RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



and was ordered to be castigated, otherwise to 

 appear before the provincial chapter. The other 

 offender was brought before the visitor for defects 

 in singing the collects ; but he refused to ask 

 pardon, and was ordered to say the nocturn of the 

 psalter in cloister the same day after dinner, as 

 discipline. 



The bishop entered that everything else was 

 excellent, that there had been much progress in 

 the building of the church and conventual houses, 

 and that there was no debt.^ 



At the visitation of September, 1491, there 

 were six canons in addition to Abbot Skerning, 

 but one was a rebel. Thomas Milham, the rebel 

 of the last visitation, had not improved, but the 

 contrary ; he was sentenced to forty days of pen- 

 ance and to three years' absence at Sulby. The 

 abbot was ordered to raise the number of canons 

 to at least eight. ^ There was, however, no im- 

 provement in numbers when the bishop again 

 visited in 1494 ; the canons, including the abbot, 

 numbered six. On this occasion there were 

 various ritual injunctions, and John Barlyng, for 

 incontinency, was condemned to forty days' pen- 

 ance and two years at some other house.' 



At the visitation of 1 497, there were five 

 canons and two novices. On this occasion the 

 bishop found nothing worthy of correction ; the 

 house was not in debt, and was abundantly 

 supplied. The abbot was ordered to repair the 

 dormitory. Ave Maria Stella was to be sung 

 daily at evensong. 



The last recorded visitation of Bishop Redman 

 was in 1500, when there were six canons and two 

 novices. The visitor found that all was delight- 

 ful.^ In 1536 the secret comperta of Legh and 

 Leyton allege incontinency against the abbot. ^ 



Later in the same year the county commis- 

 sioners reported that the abbot and convent had 

 leased, on i November, 1534, a large portion of 

 their lands and possessions for ninety-nine years 

 to Richard Southwell (one of the commissioners) 



and Robert Logan. They found at the house 

 * religious persones and all prystes who done Re- 

 quire Capasities ; Ther name ys nott goode.' 

 There were also two hinds and ten servants at 

 the abbey. The lead and bells were worth 

 j^ioo, but the house was in much decay. The 

 goods were worth £12 8^ ()d. but the house owed 

 j^66 1"]!. iidJ^ According to the same com- 

 missioners' certificate, dated 27 January, 1537, 

 the 'stufF' of this house contained in the inven- 

 tory was sold to Robert Logan for ;^ 1 3 6;. 8(/. ,• 

 the plate, valued at 415. 8^., was reserved in the 

 charge of Richard Southwell. 



On 6 February, 1537, ex- Abbot Thomas 

 Ellington was assigned a pension of iooj. in spite 

 of the charge of incontinency.' 



This small abbey was one of those whose dis- 

 solution was permitted by Clement VII's bull of 

 1528, and whose possessions were granted to 

 Cardinal Wolsey for the erection of his two 

 colleges. But Wolsey 's fall prevented that dis- 

 solution being carried out. Eventually, in 1546, 

 Henry VIII granted it to the dean and chapter 

 of Christ Church, Oxford, on its own foundation. 



Abbots of Wendling 



Nicholas,* appointed 1265,' occurs 1273 



Robert,'" occurs 1286 



John,^' resigned I 329 



William de Saxlingham,*^ elected 1329 



John de Norwich, '* died 1339 



John de Tytleshallc," elected 1339 



Thomas, occurs 1352 " 



John,'^ occurs 1377, 1398 



Ralph,^' 1425 



Edmund,^* 1432 



John Skerning,'^ elected 1 474 



Tliomas Walsoken,-" elected 1503 



Richard Rolston,"' elected 1504 



John York,^^ elected 1509 



George,^' occurs 1529 



Thomas Ellington,-^ occurs 1535, last abbot 



HOUSE OF KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS 



45. THE PRECEPTORY OF 

 CARBROOKE 



In the time of Henry II, Maud, countess of 

 Clare, gave the church of St. Peter, Great Car- 

 brooke, and of St. John Baptist, Little Carbrooke, 

 to the Knights Hospitallers, together with the 

 manor and other endowments. The house it- 

 self of the preceptory was dedicated to St. John 

 Baptist, with a chapel attached. The sixteen 

 stalls in the parish church of Great Carbrooke 

 were supposed by Blomefield to indicate the 



' Redman, Visit. (BoJl.) fol. 72. 



= Ibid. fols. 99, 100. ' Ibid. fols. 118, 124. 



-• Ibid. fol. 152. 



* L. and P. Hen. Fill, x, 143. 



number of Knights of the Order there resident ; 

 but this was an error, for the house was far 

 smaller, accommodating one knight or preceptor, 



" Chant. Cert. Norf. No. 90. 



' Aug. O. Bks. ccxxxli, 4^. 



« Pat. 6 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 25. ' Ibid. 



'" Tanner, Norw. MSS. i, 25 



" Norw. Epis. Reg. ii, 38. 



" Ibid. " Ibid, iii, 27. '* Ibid. 



" Assize R. 1450, m. 15. 



'" Blomefield, Hist of Norf. x, 90. 



" Norw. Epis. Reg. ix, 4. " Ibid. 58, 



" Blomefield, Hist, of Not f x, 90. 



'" Tanner, Norw. MSS. i, 136. 



" Ibid. '-' Ibid. 



»' L. and P. Hen. Vlll. iv, (3), 2699. 



" Valor Eccl. (Rcc. Com.) 



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