A HISTORY OF SURREY 



each missal of the church and in their mar- 

 tyrology, and named daily in the chapter 

 with other benefactors. Also that the sacrist 

 should distribute yearly on the anniversary of 

 the said Philip 20s. to the brethren and 6s. 8d. 

 to the poor, and that both he and his brother 

 should be participants in all the spiritual 

 privileges and exercises of the house.' 



When Philip de Barthon' died in 1327, he 

 bequeathed a sum of ;^250 to the abbey for 

 the augmentation of the two chantries already 

 founded within the conventual church. By a 

 covenant with his executors the abbot and con- 

 vent agreed to provide two secular chaplains in 

 their house, and to maintain them in food 

 and lodging and everything necessary for 

 divine service ; to pay them 5^ marks a year, 

 and to provide them a fitting chamber near 

 the great gate of the garden within the abbey, 

 and to keep the same in repair, and to find 

 them a clerk to minister to them, sufficient 

 bedding, and two cartloads of firewood, when 

 provision was made for the chamber of the 

 abbot. The chaplains were to officiate, one 

 at the altar of St. Leonard in the nave, and 

 the other at the altar of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr. One mass was to be celebrated 

 early in the morning before the mass of the 

 Blessed Virgin Mary, and the other at a 

 fit hour at midday between the end of 

 the mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

 and the celebration of high mass. They 

 were to take the oath of obedience to 

 the abbot, and to be removed if found imfit 

 or disobedient. ' And always in the principal 

 mass, they should turn to the people who 

 were hearing mass, and should say a pater- 

 noster for the souls of Philip de Barthon', his 

 brother, and his family and the faithful de- 

 parted.' The former distribution of 26s. 8d. 

 on the anniversary of Philip de Barthon' was 

 to be kept up.* 



By another agreement, in 1 3 1 4, with the 

 rector of the church of Coulsdon the abbot 

 and convent consented, in return for a certain 

 tenement in Coulsdon, to provide a secular 

 chaplain to celebrate for the good estate of 

 the donor when living, and for his soul and 

 that of GeofiFrey de Conductu his brother, 

 when dead.^ 



> Exch. K. R. Misc. Bks. 25, f. 187. 



» Ibid. f. 188. 



' Ibid. f. 326. Similarly in return for a grant of 

 lands made by Hawysia, the widow of Walter de 

 Gloucester, knt., the abbot and convent agreed to 

 pay annually 10 marks towards the sustentation 

 of two chaplains serving a chantry founded by 

 Havfysia for the soul of her husband in the church 

 of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Haydor in the county 

 of Lincoln (ibid. f. 180), and 5 marb to a chaplain at 



60 



In February 1342, on the strength of re- 

 cent legislation,* John de Rutherwyk ob- 

 tained an important concession that on the 

 voidance of the abbey the prior and convent 

 should retain the custody and full and free 

 administration of the temporalities (saving to 

 the king knights' fees and advowsons) at a 

 rent to the Crown of 50 marks for each 

 four months, or part of four months, of such 

 voidance. No escheator, sherifiF or other 

 bailiflF or minister of the king, was to inter- 

 meddle in the custody, further than that at 

 the beginning of each voidance the escheator 

 or his minister should take a simple seisin 

 within the gates of the abbey in the name of 

 the king, and not stay there more than one 

 day.' 



The abbey is said to have been attacked 

 in an insurrection of 138 1 during the abbacy 

 of John de Uske ; the record states that the 

 court rolls and other muniments were burnt 

 by the malice and rebellion of the insurgents 

 against the peace of the king.' 



In consequence of complaints of great di- 

 lapidations committed by Thomas Angewyn, 

 who was elected abbot on the death of John 

 de Hermondesworth in 1458, an inquiry was 

 instituted by commission of the Bishop of 

 Winchester to William Wroughton, a monk 

 of Winchester, and the abbot was compelled 

 to resign. The bishop at the request of the 

 convent selected Wroughton to fill the vacant 

 place in March 146 1-2.'' In 1464 Wrough- 

 ton himself was deposed, and on 1 2 Febru- 

 ary Edward IV. granted a licence to the 

 abbot and convent to elect a head in the 

 place of William Wroughton deprived,^ 

 whereupon they re-elected Angewyn.* The 

 bishop, however, on the grounds of a lack of 

 due formality in the election, collated John 

 May to the vacancy on the 19 March 1464- 

 5.'° During his rule the abbey was called on 



the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church of 

 Littleton (London Diocese) founded by Thomas 

 de Littleton, former rector of Spaxton, and now of 

 Harrow (ibid. f. 191). 



* In consequence of waste and damage done to 

 ecclesiastical property during voidance it was 

 enacted in 1 340 that in the case of the vacancy of 

 a bishopric or abbey or priory, etc., the value of 

 the voidance might be paid in money (Stat. 14 

 Edw. III. cap. 4). 



= Pat. 16 Edw. III. m. 36. 



' Exch. K. R. Misc. Bks. 25, f. 173d. 



' Pat. 2 Edw. IV. m. 21. 



8 Ibid. 4 Edw. IV. m. 9. 



» Ibid. 5 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 13. 



" Winton Epis. Reg., Waynflete, i. pt. ii,f. 137. 



The causes which led to the deprivation of Abbot 



Wroughton cannot now be ascertained, but there 



appears to have been some great irregularity. An 



