A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



Hugh, resigned Ii86 77 



William, occurs 1 195 78 



Alexander, 1201 79 



Humbert, occurs 1202-7 M 



Stephen, c. 121 7-20 81 



Hugh, c. 1 220 to r. 1234 s2 



Albert occurs I23&, 83 died 1244** 



Guichardde la Osaye, 85 1 244-8 M 



William Russhelin, Ruisselun, 1248-56 86 



William de Foville, 1257-68 87 



Miles de Columbiers, 1268-74 M 



Peter de Villiaco, May-November, 1275*' 



John de Thyenges, 1 276-84" 



John of Avignon, 1285-98 91 



John of Newcastle, 1298-1301 92 



Stephen de Sancto Romano, 1302 to c. I3O5 93 



John de Monte Martini, c. 1309-24" 



Adam of Winchester, 1325-7 96 



Peter de Joceaux, 1 327-44 9a 



John de Janicuria, Jacourt, 1 344-9 97 



77 Elected to Reading this year ; Ann. Man. (Rolls 

 Ser.), ii, 244. 



79 Feet off. (Suss. Rec. Soc.), No. 2. He confirmed 

 to Thomas the clerk the chapel of Lordington by 

 consent of Bishop Seffrid (1180-1204). Thomas 

 died in 1229 ; Bracton, Note Book (ed. Maitland), 



35- 



79 Rec. ofCluni, i, 99. 



60 Feet ofF. (Suss. Rec. Soc.), No. 60 (given in error 

 as Hubert) ; Cott. MS. Vesp. F. xv, fol. 284. 



81 Feet of F. (Suss. Rec. Soc.), Nos. 140-4. During 

 progress of a suit in Trinity term 1220 the prior was 

 summoned to Cluny and caused to resign ; Bracton, 

 Note Book (ed. Maitland), 1395. 



M Occurs in 1224 ; Feet of F. (Suss. Rec. Soc.), 

 No. 189. Also in 1230; Anct. D., A 217 ; and in other 

 charters as late as 1234 ; Suss. Arch. Coll. iii, 195. 



83 Cott. MS. Vesp. F. xv, fol. 154. 



84 Suss. Arch. Coll. ii. 24. 



65 Ibid. ; in 1248 he contested payment of tithes to 

 Cluny. 



** Suss. Arch. Coll. ii, 25, 27 ; iii, 196. 



87 Ibid, ii, 27, 29 ; iii, 197. 



ss Ibid. ; he became prior of Vezelay. 



89 Ibid. ; became prior of St. Martin, Paris. 



"Ibid, ii, 31, 35 ; iii, 198. 



91 Ibid. ; upon his death his breviary, cope, and 

 palfrey, were sent to the abbot of Cluny according to 

 the custom of the order ; Duckett, Rec. of Cluni, \, 



I 12. 



91 Details of his election are given, ibid. 112-14; 

 Suss. Arch. Coll. ii, 37 ; iii, 198. 



93 Ibid. The last reference to this prior is in April, 

 1305, when he was setting out for Rome and appointed 

 attorneys to act during his absence ; Pat. 33 Edw. I, 

 pt. i, m. 7. 



94 His name first appears in a deed of 2 Edw. II ; 

 Cott. MS. Vesp. F. xv, fol. 90. His death occurred 

 before 24 September, 1324; Close 18 Edw. II, 



* Intruded by the pope, see above. 



96 Ann. Lewenses (Dep. Keeper Rep. xlvi, App. ii, 

 66) ; he apparently died abroad, as he was buried at 

 Baume, a Cluniac abbey in Besan9on. 



97 See above, and Suss. Arch. Coll. iii, 201. 



Hugh de Chyntriaco, 1349-62 98 



Gerald Rothonis, occurs 1363" 



John de Caroloco, Cherlew, 100 c. 1366-96 101 



John Ok, 1397-1409 102 



John Burghersh, 1409-14 103 



Thomas Nelond, 141 4-2 9 lw 



Robert Amicellis, 105 Auncell, 106 c. 1429-44 107 



Nicholas Benet, 1445 108 



John Danyel, 109 1445-64 



Thomas Atwelle, 1464," occurs 1486 1U 



John Ashdowne, occurs I5o6 112 



Robert Croham, occurs 15 26-37 11S 



The early seal is described 114 in 1411 as 'a 

 round seal on which is a man waving a sword in 

 his hand to cut off the head of a youth kneeling 

 near him.' No perfect example of this is known, 

 but such fragments as remain 115 show that the 

 drawing reproduced in Suss. Arch. Coll. vol. ii, 

 is inaccurate as regards details. 



This seal was replaced probably early in the 

 fifteenth century by a very elaborate circular seal 

 2 in. in diameter. Obverse : a king seated, with 

 crossed legs, in a canopied niche, taking hold of 

 his beard with the right hand ; in the left hand 

 a long sword, the point upwards. On each side, 

 in a smaller niche similarly canopied, a courtier; 

 outside these, in still smaller canopied niches, on 

 each side an attendant, wearing a cap-shaped 



88 Ann. Lewenses, loc. cit. 



99 Simon, bishop of London, had faculty to receive 

 oaths of fealty to the apostolic see from Gerald Roth- 

 onis, prior of Lewes, nuncio designate to the king on 

 matters concerning the papal camera ; Cat. Papal Let. 

 iv, 2. 



100 Cott. MS. Vesp. F. xv, fol. 8. 



101 Ann. Lewenses record his death in 1396 ' anno 

 prioratus xxviii,' but this must be an error, as he was 

 certainly prior in 1366 ; Cal. Papal Let. iv, 25. 



102 Ann. Lewenses (Dep. Keeper's Rep. xlvi, App. ii, 

 67). He had been prior of Castle Acre. 



103 Ibid. 



104 The date of his death is given on his brass in 

 Cowfold church as April 1429, but Ann. Lewenses give 

 1422, which is evidently wrong, as he was commissary- 

 general of the abbot of Cluny in 1427 ; Pat. 5 Hen. V, 

 pt. i, m. 12. 



105 So in Duckett, Rec. of Cluni, ii, 37-58. 



55 This is the reading usually given, e.g. Ann. Lew- 

 enies, loc. cit. ; Susi. Arch. Coll. iii, 203. 



107 His election being irregular was renewed in 1432; 

 Rec. of Cluni, ii, 38. In 1444 he caused the great 

 chartulary, now Cott. MS. Vesp. F. xv, to be com- 

 piled. On his death, December, 1444, he was 

 buried before the altar of St. Mary Magdalene ; ibid. 

 64. 



08 Resigned before taking office ; see above. 



109 Duckett, Rec. of Cluni, ii, 87 ; Ann. Lewenses, 

 loc. cit. 



110 Ibid. 



111 P.C.C. Milles, fol. 5. 



"' Mm. v, 6. " 3 Ibid. 



114 Rec. of Cluni, i, 214. 



114 P.R.O. Seals, SC. 67, 68. 



