RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



over ; John de Lechlade ; Roger de Wynton, 

 sub-prior ; Roger de Reygate, cellarer (erased) ; 

 Sytnon de Westminster ; John de Cantuar ; 

 John de Northampton ; John de Wynton, 

 sub-cellarer ; Robert de Kancia, cellarer ; 

 Robert de Wells ; and John de Ardenere.' 



In May 1313 the prior and convent of 

 Southwark obtained licence for the appropri- 

 ation in mortmain of the church of Newdi- 

 gate, which was of their advowson.^ 



Henry de Cobham, keeper of certain of 

 the late Templars' lands in Kent, Surrey and 

 Sussex, was ordered in October 1313 to pay 

 to the Bishop of Winchester the wages of 4^'. 

 a day assigned by the late Archbishop of 

 Canterbury and the whole provincial council 

 for the maintenance of Richard de Graf- 

 ton, a Templar placed in the priory to 

 do penance.^ The priory had to main- 

 tain other pensioners: thus in April 1315 

 Peter, prior of Southwark, and his chapter 

 granted to Thomas de Evesham, clerk of 

 the king's chancery, in consideration of 

 his good service to them, a yearly pension 

 of lOOs. for life out of their manor of Tad- 

 worth ; * and in October 13 19 Hugh de 

 Windsor was sent to the priory for his main- 

 tenance, in consideration of his good service 

 to Queen Isabel.^ And again a grant was 

 made by Edward III. in February 1344, at 

 the request of Richard, Earl of Arundel, who 

 would have to come to London very often 

 to treat of various matters for the king, that 

 he should lodge in the priory, and have the 

 use of suitable houses (chambers) there for 

 him and his household during the king's 

 pleasure.* 



Pardon was granted to the priory and con- 

 vent of Southwark in 13 14 for having ac- 

 quired in mortmain, without the late king's 

 licence, various shops and messuages in South- 

 wark, and lands in Mitcham, Chelsham and 

 Kidbrook ; ^ and in January 1332 a like 

 pardon was granted them for entering with- 

 out licence from the king's progenitors into 

 six marks of rent in London, bequeathed to 

 them by Sabina, late the wife of Philip le 

 Taillour, citizen of London, for daily cele- 

 bration for the souls of Philip and Sabina. 



1 Cott. MS. Faust, A viii. 49b. Another list 

 drawn up in 1298 gives a total of twenty-one, but 

 several are erased ; and another of 1302 (both on 

 f. 50b) gives nineteen. 



" Pat. 6 Edw. II. pt. ii, m. 9. 



' Close, 7 Edw. II. m. 23. 



♦ Ibid. 8 Edw. II. m. 9d. 



6 Ibid. 13 Edw. II. m. I5d. 



» Pat. 1 8 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 48. 



' Pat. 7 Edw. II. pt. ii, m. 23. 



8 Pat. 6 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 27. 



The Bishops of Winchester not infrequently 

 used the priory church. For instance. Bishop 

 Sandale held ordinations there in 131 6, 1317 

 and 1318 ;* on 10 March 1352 John Shep- 

 pey was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 

 this church." 



The priory was again burnt or severely 

 damaged by fire in the reign of Richard II. 

 Considerable repairs and rebuilding were at 

 once undertaken.'* The work must have been 

 accomplished by the beginning of the year 

 1390, for on 7 February Bishop Wykeham 

 commissioned his suffragan, Simon, Bishop of 

 AcJionry, to reconcile the conventual church 

 of St. Mary Overy and the annexed church of 

 St. Mary Magdalen, and to dedicate the altars 

 and graveyard.'^ To this work John Gower, 

 the poet, is said to have been a liberal con- 

 tributor. Bishop Wykeham again on 12 

 February 1391, obtained the services of John, 

 Bishop of Sodor, to reconcile the church of 

 St. Mary Overy, the adjoining parish church 

 of St. Mary Magdalen, and St. Mary's chapel 

 in the conventual farmery, and their respec- 

 tive graveyards,-after pollution by bloodshed.'^ 

 The nature of the affray or accident is not 

 known. 



The bishop gave notice on 7 January 139S 

 of his intention to visit the priory on the 

 Wednesday after the conversion of St. Paul '* 

 and in June 1397 he commissioned John 

 Elmere, the official, William Stude, an advo- 

 cate of the Court of Arches, and John de 

 Ware, to visit it.'' The result of this latter 

 visitation was that the newly appointed prior, 

 Kyngeston, was found to be suffering from so 

 serious an infirmity as to be incapable of ruling 

 his house, and that the discipline had in con- 

 sequence become very lax. The custody of 

 the house was therefore committed to the 

 sub-prior and John Stacy, another of the 

 canons, with full power of punishing excesses 

 and delinquencies. They were to call to 

 their aid, if necessary, William Stude and 

 John Ware, the bishop's visiting commis- 

 sioners. No canon was to leave the house 

 except for some grave cause and with a 

 special letter from the two custodians, under 

 pain of imprisonment. The sub-prior was 

 enjoined to have an account of rents received 

 during the last four years made up for audit : 

 and the bishop also put forth several other 



' Stubbs' Registr. Sacr. Angl, 77. 



'" SandaWs Register (Hants Rec. Soc), passim. 



" Stowe's Chronicle, 542, 597. 



'^ Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. 241b. 



" Ibid. iii. f. 249. 



" Ibid. iii. f. 279. 



" Ibid. iii. f. 293b. 



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