A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



other ornaments were duly repaired. Robert 

 Lokke said that their foundation members were 

 six, but that they were now dispensed from 

 keeping the full number. John Bushoppe gave 

 the warden an excellent character, and said that 

 the services were duly observed, but that the 

 number of boys was deficient.' 



The college was again visited on 2i July, 

 1526, when Master Rawlins was warden. The 

 warden acknowledged that he had not rendered 

 any account of receipts and payments, nor had 

 he any book of accounts. There were only 

 two brethren or fellows, Nicholas Marshall and 

 Richard Ramme. The former of these testified 

 that he had been a fellow for a year, and that 

 they had no chest for the common seal and 

 muniments according to the statute, nor was any 

 annual account rendered.^ 



Robert Audley was master in 1534. On 

 29 August of that year, the master, in conjunc- 

 tion with four chaplains, subscribed to the 

 acknowledgement of the king's supremacy.' 



When the Valor Ecclesiasticus was drawn up 

 in 1535, the total annual value was ^^63 6;. lofi^., 

 but there were many outgoings, and the clear 

 value was only £^2 i$s. j^d. 



The college was suppressed, and its site and 

 revenues assigned to Sir Edward Knevitt in 

 1 541 ;* but in the following year Sir Edward 

 sold these possessions to John Maynard, mercer, 

 of London.' 



Masters of Thompson College 



The names of the masters (save the first) are 

 those given by Blomefield, slightly corrected by 

 the episcopal registers. 



John Sporle,' 1349 



John Grene, 1353, re-chosen 1368 



Stephen Feltham, 1356 



Alexander de Horsted, 1378 



Thomas Bushell, 1419 



John Mayster, 1425 



Robert Swetenham, 1425 



Roger Philpot, 1432 



William Bettys, 1439 



Peter Lock, 1474 



John Whitterd, 1487 



Ambrose Ede, 1490 



John Wyatt, 1503 



John Purpett, occurs 15 14' 



Richard Alday, alias Hoke, 1 5 1 8 



Robert Dikar, 15 19 



Roger Rawlins, 1524 



Robert Audley, 1534 



The fine fourteenth-century seal (2^ in. by 

 i\ in.) of this college bears St. Martin dividing 

 his cloak with the beggar ; in the base under a 

 pointed arch, are the five chaplains of the house 

 kneeling, between two shields of the arms of the 

 founder (Shardelowe), on a chevron, between 

 three cross-crosslets fitchews an estoile. Legend : 



s' COMMUNE COLLEGII ; DE TOMUSTONE ' 



ALIEN HOUSES 



116. THE PRIORY OF DOCKING' 



The endowment charter of Eton College men- 

 tions the alien priory of Docking. It was a small 

 cell of the Benedictine abbey of Ivry in France, 

 to which house the church was appropriated. 

 It was dissolved with other alien priories by the 

 Parliament of Leicester in 1415, and was at first 

 granted to Joan, the queen-dowager of England. 



117. THE PRIORY OF FIELD 

 DALLING 

 In 1 138 James de Sancto Hylario gave to the 

 abbey of the Holy Trinity, Savigny, in the 

 diocese of Avranches, 10 librates of land with 

 their appurtenances in Field-Dalling (Dallenges), 

 with the consent of Avelina his wife and Peter 

 his brother, for his weal and for the souls of his 

 predecessors and successors. Two years later 

 King Stephen addressed a confirmation charter of 

 this grant to the bishop of Norwich and his 



' Jcssopp, Norw. Visit. (Camd. Soc), 92-93. 

 ' Ibid. 246. 



' Dep. Keeper's Rep. vii, App. 2. 

 * Pat. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. vi, m. 4. 

 ' Ibid. 34 Hen. VIII, pt. x, m. I. 

 ' Blomefield, Hist. ofNorf. x, 367 ; Dugdale, Mon. 

 ti, 1057 ; Taylor, InJex Monastic us, 4. 



oflScials.''' In the reign of Henry II, Roger earl of 

 Clare also confirmed the grant, and it was subse- 

 quently ratified by Maud his daughter and heiress.^' 



In 1 147 the abbey of Savigny adopted the 

 Cistercian rule. The monks from Savigny who 

 came to Field Dalling were of that order. 

 Tanner says that Field Dalling was sometimes 

 mentioned as a priory by itself, and sometimes 

 as a parcel of the priory of Long Bennington, 

 Lincoln, which was another cell of Savigny. 



The taxation roll of 1 29 1 gives the annual 

 value of the land, rents, mill, and other manorial 

 rights at Field Dalling pertaining to the abbey 

 of Savigny at ^21 10;. 3^;^. ; the abbey also held 

 in Norfolk, as pertaining to the cell of Field 

 Dalling, i8j. 8i. ; rents at Norwich, £2 41. 5^^.; 

 land and rents at Saxlingham ; and ^^d. rents at 

 Hindringham, yielding a total of jr24 14/. \\d. 



An extent or survey of this cell was taken in 

 1325 by command of Edward II, when the jury 



' Norw. Epis. Reg. iv, 1 19. 



* Jessopp, Nortv. Visit. 191. 



' B.M. Ixix, 49 ; Dugdale, Mort. vi, 1460 ; 

 Blomefield, Hist. o/Norf. i, 630. 



'" Round, Ca/. Doc. France, i, 291, where the 

 originals in the archives of Mortain are cited. 



" Blomefield, Hist. o/Nor/. ix, 221. 



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