Lothian MSS.), 7. 



'* Blomefield, loc. cit. 



" Pat. 31 Edw. I, m. 28. 



" Norvv. Epis. Reg. i, 54. 



"Ibid, iii, 12. "Ibid, iv, 115. 



" Ibid. " Ibid, v, 17. 



" Ibid, vi, 139. " Ibid. 267. 



-' Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. x, 440. 



^- Ibid. '' Ibid. 



" Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. (Lothian MSS.), 20. 



" Ibid. " Ibid. 



"• Dep. Keeper's Rep. vii, App. No. 94. 



" Ackn. of Supr. (P.R.O.), No. 94. 



" The figure is apparently female but is much like 

 that of Christ as shown on the early seals of the 



bishops of Chichester ; there seems, however, to 

 no nimbus. 



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