RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



i censor, a shippe for incense, ii cruettes, vi small 

 relicks of cristall covered with silver, an other of 

 cristall with copre and gilte, iii litle crosses of wode 

 covered with silver plait — cccxi ounces. 



There were also three bells in the steeple 

 and a clock. 



The ornaments of the church (other than 

 the plate sent to London) with the stuff and 

 utensils of the house were sold for ^^35 13J. 8^. 

 The corn, hay, and cattle and all husbandry 

 gear realized ^^2 y. 8d. 



' Rewards,' or temporary payments till the 

 pensions were paid, were given to the 

 prior of £6 13J. 4^., and 40J. to each of the 

 eight canons. Forty-one servants and hinds 

 received j^i8 6s. 8d. for their quarter's 

 wages. 



Priors of Newark 



John,' temp. Ric. I. 



Richard,^ occurs 1259 



Thomas,^ occurs circa 1259 



Robert,* 1272 



Geoffrey de London, resigned 1280 



Walter de Chapmannesford, elected 1280,* 



1281 

 Roger de Eynham, collated 131 2,' resigned 



1344 



John de Burton, collated 1 344 ^ 



Alexander Culmeston, resigned 1387 



Thomas Pyrie, elected 1387 * 



Robert Adderley ^ 



Thomas, occurs 141 5" 



William Whalley, died 1462 



Richard Brigge, elected 1462," resigned 

 i486 



Lawrence Harrison, elected 1486,*^^ re- 

 signed 1 5 14 



John Haskenne (Johnson), elected 1514^^ 



John Grave, elected 1534, occurs 1535 



Richard Lipscombe, elected 1538 



• Dugdale's Man. vi. 383-4. 



2 Cott. MS. xxvii. f. 92b 



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



* Ibid. 



» Cal. Pat. 8 Edw. L ms. 17, 7. 



6 Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, ff. 171-2. 

 His election was declared informal, but he was 

 appointed by the Bishop. 



7 Ibid. Orlton, i. fE. 126-7. 



8 Ibid. Wykeham, i. f. 182-4. 



9 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surrey, iii. 

 p. III. 



10 Mentioned in Ins-peximus of 1423, Pat. i 

 Hen. VI. pt. V. m. 21. 



11 Winton. Epis. Reg., Waynflete, i. f. 118. He 

 became prior of St. Mary Overy, Southwark. 



" Ibid.ii.f. Il8b. 



" Ibid. Fox, iii. f. 30a. 



7. THE PRIORY OF REIGATE 



The small priory of Reigate was founded 

 for Austin canons '* at the beginning of the 

 thirteenth century by William de Warren, 

 Earl of Surrey, and Isabel his wife. It was 

 dedicated to the honour of the Blessed Virgin 

 and the Holy Cross. The founder died in 

 1240. The chief of its temporalities were the 

 priory manor of Reigate and the manor of 

 Southwick in Sussex, together with various 

 tenements and rents in the parishes of Rei- 

 gate, Horley, and Burstow." The taxation of 

 1 29 1 gave the annual value of the temporali- 

 ties of this priory as £<) ^s. 8d., of which 

 6j. 8^. came from Felthorpe in Norfolk. 



William Sebem and Ralph Hosier, two 

 London citizens and benefactors of the order, 

 took upon them the religious habit under 

 Prior Adam about 1298." 



R. de Froyle resigned his office of prior 

 after a long rule on 15 March 1309. He 

 was allowed an annual pension and a chamber 

 in the house, which grant was however re- 

 sisted by his successor until the necessary 

 episcopal pressure had been applied.^' 



An order was made by the king on the 

 treasurer and barons of the exchequer in June 

 1 3 10 acquitting the master (called prior in 

 the privy seal) and brethren of the hospital of 

 the Holy Cross of Reigate of 5 5 marks that 

 had been demanded of them in part payment 

 of a debt of 100 marks, in which they were 

 bound to the late Adam de Stratton as 

 sureties of William de Radeweld.'* From 

 the title of the hospital here given, as well as 

 in one or two early evidences, it seems 

 obvious that part of the original scheme of 

 this small priory was the maintaining of the 

 poor and sick by brethren of the Austin rule. 



Confirmation was made in mortmain in 

 October 1328 of divers grants to the prior 

 and canons of Holy Cross, Reigate, namely 

 a messuage and land at Reigate, by the Earl 

 of Surrey ; a quit claim of 3;. yearly rent in 

 Nutfield, by Sir Ralph de Cobham ; and a 

 water mill at Wonham with a pond and 

 water course in East Belchworth, and 26s. 8d. 

 yearly rent there by Roger de London of 

 Reigate.** 



Licence was granted in 1334 for the 

 alienation in mortmain by the prior and con- 



>* Stevens and others are mistaken in calling this 

 a house of Crutched Friars. 



16 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surrey, i. 294-302 : 

 Dugdale, Mon. vi. 517-9. 



18 Cox's Magna Britannia, iv. /^.^8. 



" Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, S. 104, I i6b, 

 147. 



18 Close, 3 Edw. II. m. 4. 



10 Pat. 2 Edw. III. pt. ii, m. 18. 



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