RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Calva and Beatrice de Sandes his wife, in the 

 time of Richard I. A long charter of in- 

 spection and confirmation, granted by Edward 

 II. in 1320,* quotes the grant of Ruald and 

 Beatrice by which they gave to God and the 

 blessed Virgin and the blessed martyr Thomas 

 and to the canons there serving God, in free 

 alms, the land called * Hamma de Papworth,' 

 with all its appurtenances of woods, water, 

 mills, fisheries, etc., half a hide of land at 

 Ford, a little croft and a carucate of land 

 adjoining it on the south, the church of 

 Send with the chapel of Ripley, and the 

 church of Shipton with the chapel of Snoding- 

 ton in Hampshire, to construct there in the 

 place called Aldbury a church in honour of 

 the blessed Virgin and the glorious martyr 

 Thomas. 



The same confirmation charter also recites 

 the release to the canons by Beatrice after her 

 husband's death of the Hamm of Papworth, 

 then in her own power ; the gift of Prior 

 John of Aldbury of all his lands called Rede- 

 cumbe in his manor of Mienes ; ^ the gift by 

 Andrew Bukerel, citizen of London, of the 

 manor of West Bedfont (Middlesex) and his 

 estate at Stanwell ; the gift by Thomas de 

 Hertmere of the manor of Hertmere in 

 Godalming, together with rents under Guild- 

 down, and at Putlond in Compton ; and the 

 gift in 1260, by Ralph de Treyon and Alice 

 his wife, of lands in the manors of Burnham 

 and Kirkeshye. 



It would appear however that the charter 

 of Ruald and Beatrice temp. Richard I. was 

 one of re-founding rather than founding (as 

 indeed is implied by the actual phraseology), 

 and that the canons regular of St. Austin at 

 Aldbury were of afar older establishment. The 

 register of Bishop Woodlock states in 1312 

 that the house was first founded by a Bishop 

 of Winchester. The house not unnaturally 

 gradually changed its name from Aldbury to 

 Newark or the New Place {novo loco) of St. 

 Thomas near Guildford. 



In 1262 the following churches were in 

 the hands of this priory : — Woking, with its 



known as the prior or master, and under that name 

 paid 6d. a year as quit rent to the lord of the manor 

 of Stoke. (Manning and Bray, vol. i. p. 19). 

 The land however was reckoned as part of 

 the manor of Poyle, now in the hands of 

 Smith's Charity Trustees, and the house behind it 

 is known as Poyle or Spital House. One sick 

 person, or cripple, seems to have been entertained 

 here still in the eighteenth century (see Manning 

 and Bray, cited above). 



1 Cited at length, Monasticon, vi. 383-4. 



2 This gift was confirmed by Bishop Pontoise 

 in 1285, and by Bishop Woodlock in 13 12. 



chapels of Horsell and Pyrford ; Leigh ; 

 Send ; St. Martha, Guildford ; Wanborough ; 

 Shipton ; Weybridge ; and Windlesham, with 

 its chapel.^ 



In 1279 Robert the prior was summoned 

 to justify his claim to hold court and view of 

 frank-pledge at Ripley, and justified his 

 position by citing the grant made to his pre- 

 decessor. Prior Thomas, about twenty years 

 before.* 



At the same time Prior Robert made good 

 his right to free warren over his manor at 

 Newark ; to the market at Ripley (though 

 none then attended) ; and the assize of bread 

 and ale, and view of frank-pledge at Putten- 

 ham." 



John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 stayed at this priory on two or three occasions 

 about 1 28 1 and 1283, and several letters 

 from him are dated from Newark.* 



The taxation roll of 1291 shows that the 

 temporalities pertaining to this priory were at 

 that date considerable. The priory held 

 tenements or rents in ten London parishes, 

 producing an income of ^^ lbs. 2,d. ; else- 

 where in that diocese their temporalities pro- 

 duced ;^7 4J. 1 1^. ; in Rochester diocese they 

 amounted to £i bs. ; and in Winchester 

 diocese to the large sum of ^^27 10^. 3^^. 



During the rule of Alexander Culmeston 

 an elaborately appointed chantry was founded 

 in Newark Priory. On 20 November 1382, 

 John Newdigate and Laurencia, the widow of 

 Peter atte Wode, assigned ^^6 14J. rents of 

 the priory and convent of Stoke, with the 

 assent of the abbot of Bee in Normandy, 

 which rent the priory of Stoke were accus- 

 tomed to receive of the priory of Newark, 

 for the founding of a chantry of one canon 

 in priest's orders in the conventual church of 

 Newark, for the good estate of the king and 

 Bishop Wykeham, and of Laurencia whilst 

 living, and of the soul of Peter, and the souls of 

 the king, bishop and Laurencia when dead. It 

 was ordained that this chantry mass should be 

 celebrated every Saturday at the Lady altar 

 with special collect ; that the priory were to 

 find all things needful, such as vestments, 

 ornaments, book, light, bread, wine, chalice, 

 altar cloth, and napkin, and a suitable clerk 

 to serve ; that the canon thus celebrating 

 should be entitled each week to ']d. from the 

 rents at the hands of the prior ; that the 



3 Certified from episcopal registers, not now 

 extant, by Bishop Waynflete in 1464. 



4 Plac de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 737. 

 6 Ibid. p. 747. 



« Reg. Epstolarum, J. Peckham (Rolls Ser.), 

 i. 196, 197 ; ii. 548, 549, 764, 1018. 



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