A HISTORY OF SURREY 



of Scotland was buried at this monastery after 

 the battle of Flodden Field, in 1 5 1 3. 'After 

 that the Earl of Surrey had taken order, and 

 set the North in good quiet, he returned to 

 the Queene with the dead body of the Scot- 

 tish king, which body being inclosed in lead, 

 as I have been informed was conveyed to 

 Shine, a monastery in Surrey founded by 

 King Henry the Fifth, whose it remained for 

 a time, in what order I am not certaine, but 

 since the dissolution of the House, to wit, in 

 the raigne of King Edward the Sixth Henry 

 Grey then Duke of Suffolke there keeping 

 house, I have been shewed the same body (as 

 was affirmed) so lapped in lead throwne into 

 an old wast roome, amongst old timber, stone, 

 lead, and other rubble.'' This statement is 

 supported by a passage in a book called The 

 Flower of Fame, printed in 1575. 'The 

 dead body of the King of Scottes was found 

 among the other carcasses in the fielde and 

 from thence brought to London, and so 

 through London streets on horseback. And 

 from thence it was carried to Sheene (neere 

 unto Brentford), whereat the Queen then lay, 

 and there the perjured carcas lyeth unto this 

 day unburied.' The Scots however steadily 

 maintained that the body found and conveyed 

 to London and thence to Sheen was not that 

 of their king ; nevertheless, Stowe's state- 

 ment is apparently correct. 



In 1 5 16 licence was obtained by Thomas 

 Pygot and Richard Broke, serjeants-at-law, 

 and others to alienate to the House of Jesus 

 of Bethlehem, Sheen, possessions to the annual 

 valueof ;^I5 15/. These possessions included 

 the manor of Portpole and lands in St. 

 Andrew's, Holborn.^ 



Dr. John Colet, the learned dean of St. 

 Paul's, was allowed to build himself lodgings 

 within the precincts of the monastery of 

 Sheen. Discovering the sweating sickness 

 to grow upon him, he retired to Sheen, 

 ' spending the little remainder of his days in 

 devotion, and surrendered up at length his 

 last breath to Him that first gave it, on the 

 1 6th of September 15 19." His body was 

 however taken back to St. Paul's for burial. 



On 28 April 1528 John Jobourn, prior of 

 Sheen, as visitor of the order, consented to the 

 alienation by the monastery of the Carthusian 

 house, the Salutation, near London, of a 

 tenement in London of the gift of Sir Robert 

 Reede, late chief justice of the Common Pleas 

 in exchange for other lands more profitable.* 



' Stowe's Amuds, 494. 

 ■> L. and P. Hen. VIII. ii. 1760, 1778. 

 3 Wood's Athena Oxonienses (Bliss), i. 26 

 ' L. and P. Hen. Fill. iv. 4221. 



92 



Among the alms of Katiiarine of Arragon 

 for the year 1529 is the sum of £y 6s. id. 

 to the convent of Sheen.' 



In March 1530 Prior Jobourn, was one of 

 the parties to an indenture tripartite touching 

 lands devised for finding two secular priests 

 in the chapel of All Angels beside ' Breynford 

 Brygg.' » 



On I November 1530, Prior Jobourn 

 granted to the king the convent's possessions 

 in Lewisham and East Greenwich,^ and an 

 indenture was entered into on 5 September 

 1 53 1 between him and the king for an 

 exchange of these manors for the site and 

 precinct of the late priory of Bradwell, Bucks, 

 with lands in nine parishes of Buckingham- 

 shire and two of Northamptonshire, together 

 with seven advowsons, as held by John Ashby, 

 the late prior ; also the chantry lands of Bed- 

 dington, and other lands lately belonging to 

 Cardinal's College, Oxford.^ 



In common with other English Carthu- 

 sians, the prior and convent of Sheen were 

 very reluctant to take the oath of supremacy 

 in favour of Henry VIII., which was gener- 

 ally enforced in 1534. The Carthusians 

 were almost as zealous in opposing the royal 

 action as were the Friars Observant." On 

 7 May 1534, Roland, Bishop of Lichfield, 

 and Thomas Bedyll wrote to Cromwell that 

 they had accomplished the business at Sheen, 

 the prior, convent, and novices having taken 

 the oath. The prior and proctor had shown 

 themselves honest men and faithful subjects, 

 and exhorted the Observants of Richmond to 

 do the same." A letter to Lord Lisle, of 13 

 May, mentions however that the priors of 

 the Charterhouses of London and Sheen were 

 both in the Tower.'' 



There is also a letter extant of this year, 

 apparently of the month of August, from one 

 John Pyzaunt, a monk of Sheen, to Sir John 

 Alayn, alderman of London, which though 

 loyal to his house and order, shows that there 

 was difference of opinion amongst the brethren. 

 He asked for Sir John's intercession with ' Mr. 

 Secretary,' for, though many of them were 

 ready to conform with the king's wishes, 

 ' others I think will rather die from a little 

 scrupulosity of conscience, and would not 



5 Ibid. 61 21. « Ibid. 6264. 



' Ibid. 671 1. X Ibid. V. 403, 627 (22). 



» See the subsequent account of the friars of 

 Richmond. 



>» L. and P. Hen. VIII. vii. 622. 



" Ibid. 671. For the piteous story of the ap- 

 palling treatment of the London Carthusians on 

 the scaffold and in prison, see Froude's Hist. u. ch 

 9 ; and Gasquet's Monasteries, i. 202-43. 



