RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



the site of this priory stands a public-house, which 

 is still called the ' Hermitage.' * 



Priors of Weybridge 



Robert,^ c. 1272 



Hugh,' occurs 1286 



Humphrey,^ died 1308 



Matthew de Horsey,* appointed 1308 



Nicholas,^ occurs 1321 



Matthew de Horseye,' collated 1323 



Lawrence de Billockby,* elected 1328 



Adam de Hykelyng,' 13 — 



Robert de Martham,^" elected 1333 



William de Acle," elected 1340 



John de Bayton,^^ occurs 1379 



Robert de Reppes,'^ elected 1396 



John Norwich [alias Boket),'^ elected 1428 



Robert Norwich,'* elected 1452 



William Parker,^^ occurs 1476 



Peter Clark," occurs i486 



"William Basset,^* 1492 



Robert Chambers," 1508 



John Bokenham,^" 1509 



John Caune,"' resigned 1520 



Edmund Larke,"^ elected 15 20 



Andrew Waleys,^' 153° 



Anthony Derby,^* alias Bludde, 1532 



38. THE PRIORY OF WORMEGAY 



The Austin priory of Wormegay, dedicated to 

 the honour of the Blessed Virgin, the Holy 

 Cross, and St. John the Evangelist, was founded 

 by William de Warenne in the reign of 

 Richard I. 



The prior and convent of the church of the 

 Holy Cross, Wormegay, obtained licence for 

 alienation in mortmain in 1355 of the manor of 

 West Dereham from John de Houton, chap- 

 lain, of a messuage, 40 acres of land, 5 acres 

 of pasture, and 5s. of rent in Fordamhithe, 

 &c., from Gilbert de Hethill, parson of the 

 church of Tottenhill ; and of 10 acres of land 

 and a moiety of a messuage in Great Sechithe, 



' R. Taylor, Index Monastkus, 27. 

 ' Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. xi, 92. 

 ' Ibid. 



* Pat. 2 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 20. 



* Norw. Epis. Reg. i, 29. 



^ Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. xi, 93. 



' Norw. Epis. Reg. i, 10 1. 



^ Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. xi, 93. 



» Ibid. 



'» Norw. Epis. Reg. ii, 64. 

 " Ibid, iii, 41. 



'« Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. xi, 93. 

 " Norw. Epis. Reg. vi, 227. 

 " Ibid, ix, 30. 

 '^ Ibid, xi, 66. 



" Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. xi, 93. 

 " Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. 



« Ibid. " Ibid. " Ibid. 



^ Ibid. '' Ibid. 



from John Simand, chaplain, to find two of the 

 canons as chaplains to celebrate daily mass in 

 their church for the souls of Roger Carpel and 

 his ancestors and heirs, and for the souls of the 

 three donors.^* In the same year the priory 

 received a grant of 10 marks of rent from John 

 Bardolf of Wormegay, on condition of finding 

 three canons for daily mass for the souls of his 

 ancestors.-^ In 1337 the priory had licence for 

 the appropriation of a moiety of the church of 

 Fordamhithe of their advowson.^' 



A mandate was issued by Innocent VI, in 

 I355j to the prior of Pentney, and two others to 

 cause the ordinances touching apostates to be 

 observed in regard to John de Valington, canon 

 of Wormegay, who had left his order to come to 

 the Roman court; and now desired to be recon- 

 ciled to it.^^ 



Licence was granted by Richard II, on 

 23 January, 1388, to the sub-prior and convent 

 to hold a new election on the death of Prior 

 Robert de Fordham ; the patronage of the 

 priory was at that time in the hands of the 

 crown, owing to the minority of Thomas Bar- 

 dolf, whose ancestor was the founder.^^ On 

 8 February the king intimated to the bishop his 

 assent to the election of Hugh de Fyncham, one 

 of the canons, as prior.'" For another eighty 

 years this poor house continued to struggle on, but 

 in 1468 its poverty was such that the bishop of 

 Norwich united it to the priory of Pentney, of 

 which, from that date, it was reckoned a cell. 



Priors of Wormegay 



Ralph,'' occurs before 1234 

 Nicholas,'^ occurs before 1286 

 John de Boylound,'' 1300 

 Nicholas de Elme,''' 1302 

 Robert de Craneworth,'* elected 1315 

 John de Cauntley,'^ elected 1330 

 Simon de Leverington,'' elected 1349 

 Michael de Thornham,'* elected 1349 

 Robert de Ford ham,'' elected 1370 

 Hugh de Fincham,'"' elected 1388 

 Hugh Watlington,*' elected 1 41 6 

 Robert Walsyngham,^^ elected 1448 

 John Methwold,^' elected 146 1 



" Ca!. of Pat. 9 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 6. 



'"^ Ibid. pt. ii, m. 27. 



" Pat. 1 1 Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. 25. An irregularity 

 as to this appropriation was condoned in 1347 ; Pat. 

 21 Edw. Ill, pt. iv, m. 9. 



-'* Cal. Papal Reg. iii, 57. 



*^ Pat. 1 1 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 3. 



^° Ibid. pt. ii, m. 36. 



" Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. vii, 500. 



'^ Ibid. '^ Ibid. =" Ibid. 



'* Norw. Epis. Reg. i, 61. 



"= Ibid, ii, 237. ^' Ibid, iv, 94. 



^Mbid. 116. ^' Ibid, vi, 2. 



*" Ibid. 128. <■ Ibid, viii, 610. 



" Ibid, xi, 17. " Ibid. 128. 



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