RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



manor of Yapton, and various lands and rents. 6 

 To this was added in 1381 the advowson of 

 Goring and 208 marks of rent, 7 which was in 

 1386 partly converted into lands of the equiva- 

 lent value, including the manors of Bury and 

 West Burton. 8 Thomas, earl of Arundel, on his 

 death in 1415, left the sum of 500 marks to the 

 college, 8 and in 1423 certain of his feoffees paid 

 jioo for leave to alienate to the same church 

 the manors of South Stoke, Warningcamp, 

 Climpsfold, Pipering, North Mundham, Ang- 

 mering, and Houghton, and other lands amount- 

 ing to the value of about 100 marks. 10 A 

 bequest of less value but of some interest was 

 that of Bishop William Reade, who in 1385 left 

 thirteen books to the college with a sum of 20 

 marks to be expended in chaining the books 

 firmly in the library. 11 



The college consisted of a master, vice-master, 

 precentor, ten other chaplains, two deacons, two 

 sub-deacons, and four choristers, a fifth chorister 

 being apparently added at a later date. Elaborate 

 injunctions were given for the conduct of the 

 services and of the lives of the members, but as 

 they were on the usual lines of such establish- 

 ments they need not be detailed here. 13 While 

 the college was free from gross scandals its 

 management appears to have suffered from the 

 prevailing laxity of the fifteenth century ; a 

 visitation in 1442 shows that the numbers had 

 fallen to eight, the rules were ill-observed, the 

 buildings out of repair, jewels lost, and debts to 

 the amount of 40 incurred. 13 In 1478 the 

 numbers were still insufficient and the services 

 slackly celebrated. 14 The choir of the church of 

 St. Nicholas being the chapel of the college, 

 while the remainder of the church was parochial, 

 there was some doubt as to the relative responsi- 

 bility for repairs incurred by the college and the 

 parish, until in 1511 an agreement was drawn 

 up relative to ' le crosse yles,' the repairs of the 

 south aisle (i.e. transept), commonly called the 

 chancel of the parish church, being assigned to 

 the college, those of the north aisle and the nave 

 to the mayor and burgesses, and those of the 

 central tower, with the bells, to the two parties 

 in common. 16 



Arundel College survived the dissolution of 

 the monasteries and appeared to be still secure as 

 late as the autumn of 1541, when Henry VIII 

 granted to the master and fellows the suppressed 

 priory of Hayling and the possessions of the 



6 Pat. 9 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 1 1 . 



7 Pat. 5 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 24, 3. 

 'Pat. 9 Ric. II, pt. ii, m. 35. 



'Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Chicheley, fol. 287. 



10 Pat. i Hen. VI, pt. iv, m. 13. 



11 Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Courtenay, fol. 213. 

 "The statutes are printed in full by Tierney, 



Hiit. of Arundel, 752-72. 



" Chich. Epis. Reg. Praty, fol. 82. 



14 Ibid. Story, 30^. u Ibid. Sherborn, fol. 155. 



dissolved preceptory of the Hospitallers at Poling 

 and Shipley, in exchange for the manor of Bury. 16 

 But before the end of the next year its dissolu- 

 tion was suggested by Lord Maltravers, son of 

 the earl of Arundel, who wrote to the king 

 offering 1,000 for the college property to enable 

 him to pay his debts, and undertaking to obtain 

 the consent of his father and of the master and 

 fellows. 17 This latter task possibly proved more 

 difficult than Lord Maltravers had anticipated, 

 as it was not until after his succession to the 

 earldom in 1544 that the college fell, being sur- 

 rendered in December of that year. 18 



MASTERS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARUNDEL u 



Adam Ertham, first master, 20 died before 1383 

 William Whyte, occurs 1383, died 1420 

 John Colmorde, appointed 1420, occurs 1443 

 Edward Poynings, occurs 1447, died 1484 

 John Neele, appointed 1484, died 1497 21 

 John Dogett, occurs 1499, ^ied 1501 

 Henry Ediall, appointed 1501, died 1520 

 Edward Hygons, D.D., appointed 1520, occurs 



1535 

 Alan Percy, occurs 1539, surrendered 1544 



The seal of the college is a pointed oval : the 

 Trinity, in a canopied niche with tabernacle 

 work at the sides. In base, a shield of arms : 

 quarterly, i, 4, quarterly, uncertain ; 2, 3, 

 chequy, for RICHARD Frrz-ALAN, earl of 

 Arundel, founder. Legend : 



S* COMUNE COLLEGII SANCTE TRINITATIS 

 ARUNDELLIE 



57. THE COLLEGE OF BOSHAM. 23 



It has already been mentioned that when 

 St. Wilfrid came to preach to the South Saxons 

 he found a priest called Dicul and a few com- 

 panions settled at Bosham. 34 Here, where the 

 lamp of Christianity was first lit in Sussex, there 

 sprang up during the succeeding centuries a 

 college of secular priests richly endowed with 

 broad lands, valued in the Confessor's time at 

 over 300. This wealthy foundation, of whose 

 early history nothing is known, was bestowed by 

 the Confessor upon his Norman chaplain, 

 Osbern, bishop of Exeter, who continued to hold 

 it under the Conqueror. Henry I subsequently 

 assigned this ' royal free chapel ' of Bosham to 



U L. and P. Hen. mi, rvi, 1056 (69). 



" Ibid, xvii, 861. 18 Ibid, xix (2), 734. 



" Tierney, op. cit. 63940. 



10 Brass in Arundel Church. 



11 Will in P.C.C. Home, 19. 



" B.M. Ixxii, 72 ; cf. Dugdale, Mtm. Angl. vi, 735. 

 n Suss. Arch. Coll. viii, 1 89-200. 

 " See above, p. I. 



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