RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



best. The result was that the bishop an- 

 nulled the election of Lawrence, and on 5 

 November appointed the sub-pripr, John 

 Combe.* 



Prior Combe died in 1415. The Win- 

 chester institutions are unfortunately missing 

 from 1415 to 1447. In 1449 the priory 

 was vacant, for on 27 September Bishop 

 Waynflete appointed Henry Swetenham, a 

 canon of Norton in Cheshire, to act as tem- 

 porary administrator.* The appointment of 

 the priors of this house was, so far as there is 

 evidence, either by lapse or deputation, left to 

 the bishop. 



In 15 1 2 the priory was vacant and the 

 numbers of the brethren reduced, for which 

 reasons the bishop collated to the vicarage of 

 Dorking, which was in their gift.^ 



The clear annual value of the priory in 

 1535 was j^68 16s. yd. In that year there 

 were three canons in residence in addition to 

 the prior. The monastery was suppressed 

 on the feast of St. Anne, 26 July 1536,* 

 John Lymden, the prior, obtaining a pen- 

 sion of ;^io.* The three canons possibly at 

 once obtained benefices ; at all events they 

 received no pensions. 



Priors of Reigate 



Adam,' circa 1298 



R. de Froyle,^ resigned 1309 



Walter de Timberden, elected 1309,* died 



1337 

 John atte Greth, collated 1337,^ resigned 



1341 

 John de Pyrie, collated 1341,^° 1349 

 Robert de Scoteny, elected 1349, resigned 



1367 

 John Kente, collated 1367," died 1374 

 Richard Warnham, collated 1374,'^ died 



1395 

 John Yakesley, collated 1395,*' resigned 



1397 

 John Combe, collated 1397," died 1415 

 John Hervest, resigned 1452 



1 Kirby's Wykeham^s Registers (Hants Record 

 Soc), i. 212-3. 



2 Winton. Epis. Reg., Waynflete, ii. f. 5. 



3 Ibid. Fox, iii. f. 8b. 



« L. and P. Hen. VIII. ix. 798. 



? Aug. Misc. Books, vol. ccxxxii. f. 28b. 



8 Cox's Mag. Brit. iv. 448. 



' Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, f. 104, ii6b, 

 147. 



8 Ibid. III. » Ibid. Orlton, i. f. 65b. 



'0 Ibid.i.f. loib. " Ibid. Wykeham, i. f . 7. 



" Ibid.i.f. 5. " Ibid.i.f. 252. 



"Kirby's Wykeham' s Registers (Hants Rec. 

 Soc), i. 212-3. 



HenrySwetenham, collated 1453,1' resigned 



1459 

 John Morton, collated 1460, resigned 



1468 

 John de Aspley, collated 1468" 

 Alexander Shott, circa 1496 

 William Major, occurs 1517, resigned 



1530 

 John Lymden, elected 1530," surrendered 



1536 



8. THE PRIORY OF SOUTHWARK 



The original name of this priory, St. Mary 

 Overy, signified St. Mary over the river. 

 Stowe recites a tradition, which he had from 

 the lips of Linsted, the last prior, that, long 

 before the Conquest, there was at Southwark 

 a house of sisters endowed with the profits of 

 a ferry across the Thames ; but that after- 

 wards it was converted into a college of 

 priests who, in the place of the ferry, built 

 the first wooden bridge over the Thames and 

 kept it in repair. This tradition, however, 

 is not supported by any known authority. 

 Whatever may have been the nature of any 

 earlier foundation on the same site, it was in 

 the year 1106 that the order of regular or 

 Austin canons was established at St. Mary's, 

 Southwark.*® 



The founders or refounders at this date 

 were William Pont d'Arch and William 

 Dauncey, two Norman knights. It is said 

 that Bishop Giiiard lent them much assistance, 

 and in 11 07 built the nave of the church; 

 hence he was sometimes termed the founder. 



The principal grants that were made to 

 the canons in the twelfth century were the 

 church of St. Margaret, Southwark, by Henry 

 I., lands at Banstead by Mansel de Mowbray ; 

 two weighs of cheese at ' Badleking ' in the 

 manor of Kingston Lisle in Berkshire ; 

 lands at ' Waleton ' by Alexander Fitzgerald; 

 60 acres of land at ' Wadeland,' Foots Cray, 

 by William de Warren ; the tithe of his farm 

 at Southwark, and confirmation of grant of a 

 stone building which had belonged to William 

 de Pont d'Arch, by King Stephen ; the 

 church of All Saints, Graveney, confirmed 

 to them by Archbishop Lanfranc ; and five 

 city churches and many other advowsons 

 from divers donors.*' 



« Winton. Epis. Reg., Waynflete, ii. ff. 47b, 

 48,96. 



18 Ibid. ii. f. 160, etc. 



" Winton. Epis. Reg., Wolsey, f. 63b. 



18 Ann. Mon. (Rolls Series), iii. 430, iv. 374. 



i» These benefactions and several others are set 

 forth in detail by Manning and Bray {Hist, of 

 Surrey, iii. 562-5) ; original transcripts or ab- 



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