RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Shoaldhani, &c^ to maintain a lamp to imra 

 daflj in the church and to saj a. collect at masses 

 for their souk and their parens' souls.* 



Pardon was granted to the priory in 1313 on 

 pajment of the heavy fine of 40 marks for 

 ^propriating in mortmain without licence the 

 church of Stanford, which was at their potroo- 

 age.* It had been appropriated in 1 30 1, and was 

 the gift of William Mortimer of Attleborough. 

 The ordination of the ricaiage and leave to 

 appropriate were duly granted and roistered by 

 the bishc^ but dvil sancdao had either been 

 forgotten or deUberatdy overlocdced on account 

 of the attendant expense. 



The rectory of Fincham St. Martin was 

 appropriated to the priory and a vicarage ordainec 

 in 1350. For obtaining the bishop's assent a 

 penaon of 26s. SJ. was assigned to him and his 

 successors.' The pri«y paid 100s. to the king 

 in 1386 tor licence to iM^d oonsideTable lands in 

 Shouldham for cdebrating yearly in their priory 

 church the obits of Guy de Beaucfaamp, knight, 

 and Philippa his wife, deceased, and of Katharine 

 their daughter when she had departed this life.^ 



Robert de SjTTngton occurs as prior -- 

 10 July, 1387, when his signature was apper. _ 

 to a deed securing a pension c£ 2y. 4.: - : 

 bishop of Norwich cm the appn^xiatior. : i 

 <±urch of Holy Trinitr, Caister, which had been 

 granted to the priory by Lord Bardoif.^ Pope 

 Boniface in 1392 confirmed the appropriation of 

 Caister church, valued at 40 marks, the priory 

 being valued at 200 marks. The confiimatioa 

 states that the other priory buildings had been 

 recently overthrown, almost from their founda- 

 tions, by floods of river and sea {sfmmrmm et wuri- 

 iim t n i m Jbctiaam), by fires, and a great gale, and 

 its possessions in great part destroyed. A fitting 

 portion was to be assigned for a vicar, who was 

 to be a secular clerk.* 



A return made to the crown of the appro- 

 priated churches of this diocese in 1416 names 

 three churches appropriated to Shouldham Priory, 

 •viz. Stanford, Fincham St. Martin (1350), and 

 H<Jy Trinity, Caister (1387) ; the priory held 

 also at that date the advowson of the churches 

 of Carleion St. Peter, Sttie All Saints, Were- 

 ham, Shouldham, and Wiggenhall St. Peter. 



John Edmund, he being then prior, was insti- 

 tuted to the rectorv of Fincham St. Michael on 

 iS Februarv, 1502, on the presentarion of Castle 

 Acre Priory ; he died in 15C4. 



Robert Swift was prior in 1535 when the 

 Valor Ecclesiasricus was drawn up ; the clear 

 annual value of the priory was then declared at 



£138 iSi. Id. 



A commission was granted in 12S1 to uiquire 



' Pal. iS Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 2. 



» Csl r P^- - Edw. II, pt. i, m. 5. 



' Blomeield. Hist, sf Strf. vii, 424. 



• Pat. 10 Ric II. pt. i. m. 25. 



• Blomefidd, Hist. »/ KtrrZ vii, -i:4.-f. 



• CdLP^Rig. iv^43S.' 



into 

 alt, 

 ct_ 

 bv ; 



of Ridsid ^lailBe, wim 

 red at the door of the 



--'-nned and imprisooed 



: - - im. Brother John 



— - - are named ; 



^ons came to 



: e - ±e doors, 



I- :;54 there 



: V - same complainant 



- ' i,-:rsr Nirhnbs., prior 



F:tz I otm, who W2S 2t;: 



was c: t-i 



• > arwicx^ named 



::!lich2id,Lofd 



r fewmdfT 



I, left 



to wbooi (or rather t _ snt) 



-; -- - — "" "r marks.* 



~' —P. eari 



-ift to Maigz' 



-.: I-- -it Montfort, rir _ ; .:: _: 



Si" ; - .~ . a ring, a covered cup, and 4c marks. 

 H : bequeathed to Katharine, da- : - . 



Guv ^wfao had pre-deceased hiir. 

 s gtdd ring and £2C. 

 _- : - : , who made his will bet- : 



to the wars, and died in France in 135 

 his fourth best ring to his daughter the nun 

 Katharine, and the church of Necton to tfae 

 priory to serre fat the maintenance of Elatfaarine 

 and Elizabedi his two dangfateis, and after their 

 death as sdpend for a priest to say daily mass fer 

 tfae souls of his &tfaer and ntocher, hircs^If. xr.d 

 his wife and his daughters.** 



Thoooas Beaucfaamp, earl oi V~ 



succeeded his &ther of the same r—ii,, ::._ 



the displeasure of Richard 11 in 1397— 8, was 

 banished to the Isle of ^lan and fbrfoted his 

 estates ; whereupon his niece Katharine, the 

 nun of Shouldham, petitioned die king in her 

 own behalf as harii^ had no ^lare in her father's 

 inheritaiKre, with the result that an annuity of 

 40 marks was granted her from the exchequer, 

 which, of course, went to the coorent. Her 

 uncle, die eail, died in 1400, and instructed hk 

 executors to bestow some suitable sift upon 

 Katharine.*^ 



In 1 32 1 a straaje and fetal accicent occurred 

 at this Gilbertine house. One cf the canor*, 

 William de Spalding bv name, was plaving at 

 football ; during the game a lav friend ot his, 

 also called William, ran against him and woimded 

 himself on a sheathed knite carried by the canon, 

 with the result that he died within six cays. 

 No blame was attached to tjie canon, who felt 



' Pat. 9 Edw. I, m. 1 2. Tnis cause was sdll p«:nd- 

 ing ia 1292 (Pat. 20 Edw. I, m. 13). 

 - C^ tfPtt. 22 Edw. I, m. 12 i. 

 ' Dngdale, Ac-wjgr, i, 226, 229. 

 » Ibid. 



:,^, s,,. 



Kd. 2:;. 



Ibid. 



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