A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



ham and the abbot and convent of St. Salvia's of 

 Monsterol, acting for the priory of St. Winwaloe. 



According to the taxation of 1 29 1 the priory 

 held lands in three Norfolk parishes of the 

 annual value of ^"j 2s. 8d. 



In 1 32 1 the abbot and convent of Monsterol 

 sold this priory to Hugh Scarlet of Lincoln, and 

 by him it was conveyed to Elizabeth de Burgo, 

 Domine de Clare, the foundress of Clare College, 

 Cambridge. In 1336 this lady conveyed the 

 manor and lands of the priory to the abbot and 

 convent of Dereham on condition of their find- 

 ing a chaplain to say daily mass in the chapel of 

 St. Winwaloe for the souls of Gilbert, earl of 

 Clare, and of Elizabeth and her ancestors and 

 heirs for ever.^ Ten years later Elizabeth 

 granted the custody of ' La Chapele de Saint 

 Wynewale ' to her well-beloved friend, John de 

 Brauncestre.^ 



At the dissolution the manor of Winwaloe, 

 late belonging to the abbey of Wereham, came 

 to the crown, and was granted in the first in- 

 stance to Thomas Guybon and William Mynn. 



124. THE PRIORY OF WITCHING- 

 HAM 



Walter Giffard, earl of Buckingham, granted 

 to the Cluniac monks of the priory of St. Faith, 



' Ca/. of Pal. 10 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 22. 



* There is a brief abstract of eleven charters rela- 

 tive to ' Wynewale Derham,' beginning with the 

 grant to Hugh Scarlet in 1321, in Add. MS. 6041, 

 fol. 86. 



Longueville, in the diocese of Rouen, the 

 manors of Great and Little Witchingham and 

 Weston, with the churches of All Saints, Weston ; 

 St. Mary, Great Witchingham ; and St. Faith, 

 Little Witchingham, together with various lands, 

 tithes, rents, and services in several other Norfolk 

 parishes. These grants were confirmed by 

 charter of Henry I, and subsequently by Walter 

 GifFard, son of the original donor and second 

 earl of Buckingham, and by Henry II.' 



The taxation roll of 1291 mentions portions 

 or pensions from the churches of Weston {£'\)t 

 Witchingham St. Faith's {£1)^ and Stratton 

 St. Michael's (13^. 4^.) among the spiritualities 

 pertaining to the priory of Longueville. The prior 

 and convent of Longueville drew ;^io 45. '^d. 

 per annum from the manor of Great Witching- 

 ham. In addition to the two Witchinghams 

 and Weston, they also had rents or lands at 

 Ringland, Helmingham, Swannington, Alderford, 

 Brandiston, Reepham, Corpusty, and Booton, 

 giving a total income in temporalities of 

 ^25 lOJ. i\\d. 



There was a small priory or cell of Cluniac 

 monks at Witchingham, who had the control of 

 the prior of Longueville's Norfolk possessions. 



This property reverted to the crown in 1414 

 on the dissolution of the alien houses, and was 

 granted to New College, Oxford, by Henry VI 

 in 1460. 



' Round, Cal. Doc. France, i, 74, 75, 77 ; Blome- 

 field. Hist, of Norf. viii, 298 ; Taylor, Index Mon- 

 astic us, 18. 



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