RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



friars a place called ' le Haltone,' near the town 

 ditch, reserving right of access to the town wall 

 for repairs and other purposes. 73 From this time 

 the friars occur frequently in Sussex wills as 

 recipients of bequests, usually of small value, but 

 with the exception of a statement in 1524 that 

 in that year the roof of the buildings (tegumentum 

 fabricae) of the friars was erected at the expense 

 of William Marshe, husbandman, 74 their history 

 is a blank. 



The seals of the community of the office of 

 prior attached to the deed of 1368 are 'vesica- 

 shaped, each representing St. Augustin in the act 

 of benediction.' 



A different seal is appended to the deed of 

 1378, and shows ' St. Augustin holding a crozier, 

 with an upright anchor before him, and people 

 standing below.' 75 



29. HOUSE OF CARMELITE FRIARS, 

 SHOREHAM 



The only establishment of Carmelite friars in 

 Sussex was the house of the Blessed Virgin 

 founded at Shoreham by Sir John de Mowbray 76 

 in 1316. The founder's father-in-law, William 

 de Braose, shortly afterwards gave them a messuage 

 adjoining their house, 77 and in 1348 Sir John de 

 Mowbray obtained leave to give them a further 

 i^ acres extending from their dwelling to the 

 High Street on the north. 78 They also obtained 

 from the Hospitallers in 1326 a house and 

 chapel in Shoreham which had formerly be- 

 longed to the Templars. 79 Some fifty years after 

 their foundation they appear to have enlarged 



their church, as in 1368 Sir Michael dePoynings 

 left 20 to the Carmelites of Shoreham towards 

 building their church. 80 They were also the re- 

 cipients of numerous other, but small, legacies. 



Towards the end of the fifteenth century the 

 inroads of the sea threatened to sweep away the 

 friars' house, and accordingly in 1493 they 

 removed to the vacant buildings of the priory of 

 Sele, which had been suppressed and made over 

 to Magdalen College, Oxford, by permission of 

 whose fellows the friars were allowed to take up 

 their quarters there. 81 



These Carmelites appear to have been at the 

 time of the dissolution the poorest of all the 

 Sussex friars, against none of whom could 

 charges of luxury be levelled. The other houses 

 all contrived to struggle on in poverty till 

 suppressed, but when the bishop of Dover came 

 in July, 1538, to the White Friars of Sele, he 

 found 'neither friar nor secular, but the doors 

 open ' ; there was no prior, ' nor none to serve 

 God,' and had not been for some time ; the 

 house, chapel, and 4 acres of land belonged to 

 Magdalen College, being only leased by the 

 friars, and with the exception of choir stalls 

 valued at 2Os., and a bell in the church steeple 

 which the parish claimed, the furniture of the 

 priory, including ' a sorry bell ' and some ragged 

 vestments, was valued at only 35. 4</., and that 

 the bishop considered 8d. too much. 83 



PRIORS OF SHOREHAM 



Nicholas de Bedynge, occurs 1329 83 

 Nicholas, occurs 1342 84 

 John Bromlee, before I383 84 

 John Crawle, occurs 



HOSPITALS 



30. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JAMES, 

 ARUNDEL 



As early as 1 189 there was a hospital for lepers 

 at Arundel, ji2 2s. being paid for its main- 

 tenance in that year, 1 while in 1 1 96 the leprous 

 sisters of the church of St. James received 

 jg 8i. 2 The patronage of the chapel of 

 St. James for lepers was held by John Fitz Alan 

 at the time of his death in 1262, and the mills 

 of Swanbourne were at this time charged with 

 an annual payment of ^9 Of. %d. to the leprous 

 women of Arundel. 3 The chapel passed into 

 the possession of the college of Arundel, and in 

 1459 was occupied by a hermit. 4 



73 Hiit. MSS. Com. Rep. v, 497. 



74 Suit. Arch. Coll. xvii, 128. 



76 Hiit. MSS. Com. Rep. v, 497. 



76 Harl. MS. 539, fol. 144. 



77 Pat. 19 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 17. 



78 Pat. 22 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 14. 



79 Magd. Coll. Mun. Shoreham,' No. 36. 



31. THE HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY 

 TRINITY, ARUNDEL 



Richard, earl of Arundel, who died in 

 1376, had intended to found a hospital or alms- 

 house in connexion with the college whose 

 foundation he was contemplating. Both these 

 schemes were carried out by his successor, who, 

 after establishing the college, obtained royal 

 licence in 1395 to alienate to the master and 



80 Suss. Arch. Coll. xv, 22. 



81 Ibid, xii, 128. 



81 L. and P. Hen. nil (l), 1394, 1456. 

 63 Magd. Coll. Mun. ' Shoreham,' No. 43. 

 84 Pat. 6 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 4. 



86 A bequest to him as ' quondam prior ' ; Cant. 

 Archiepis. Reg. Courtenay, fol. 203. 

 86 Ibid. Chicheley, pt. I, fol. 276. 



1 Pipe R. i Ric. I. 



1 Ibid. 7 Ric. I. 



1 Cat. Inj. p.m. Hen. Ill, 279. 



4 Tierney, Hist, of ArunJel, 679. 



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