RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



preceptory, temp. Henry VIII, probably of the 

 year of its suppression, gives the value of the 

 rectory of Carbrooke at los. lod. ; the rents of 

 assize,;^! 5 31. ^^d. ; the manor farm,;ri5 4$. 8rf. ; 

 the foldcourse for 200 sheep, 30J. ; and the 

 court perquisites 20s} 



The site of the house, the manor and the 

 rectory were granted in 1543 to Sir Richard 

 Gresham and Sir Richard Southwell. 



Sisters Hospitallers of Little Carbrooke 



Maud, countess of Clare, at the same time 

 that she established the preceptory of Knights 



Hospitallers at Great Carbrooke, placed some 

 sisters of their Order in a hospital near the 

 church of Little Carbrooke. But very soon after 

 their foundation, namely, in 1 180, Henry II 

 gave the order the monastery of Buckland, 

 Somerset, on the condition that they should there 

 place all the English Sisters Hospitallers, wlio 

 had previously lived in several preceptories. 

 Henceforth Buckland was the only English 

 house for these sisters, those of Little Carbrooke 

 being at once transferred there. From Little 

 Carbrooke 13J. ^d. was paid as an annual pension 

 to the Somerset nunnery ; that sum appears in 

 the Valor of 1535.* 



FRIARIES 



46. THE CARMELITE FRIARS OF 

 BLAKENEY 



At Blakeney alias Sniterley, a house of White 

 Friars, dedicated to the honour of the Blessed 

 Virgin, was established in 1296, when John and 

 Michael Storm and John and Thomas Thobury, 

 copyhold tenants of Sir William Roos, lord of 

 the town, gave 13^ acres of land to the Car- 

 melities, with the consent of the king and the 

 lord. The friars were to build a chapel and 

 necessary buildings on the site, and to pray for 

 Sir William Roos and Lady Maud his wife, as 

 their principal founders. Sir William gave them 

 100 marks towards building their church and 

 houses, and promised to build their hall and 

 kitchen, as well as proper chambers suitable for 

 him and his heirs whenever they should think 

 proper to stay there. ^ The church and all the 

 offices were not completed until 1 32 1.' 



Pardon was granted to the Carmelites of 

 Blakeney, in 131 6, for acquiring in mortmain 

 without licence, li acres of land from Michael 

 Bret, with leave to extend their dwellings and 

 build thereon.* 



These friars were evidently prospering, for 

 there were several other enlargements of their 

 site. Thus in 1 33 1 licence was granted to the 

 prior and convent to receive in mortmain from 

 John Tolour the younger and Richard Storm 

 4 acres adjoining their house.' 



In 1337 John Storm granted to the prior and 

 Carmelite Friars of Sniterley 4 acres of land for 

 the enlargement of their house,* and fifteen 

 years later there was yet another extension.' 



This house was suppressed towards the close 



' Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), Portf. ||. 

 ' Tanner, Notitia, Norf. viii ; Blomefield, Hist, of 

 Korf. ix, 365. 



' Steven, Continuation ofMon. vol. ii, App. 454. 



* Pat. 9 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 25. 



' Ibid. 5 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 23. 



* Ibid. I I Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 23. 

 ' Ibid. 26 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 6. 



of 1538.' In February, 1542, the king granted 

 the house and site to William Rede, mercer of 

 London, and Anne his wife ; but in the following 

 month Rede transferred it to Sir Richard 

 Gresham.'" 



Among the spoils of church plate from the 

 suppressed Norfolk houses were ' 100 oz. gilt 

 and 54 oz. white, with two paxes of ivory' from 

 the White Friars of Blakeney." 



47. THE CARMELITE FRIARS OF 

 BURNHAM NORTON 



A house of Carmelite or White Friars was 

 founded in 124 1 by Sir William Calthorp and 

 Sir Ralph Hemenhale in the parish of Burnham 

 Norton.'^ In 1298 the prior and convent of 

 Carmelite Friars of Burnham had licence for 

 the alienation to them by Walter de Calthorp 

 (son of one of the founders) of a rood of meadow 

 for the enlargement of their house." In 1353, 

 they obtained another licence for further en- 

 largement.'* 



Thomas Gigges, of Burnham St. Clement, by 

 will of 1 1 March, 1467, left a small bequest in 

 money to the Carmelite priory of Burnham,'* and 

 other members of his family followed his ex- 

 ample, another Thomas Gigges in 1505 leaving 

 to the friars of Burnham 6j. Ba'., ' that is to say, 

 to the prior 1 2d., and to every friar being a 

 priest 4^., and to every novice 2(/., and to their 

 pittance \2d.y they to keep a solemn dirige and 

 a mass for my soul and all my friends' souls at 

 my burying.''^ The will of Olive Gigges, 

 widow, made in 151Q mentions a bequest of 

 6 combs of barley to ' the whight friers of 



* Taylor, InJe.x Monasticus, 34. 



' L. and P. Hen. nil, xiii (2), 508. 



'» Ibid, xvii, 104 (69). 



" Ibid. 139. 



'" Brit, jintiq. at Forw. v, 406. 



" Pat. 26 Edw. I, m. 13. 



'* Ibid. 27 Edw. HI, pt. ii, m. 2. 



" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 5971. 



'Mbid. 12778. 



425 



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