RELIGIOUS HOUSES 
shire were added by other benefactors as por- 
tions with the daughters whom they sent to 
school or into religion The churches of 
Elstow, Wilshampstead, Maulden, Kempston, 
Flitton, Westoning, with Hitchin (Herts), 
Inworth (Essex), Clanfield (Oxon), West- 
bury (Bucks), Harringworth and Wilbarston 
(Northants) were in the gift of the abbey 
from the thirteenth century to the Disso- 
lution; while Goddington? (Oxon) and 
Tingrith (Beds*) were claimed by it in the 
thirteenth century, and Halton-super-Hum- 
ber * (Lincoln) in the twelfth. Portions of 
tithes from several other churches were paid 
to the monastery. In 1291 its income was 
about £110°; at the Dissolution it was 
£284 125. 11d. clear. 
In 1316, 1346 and 1428® the abbess of 
Elstow held the vills of Elstow, Wilshamp- 
stead and Maulden in pure alms, and some 
small fractions of knight’s fees in Flitton and 
Cotes, with a quarter of a fee in Moulsoe, 
Bucks.’ In the ministers’ accounts after the 
Dissolution the property was valued at 
£234 8s. 7d. after the subtraction of some 
parcels of lands annexed to the honour of 
Ampthill; the site of the monastery and 
its demesne lands being reckoned as 
£77 175. 1048 
ABBESSES OF ELstow 
Cecily,® occurs c. 1180 
Mabel,'® elected 1213 (?), occurs 1218 and 
1222 
Wymark," died 1241 
1 Given in the same charter (see also Dugdale, 
Mon. v. 190, for a similar gift from Maud de 
Amundeville). 
2 Feet of F. Oxon, 6 Henry III. 
3 Cur. Reg. R. 58, 15 John, n. 10 dors. 
‘ A pension from this church continued to be 
paid to the abbess till the dissolution (Harl. Ch. 44, 
D 35, and Valor Eccl. [Rec. Com], iv. 188). 
5 Pope Nich. Tax.(Rec.Com.) The totals from 
the Taxatio here and elsewhere are only approxi- 
mate ; it is not always possible to find out exactly 
how much a monastery really received from an 
appropriate church. 
6 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 188-9. 
1 Feudal Aids (P.R.O,), i. 13, 20, 27, 31, 36, 40, 
41, 46, 104. 
8 Dugdale, Mon. iii. 416. 
® Harl. MS. 3656, f. 70; ibid. 1885, £. 23b. 
Contemporary with Geoffrey Ridel, Bishop of Ely, 
1173-89, and Pope Alexander III. 1159-81. 
10 An abbess unnamed died 1213 (Ann. Mon. 
[Rolls Series], iii. 41. The name Mabel occurs 
(Cott. MS. Nero, E vi. f. 128), with Almaric de St. 
Maur, who died 1219 (Ann. Mon. [Rolls Series], 
iii. §5 ; and again Feet of F., Beds, 6 Henry III.) 
11 Linc, Epis. Reg., Rolls of Grossetéte. 
357 
Agnes of Westbury,!? elected 1241, re- 
signed 1249 
Aubrée de Fécamp,"* elected 1249 
Annora,"* died 1281 
Beatrice de Scoteny,'® elected 1281, died 
1294 
Clemence de Balliol,!® elected 1294, re- 
signed 1314 
Joan de Wauton,’” elected 1315, died 
1318 
Elizabeth de Beauchamp,'® elected 1318, 
died 1331 
Juliane Basset,'® elected 1331, died 1333 
Elizabeth Morteyn,”° elected 1333, occurs 
1351 
Anstis (Anastasia) Dene,” occurs 1370, re- 
signed 1392 
Margaret Pygot,?? elected 1392, died or 
resigned 1409 
Joan Trailly,”* elected 1409, died 1430 
Rose Waldgrave,™ died 1463 
Elizabeth Hasylden,” elected 1463, occ. 
1473 
12 Thid. 
13 [bid. 
14 Tbid. Memo. Sutton; and Pat. 9 Edw. I. m. 15. 
15 Ibid.;a divided election, Agatha Giffard se- 
curing some votes (see above, p. 354, note 9). 
16 Linc. Epis. Reg., Inst. Sutton, 98; Pat. 
22 Edw. I. m. to. 
i Linc. Epis. Reg., Inst. Dalderby, f. 273d. 
Another divided election, some choosing Elizabeth 
de Beauchamp: on 7 Feb. 1315 (Pat. 8 Edw. II. 
pt. I, m. 3) theking commissioned the bishop to in- 
quire which election ought to stand. Clemence de 
Balliol possibly foresaw the dispute, for just before 
her resignation in November 1314 she obtained a 
grant (through Queen Isabel) that the prioress 
and nuns of her house should have all the issues of 
the abbey and its temporalities during the next 
voidance, and be free of the escheator (Pat. 8 
Edw. II. pt. 1, m. 27). The election of the prioress 
Joan de Wauton was confirmed 14 May 1315 by 
the Archbishop of Canterbury (ibid.) 
18 Linc. Epis. Reg., Inst. Dalderby, 276; ibid. 
Memo. Dalderby, 379. 
19 Ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 304; Pat. 5 Edw. III. 
pt. ii. m. 19 and 11. 
20 Linc. Epis. Reg., Inst. Burghersh, 306d; Pat. 
7 Edw. III. pt.ii.m.21and19. Occurs Cal. of Pap. 
Letters, iii. 412 (1351). 
21 Campbell MS. x. 9, dated 1370; resigned 
Linc. Epis. Reg. Inst. Buckingham, 359. 
22 Tbid. 
23 Linc. Epis. Reg., Inst. Repingdon, 297; death 
recorded (not naming successor) J. deAmundesham, 
Ann. Mon. S. Albani, i. 47. She was probably 
the daughter of Sir John Trailly, who founded 
Northill College (Feud. Aids, i. 40). 
24 Pat. 2 Edw. IV. m. 25. 
26 Ibid. Occurs again ibid. 13 Edw. IV. pt. i. 
m. 21 (July, 1473). 
