A HISTORY OF SURREY 



century represents a Icing standing, with 

 crown having loose straps ending in trefoils 

 as in the great seal of William II. ; in the 

 hands is an inscribed scroll (illegible). 

 Legend : sigillum sce marie svdwerken- 

 sis eccl'ie. 



Of the second seal' of the twelfth century 

 there are only imperfect impressions. 



Obverse : The Blessed Virgin on a throne, 

 with Holy Child on left knee, and a fleur de lis 

 in right hand ; within a pointed oval in- 

 scribed : AVE : MARIA : gracia : plena : 

 DNS : TECUM : BENEDiCTA. Legend : sio 



E : SAN ERCHA. 



Reverse : A small counterseal of an angel 

 issuing from clouds. Legend : ave : mater : 



MISERICORDIE. 



The third seal," used by Prior Henry 

 Collingbourne in 1375, and by Prior Robert 

 Weston in 1414, is pointed oval, and has 

 canopied niches, within which are the 

 crowned Virgin and Child, St. John Baptist 

 with Agnus Dei, and St. John the Evangelist 

 with eagle. In the base is the prior kneeling. 

 The legend is destroyed. 



Of a seal ad causas,^ used in 1383, there is 

 only an imperfect impression, of which the 

 lower half is wanting. It is a pointed oval, 

 and represents the Annunciation. Legend : 



.... GILL . BE K. AD : CAUSAS. 



A seal used by Prior Henry Werkworth in 

 1422, bears the crowned seated Virgin and 

 Holy Child. The impression is imperfect.* 



9. THE PRIORY OF TANDRIDGE 



This priory," as was the case with many of 

 the smaller Austin priories throughout the 

 country, was originally founded as a hospital 

 for priests and poor brethren and sisters. It 

 was dedicated to the honour of St. James and 

 founded about the end of the twelfth century, 

 for three priests under the Austin rule and 

 several poor brethren. Odo,the son of William 

 de Dammartin, was the founder and a consider- 

 able benefactor. The two charters of Odo 

 cited in the Monasticon' only name him as a 

 benefactor. By these he gave to the hospital 



' Dugdale's Mon., vi. 171. 



^ Add. Chart. 15672 ; Harl. Chart. 53, H 16. 



3 Harl. Chart. 43,1.43. 



* Harl. Chart. 44, i. 58. 



" There is a long article on ' Tandridge Priory 

 and the Austin Canons,' by Major Healey, in 

 Surrey Arch. Coll. Lx. pp. 19-15 1. A variety of 

 documents and extracts from the Winchester 

 Registers are there cited at length. Much of the 

 article is concerned with the order of Austin Canons 

 in general. 



» Dugdale, Mon., vi. 604. 



of St. J.imcs all his land in Warlingham, with 

 the windmill and all appurtenances together 

 with all his relics, two silver cups wherewith 

 to make a chalice, with all vestments and 

 books belonging to his chapel, and all his 

 stock of cattle at Southwick. One of the 

 witnesses to the second of these charters is 

 Thomas de Wllst, prior of Merton, who held 

 that ofBce from 1218 to 1222. But a charter 

 of Walter, prior of Merton, dated June 121 7, 

 definitely names Odo as the founder of this 

 hospital, and admits him, and all the brethren 

 and sisters and benefactors of the hospital into 

 the fraternity of the house of Merton.'' 



In June 1285 licence was granted for the 

 alienation in mortmain by William de Acstede 

 to the prior and convent of Tandridge of a 

 carucate of land in Oxted.* 



The taxation roll of 1291 returns the 

 annual value of the temporalities of this small 

 house, at Warlingham, at £^2 ts. 8d. The 

 parish church of Tandridge was at the same 

 time declared of the annual value of ^{^6 13;. 4^/. 

 This rectory was soon afterwards appropriated 

 to the priory. In November 1302 the prior 

 and convent obtained licence to hold the 

 advowson of the church of Crowhurst, the 

 gift of Henry de Guildford.' 



Bishop Woodlock visited the priory on 21 

 November 1308. A month later he for- 

 warded elaborate orders to the prior and con- 

 vent. No special laxity was charged against 

 the house, and the orders were of the usual 

 character, namely as to attendance at mass 

 and the quire ofBces, silence, keeping the 

 doors, uniform habit, uncurtained beds in the 

 dormitory, etc. This episcopal confirmation 

 of their rule was ordered to be read in chapter 

 four times a year.*" 



In an episcopal certificate as to vacant 

 preferments dated 2 February 1309, it is 

 stated that the income of this priory barely 

 sufficed for the support of its ministers.^' 



The house suffered much under the negli- 

 gent rule of Prior Thomas de St. Alban, and 

 on 22 November 13 12 Charles de Seggeford, 



' Cott. MS. Cleop. C vii. f 86. 



B Pat. i3Edw. I.m. 16. 



» Pat. 30 Edw. I. m. 3. 



" Winton. Epis. Reg., Woodlock, ff. 148-9. 

 This register contains full accounts of the dismissal 

 by the bishop in 1308-9 of Henry de Pecham, 

 cellarer of the priory ; he was sent to the priory 

 of Newark, there to be kept in solitary confine- 

 ment, the priory of Tandridge paying izd. a week 

 for his maintenance. After four months' absence 

 Henry was permitted to return to Tandridge. All 

 these documents are set forth at length in an 

 appendix to Major Heale's article. 



" Ibid. f. loib. 



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