RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Reginald, occurs 1277" 



Richard, occurs i2j8 M -g6 M 



Laurence, occurs 1305," resigned 131 5 M 



Luke de Coldone, elected 13 IS, 66 occurs 1344" 



Simon, occurs 1345 68 



Solomon, occurs 1352 69 



William, occurs I353, 60 1355 61 



Robert Frendesbury, occurs 1405 62 



John Chetham, elected 1409," occurs 1429 84 



William Maydeston, occurs I437, 66 died I439 68 



Thomas Shorham, elected 1 439, 67 occurs I447 67 



Thomas, occurs 1 454-9 68 



Thomas Cottingham, occurs 1475 69 



Robert Hertley, occurs 1478 



Robert Nasch, occurs 1488-91" 



Richard Bexley, occurs 1 494 72 - 1 500 and 1 5 2 2 73 



William Galys, elected I522 74 



The seals of two abbots are known : 

 REGINALD. Pointed oval : the abbot on a 



corbel ; in the right hand a pastoral staff, in the 



left hand a book. 76 Legend : 



-f- SIGNV : REGIN' : AB DE BEGEHAM. 



JOHN CHETEHAM. Pointed oval : the abbot, 

 standing in a canopied niche ; in the left hand a 

 pastoral staff, curved outwards. In a smaller 

 canopied niche on each side, an angel. In base, 

 a shield of arms : in chief a lion passant, in base 

 a pastoral staff, on the sinister side two lozenges 

 in pale. 76 Legend : 



IOHIS M : 



18. THE ABBEY OF DUREFORD 77 



About the year 1 1 60 Henry Hussey granted 

 to Berengar, abbot of Welbeck, land at Dure- 



51 Pat. 5 Edw. I, m. 16. 

 61 Assize R. 914, m. 42. 



43 Anct. D., A 10238. 



44 Pat. 33 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 5. 



" C.C.C. Camb. MS. 59. " Ibid. 



" Cal. Papal Let. \\\, 179. 



48 Gasquet, Coll. Angl. Premons. ii, 71. 



49 Chartul. fol. 10. 



60 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. v, 509. 



61 Assize R. 941, m. 23 d. 

 " Dugdale, Man. vi, 9 1 o. 



63 Chich. Epis. Reg. Reade, fol. 1233. 



64 Gasquet, op. cit. 71, from Harl. Chart. 44A, 

 15; 766,49. 



64 Add. Chart. 30078. 

 M Chich. Epis. Reg. Praty, fol. 64. 

 67 Add. Chart. 30080. 

 48 Gasquet, op. cit. i, 75, 144. 

 69 Ibid, ii, 72. 70 Ibid. 74. 



71 Ibid. 75, 77. " Ibid. 79, 80. 



71 Dugdale, Man. vi, 910. 

 74 Chich. Epis. Reg. Sherborn, fol. 40. 

 74 Egerton Chart. 375. 

 78 Harl. Chart. 76 G, 44 ; 75 F, 37. 

 77 Dugdale, Man. vi, 936-9 ; Sow. Arch. Coll. viii, 

 41-96 ; Chartul. Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxiii. 



ford, part of his demesne of Harting, for the 

 establishment of a house of Premonstratensian 

 canons. The abbey of St. Mary and St. John 

 the Baptist of Dureford was therefore founded 

 as a daughter of Welbeck, with the consent of 

 Henry II and Hilary, bishop of Chichester. 78 

 The founder and his son Henry made consider- 

 able grants of lands in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood, which were further added to by many 

 local landowners, including William de Braose, 

 who gave them certain salt-pans near Bramber 

 and a tun of red wine yearly for use at mass. 

 Gifts of provisions were also made by the younger 

 Henry Hussey, who granted them the tithe of all 

 the victuals used in his house at Harting later 

 converting this into a money rent of 15*. as- 

 signed to the refectory ; he also gave them the 

 tithe of cheese from his demesnes. 79 The same 

 benefactor gave them leave to use any quarry 

 on his lands for the building of their abbey, 

 and William le Vesselir added a quarry at 

 ' Wyhus.' ** Henry Hussey further bestowed 

 upon the canons his chapel of Standen, and the 

 church of Rogate, reserving a pension of 251. to 

 the abbey of S6ez. 81 He further endowed the 

 church of Dureford on the day of its dedication 

 with a grove adjoining the London road. 82 



Other lands were obtained by gift and pur- 

 chase, and in 1248 the abbey acquired the site 

 and property of the lazar-house of Harting from 

 the master of the order of St. Lazarus for^So. 83 

 The Hampshire manor of Sonworth was given 

 in 1267 by Gilbert, earl of Gloucester, 84 possibly 

 in memory of his brother William de Clare, who 

 had been buried here after his death from poison 

 treacherously administered in I258. 86 Conse- 

 quently by 1291 the abbey's property in Sussex 

 and elsewhere reached the value of ,55. Gifts 

 continued to be made, some being assigned for 

 special purpose, as for masses or lights at the altars 

 of the Blessed Virgin, Holy Cross, or St. Catherine. 

 The younger Henry Hussey gave certain lands for 

 the support of two canons to celebrate early 

 masses at the altar of the Holy Trinity and of 

 St. Eutropius. 86 The donors were sometimes re- 

 warded by grants of corrodies, several instances of 

 which occur apart from those compulsorily granted 

 to royal nominees. 87 The only benefaction which 

 need be noticed, however, is the advowson of 

 the church of Compton in Surrey given by John 

 de Bridford in I33O, 88 and appropriated by royal 

 licence in I346. 89 



The life of the abbey, though situated in a 



78 Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxiii, fol. 30. 



79 Ibid. fols. 10, 19. " Ibid. fol. 65. 



81 Ibid. fol. 17. 8l Ibid. fol. 14. Ibid. fol. 1 06. 

 84 Ibid. fol. 1 66. 



86 Ann. Mm. (Rolls Ser.), i, 165. 



88 Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxiii, fol. 24. 



87 Close, ii Edw. II, m. io</. 



88 Pat. 4 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 33. 



89 Pat. 20 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 23. 



89 12 



