RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Thomas, occurs <:. I265, 139 1285" 



William, occurs I32O 141 



Robert Coitere, deposed 143 



Henry, occurs 1346-56 143 



John, occurs 13 76, 144 1380 145 



John Charney, or Chernell, occurs I399, 146 



I 4 02 147 



John Hormer, elected 1402 148 



John Baker, resigned 1438 149 



John Baker, re-appointed I438, 150 occurs 



I442 151 



John Gifford, appointed I468, 153 occurs I4y8 183 

 John Buryman, resigned I488 154 

 Ellis Parker, appointed I488, 155 died (?) 156 

 William Fromond, appointed (?), 156 died I5O4 157 

 Richard Abell, appointed I5O4, 157 resigned 



1507 158 

 Thomas Bacheler, appointed I5O7, 158 died 



1509 



159 



William Aylyng, appointed I509, 159 died 



I52 4 160 

 Robert, surrendered I525 161 



The fifteenth-century seal is circular (2^ in.) 

 and shows St. Bartholomew, standing in a niche 

 with trefoiled canopy, crocketed and pinnacled, 

 and with elaborate tabernacle work at the sides ; 

 in the right hand a knife, in the left hand a book. 

 In base, a human head between two oak-leaves. 162 



+ SIGILLV -f COMVNE + DOMVS -|- SANCTI -f- 

 BARTHOLOMEI -(- DE -J- CALCETO -+- 



13. THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED 163 



The priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 

 St. Eustace, and the Holy Cross of Shulbred, or 

 Woolynchmere, was probably founded by Ralph 

 de Arden, who in I2OO bought 2 hides of land 

 in ' Wlenchemere,' and in 1207 had the priory 

 of ' Wlenchemere ' with all its possessions during 

 the king's pleasure. His descendant, another 



139 Cal. Bodl. Chart. Suss. Nos. 42, 49. 



""Ibid. No. 60. '"Assize R. 938, m. 19. 



141 See above. 



145 Cal. Bodl. Chart. Suss. Nos. 64, 67, 68. 

 144 Ibid. 69. '" Cler. Subs. #. 

 M Ca/. Bodl. Chart. Suss. No. 71. 



147 Chich. Epis. Reg. Reade, fol. 82. "" Ibid. 



149 Ibid. Praty, fol. 626. 



160 Ibid. '"Ibid. fol. 82. 



1M Ibid. fol. 114. "* Ibid. Story, fol. 29. 



144 Ibid. fol. 793. 



146 Ibid. '" Ibid, date omitted. 

 '"Ibid. Story, pt. ii, fol. 38. 



158 Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Warham, fol. 250. 

 "'Ibid. fol. 251. 

 160 Card. Bdles. 76, No. 49. 

 181 L. and P. Hen. fill, iv, 1137. 

 1<B B.M. Ixxii, 83. 



63 For further details and references see paper by 

 E. L. Calverley, in Suss. Arch. Coll. xlvii, 1-34. 



Ralph de Ardenne, sold the advowson of the 

 priory to William Percy in 1239 for 65 marks ; 

 and it accordingly remained in the hands of the 

 Percies until December, 1459, when Henry 

 Percy, earl of Northumberland, granted it to 

 Waynflete, bishop of Winchester, who probably 

 contemplated appropriating it to his college of 

 Magdalen, Oxford. 164 The priory, however, came 

 again into the possession of the Percies, and was 

 retained by them till its dissolution. 



The original endowment appears to have con- 

 sisted of lands in Linchmere and Mid Lavant, 

 but when William Percy acquired the patronage 

 he added a mill and rents in Tillington and 

 Petworth, in return for which the prior under- 

 took to maintain five canons to celebrate divine 

 service for the souls of William and his heirs, 

 the right of presenting a fit clerk whenever a 

 canon died being reserved to William and his 

 heirs. It was probably by William Percy's 

 influence that Bishop Ralph de Neville (1227-43) 

 appropriated to the priory the church of Shul- 

 bred, with the consent of the abbey of Sez, of 

 whose church of Cocking it appears to have 

 been a daughter. A few small additions were 

 made to the endowment, but the total value of 

 the temporalities in 1291 was only 10 15*. 



The advowson of the church of Up Marden 

 was obtained from Lewes Priory in 1340, and 

 next year the Nonae rolls show that Shulbred 

 then held property in Linchmere, Easebourne, 

 Yapton, Walberton, and Mid Lavant. In 1354 

 Edward St. John gave them the church of Mid 

 Lavant, but it was subsequently found that he 

 could produce no charter or other evidence of 

 having purchased it from the priory of Lewes, 

 so that the convent had to re-acquire it of the 

 priory in 1358, when the bishop granted them 

 leave to appropriate the church, the reason given 

 being their poverty, due to the death of many of 

 their servants in the great pestilence of 1350. 

 The chapel of Linch and manor of Rawmere 

 were also in their possession, and the Valor of 

 1535 shows a gross income of 79 15*. 6^., or, 

 after deduction of all reprises, ^72 15*. 10^. 

 clear. 



The history of the house begins in 1263 with 

 a complaint 165 made by Godfrey Aguillon that 

 whereas his father John Aguillon on his death- 

 bed left 8s. rent and loox. in money, so that his 

 executors should place Godfrey in the priory of 

 Shulbred, in accordance with an agreement made 

 with John then prior, predecessor of the present 

 prior, by which the prior was to have the said 

 rent and money, to keep Godfrey for seven years 

 at school training for orders of clergy, and then 

 either to receive him as a canon or return to him 

 the rent and money ; yet the prior had neither 

 received him nor returned the money to him. 

 At the end of the same century, in 1299, the 



81 



164 Hiit. MSS. Com. Rep. viii, 266. 

 164 Assize R. 9 1 2, m. 12 d. 



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