RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Priors of Hertford 



Ralph, the first prior « 



Nigel, c. 1200 ^* 



William de Sandruge, instituted 1213 (?)," 

 died July 1222 ^'^ 



John, instituted January 1223,^ became 

 Abbot of St. Albans 1235 =« 



Richard, instituted 1237 ^s 



Nicholas, instituted 1241 s* 



Simon, <Hed September 1247 " 



Richard, occurs 1252,^8 ^Jiej 12^3 59 



Thomas Martel, instituted 1254-5 *" 



WilHam de Hertford, instituted January 

 1 270-1 ^ 



Mark de St. Edmund, instituted September 

 1276^ 



William de Romeseye, instituted 1299 ^ 

 Richard de Hertford, instituted July 1303,** 



Richard occurs 1309 ^^ 

 William de Kirkeby, instituted 1312 *^ 

 John de Walsingham, instituted 1 3 15 ^' 

 William de Kirkeby, instituted 1316 ®^ 

 Stephen de Withenden, instituted 1317 ^* 

 Ridiard de Wathamstede, instituted 1318 '" 

 Geoffrey de St. Albans, instituted 1323 'i 

 Nicholas de Flamstede, occurs 1327 '^ 

 Adam de Doncaster, instituted 1350 ''■* 

 Robert Nony, instituted 1352 '* 

 John de Colby, occurs April 1389 '^ 



William Wynselowe, occurs 9 October 1396,'' 

 10 January 1 397-8," October 1398,'" 

 12 December 1401 " 



William Giles, occurs 1420 ^" 



William Ellis, occurs 1423 ^^ 



William Brit, occurs 1429 ^^ 



John Welles, occurs 16 January 1452 ^^ 



Thomas Walden, occurs 25 March 1461- 

 25 December 1462 ^* 



John Welles, appointed 1463,*° occurs 1465 ** 



Richard Lamplew, occurs 1476," made prior 

 for Hfe I August 1484,^' died 1489 ^^ 



John Bensted, occurs 25 March-29 September 

 1489 90 



William Waterman, occurs c. 1490-3 ^ (?) 



WilHam Dyxwell, occurs 29 September 1497- 

 29 September 1498 ^^ 



John Kelyngwurthe, occurs 16 September 

 1507 »* and 15 1 1 8* 



Thomas Hampton, occurs 1512-13,*' Feb- 

 ruary 1520,9^ June 1525-June 1526," Janu- 

 ary 1537*^ and July 1539'' 



The seal attached to a charter of 1520"" is 

 a large 13th-century vesica. On it is repre- 

 sented a half-length figure of the Virgin standing, 

 and holding on her left arm the Child, whose 

 head is surrounded by a cruciform nimbus. 

 All that remains of the broken legend is 



SANCTE. [mJarIE. [de.hJeRTO 



*' Ralph the prior witnessed the charter of founda- 

 tion (Lansd. MS. 863, fol. 157 d.). He also witnessed 

 the charter of the founder's son Alan (ibid. fol. 158). 



'" He was contemporary with John de Limesi 

 (ibid. fol. 159). See also B.M. Chart. L. F. C. x, 

 12, and Add. Chart. 15470. 



" The Prior of Hertford died in this year {Jnn. 

 Mm. [Rolls Ser.], 41), so that William may have 

 been appointed then. 



^2 Matt. Paris, op. cit. vi, 270. 



53 R. of Hugh de Welles (Cant, and York Soc), iii, 



44-5- 



^ Gesta Abbot, i, 312. 



5' Clutterbuck, Hist, and Antiq. of Herts, ii, 152. 



«6 Ibid. 



*' Matt. Paris, op. cit. iii, 277. 



58 Feet of F. Herts. 36 Hen. Ill, no. 413. 



5' Matt. Paris, op. cit. vi, 279. Here called 

 Richard de Wendene. 



^° Lincoln Epis. Reg. Rolls Lexington (Hunting- 

 don Arch. Anno l). 



" Clutterbuck, op. cit. ii, 152. 



82 Ibid. 



8' Lincoln Epis. Reg. Inst. Sutton, fol. 92 d. 



8* Clutterbuck, loc. cit. 



85 Cal. Pat. 1307-13, p. 112. 



88 Lincoln Epis. Reg. Inst. Dalderby, fol. 245. 



8' Ibid. fol. 249 d. 88 Ibid. fol. 250 d. 



8S Ibid. fol. 252. ™ Ibid. fol. 254 d. 



'1 Ibid. Inst. Burghersh, fol. 365. 



" Gesta Abbat. ii, 187. 



" Lincoln Epis. Reg. Inst. Gynwell, fol. 345. 



'* Ibid. fol. 352. 



" Ibid. Memo. Buckingham, ii, fol. 357. 



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4. SALBURN PRIORY IN STANDON 



The Benedictine priory of St. Michael of 

 Salburn in Standon was a cell of the priory of 



78 Gesta Abbat. ii, 425. 



7' Lond. Epis. Reg. Braybrook, fol. 345 d. Here 

 no surname is given. 

 '8 Add. Chart. 40755. 

 '5 Gesta Abbat. ii, 480. 

 so Clutterbuck, op. cit. ii, 152. 



81 Ibid. 



82 He was made Prior of Binham about the autumn 

 of 1429 (Amundesham, Annales, i, 42). 



83 Reg. of St. Albans (Rolls Ser.), i, 10. 

 8* Mins. Accts. bdle. 865, no. 15. 



85 Ibid. 



88 Reg. of St. Albans, ii, 30. 



87 Ibid. 145. 88 Ibid. 268. 



8' Mins. Accts. Hen. VII, no. 1 696. 



90 Ibid. 



" Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 151, no. 27-30. The 

 document can only be approximately dated as from 

 i486 to 1493 or 1504 to 1 5 15. 



92 Rentals and Surv. R. 277. 



" Harl. Chart. 75 G 5. 



94 Clutterbuck, op. cit. ii, 152. 



95 Dugdale, Mon. iii, 299. 



96 B.M. Chart. L. F. C. x, 1 3. No surname given. 



97 Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. cdxxii, fol. 77. 



98 Add. Chart. 35477- 



99 Ibid. 35315- 



wo B.M. Chart. L. F. C. x, 13. 



