RELIGIOUS 
other small fractions. In 13027 the abbot 
had one fee at Putnoe in Goldington, and one 
fee at Renhold grange, both of which still 
were reckoned as the property of Warden in 
1346 and 1428.3 There were some small 
fractions besides at Northill, Southill and 
Stanford,‘ and Swaffham Prior in Cambridge- 
shire ;5 in 1428°% the abbot had three whole 
fees—Putnoe, Renhold grange and Warden 
—one half in Beeston, one half in Northill, 
threequarters in Southill and small portions in 
Goldington and Stanford. 
The clear value of the property of the abbey 
in 1535 was reckoned at £389 16s. 644.” 
The report of the Crown bailiff in 1539 
showed the abbey to have been in posses- 
sion of the manors of Putnoe, Ravensden, 
Rowney, Odsey, Westwarden and Egton 
(Northants), and Middleho (Hunts), besides 
other granges, farms, parcels of land and rents 
in Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Herts, Hunts, 
Northants and London, amounting altogether 
to £428 6s. 114d., after the deduction of two 
manors conceded to John Gostwick.® 
ABBOTS OF WARDEN 
Simon,? first abbot, occurs about 1150 
Payn,’® occurs 1186 and 1195 
Warin," occurs 1199 
Roger,'? occurs 1200-1 
Warin,'® occurs 1204-5 
Laurence, occurs 1209-10 
Henry,'® died 1216 
1 Feudal Aids, i. 6. 
2 Ibid. 9, 14, 15. 
3 Thid. 34, 45. 
4 Ibid. 19, 27, 28. 
5 Ibid. 160. 
6 Thid. 41, 43, 45. 
7 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.) Amongst the liabili- 
ties of the abbey are reckoned: For the support 
of seven poor people of both sexes in the almonry 
or infirmary of the abbey, £13 135. 4d. For the 
poor on Maundy Thursday, by the gift of the 
founder, 35s. 4d. For seven poor of each sex twice 
a year, 335. 4d. 
8 Dugdale, Mon. v. 375. 
® Mentioned in the privilege of Innocent II. 
(1130-43) (Add. MS. 24465, f.25); and witnessed 
the Foundation Charter of Chicksand, about 
1150. 
10 Gorham, History of St Neo#’s, II. Ixxiv. (@. 
abbot of Warden); and Hunter, Feet of F. 8 
Rich. I. (Rec. Com.), 5. 
11 Harl. MS. 3656, f.60; and Add. MS. 24465, 
26b (duplicates of the same charter). 
12 Hunter, Feet of F.2 John (Rec. Com.), 27. 
13 Ibid. 59. 
1 Add. MS. 24465, f. 25. 
15 ‘Died at Rochford 1216, and was buried there’ 
(From a list of abbots of this house, compiled by 
F, A. Page-Turner, Esq.) 
f. 
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HOUSES 
Roger,'* occurs 1223 
Adam," occurs 1234 and 1242, died 1244 
William *® de Sheldwick, occurs 1254 
Alexander *® de Reynes, occurs 1259 and 
1262 
John,” occurs 1290 
Ralf of Harrold,” elected 1304, died 1313 
Geoffrey of Stanford,” elected 1313 
Robert of Odell,”* occurs 1324 
William,™* occurs 1331 and 1346 
John,”> occurs 1428 
John Fraunceys,* elected 1447, occurs 
1454 
Augustine London, *” occurs 1509 and 
1529 
Henry Emery,” surrendered 1537 
The common seal of the abbey is attached 
to the deed of surrender,?® and represents 
16 Add. MS. 24465, f. 27. 
17 Harl. MS. 3656, f. 62 (A. abbot of Warden), 
and Matth. Paris, Chron. Majora (Rolls Series), iv. 
227, 390. 
18 nn. Mon. (Rolls Series), iii. 192 (footnote). 
1 Add. MS. 24465, ff. 35b, 62b. 
20 Pat. 18 Edw. I. m. 20. 
21 Linc. Epis. Reg., Memo. Dalderby, 255. 
22 Ibid. 83 
23 From the description of the seal once attached 
to Harl. Ch. 45, A 27, but now lost, it is pro- 
bable that the abbot alluded to in this charter 
was Robert of Odell. It is dated ‘the seventeenth 
year of the king’—probably Edward II. ‘Dom- 
inus Robertus de Wodhulle’ is named as the pre- 
decessor of the next abbot in Add. MS. 2446s, 
f. 30b. 
2% Cal. of Pap. Letters, iti. 222 (1346); Add. 
MS. 24465, f. 30b (William, abbot of ‘ Helmesle,’ 
abbot of Warden in the ‘twentieth year of King 
Edward’); and William, abbot of Warden, dated 
4 Edw. III. (earlier in the same chartulary). It is 
most probable that all these are references to the 
same person. 
25 Pat. 6 Henry VI. pt. I, m. 29. 
26 Linc. Epis. Reg., Memo. Alnwick, 76; and 
Reg. Bourchier (from Ely Dioc. Remembrancer, No. 
219, p. 179). 
27 Add. MS. 5827, f. 174b, gives the dates 1488 
and 1509 for Augustine London. The second is 
from the will of John Fisher, a judge, who was 
to be buried at Warden ; but the earlier date, which 
comes from Browne Willis without reference, 
seems almost impossible, as Augustine was certainly 
still alivein1537 (L. and P. Hen. VIII. xiii [1], 981). 
28 Deed of Surrender (P.R.O.), No. 253. Be- 
sides the names mentioned above ‘ Helyas ’ occurs 
without any indication of date in Add. MS. 24465, 
f. 35; ‘W.abbot of Warden’ in Harl. MS. 3656, 
f. 62, under 1225; ‘H. abbot of Warden’ in 
1272, in Harl. MS. 3656, f. 64; and Laurence in 
Add. MS. 24465, f. 28b, dated 30 Edw. I. 
29 Deed of Surrender (P.R.O.), 253 ; casts of the 
same B.M. lviii. 42, and lix.65. The seal of Robert 
de (Wodhul)le, once attached to Harl. Ch. 45, A 
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