RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



the master's lodgings ; (ii) a granary ; and 

 ( 1 2) a stable and dovecote.^ 



Probably there was an old hospital here for 

 the poor, to which the chapel of Edward, 

 and subsequently of John Lovekin, formed 

 an adjunct. When Queen Elizabeth, in 

 1561, founded a free school here, it was said 

 to be founded on the site of the old chapel 

 and hospital. The chapel was turned into 

 the schoolroom. 



The Collegiate Chapel of St. Mary 



Magdalen, Kingston. 



Chaplains (First Foundation) 



Ralph de Stanle, instituted 1 3 1 0* 

 John de Fre, instituted 1326 

 Peter de Lincoln, instituted 1331 

 Stephen de Stoke Goldington, resigned 



133s 

 Robert de Fekenham, instituted 1335 

 John de Witham, instituted 1337 

 Walter Cok of Fenny Stratford, instituted 



1344 



Wardens (Second Foundation) 

 Elias de Bodeland,^ resigned 1367 

 Robert Simonde of Bikenore, instituted 



1367,* resigned 1394 

 Reginald Jurdan, instituted 1394, resigned 



1403 

 John Hals, instituted 1403, ° resigned 



1404 

 John Scarburghe, instituted 1 404 ° 

 Richard Bowden, instituted 1405 ' 

 John Gorsuch, died 1448 

 William Sharp, instituted 1448 

 William Frome, instituted 145 1 

 Peter Baxter, instituted 1464 

 Edmund Hampden, instituted 1476 

 Hugh Meredith, instituted 1485 

 William Carpenter, instituted 1485 

 William Kyrkeby, resigned 1522 

 Edmund Thurland, instituted 1522 

 Charles Carew, instituted 1 535-1 54° 



17. COLLEGE OF LAMBETH 

 Archbishop Baldwin (1185-90) proposed 



1 Letters patent 26 April 1547, cited by Man- 

 ning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. 



2 All the chaplains of the first foundation are 

 taken from Manning and Bray, Hist, of Sun., i . 3 5 1 , 

 quoting from the Winchester Registers. 



3 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, i. f. 6. 



* Ibid. Simonde became one of the chaplains 

 of the house. Ibid. 228. 



6 Ibid. i. f. 341. 



« Ibid. i. f. 348b. 



' The names of the following wardens are taken 

 from Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr., i. 355. 



to found a college of secular canons, dedicated 

 to the honour of his predecessor St. Thomas 

 the Martyr, at Haddington, near Canterbury. 

 But the project met with such strenuous 

 opposition from the monks of Christ Church 

 that he was forced to abandon the attempt. 

 Desirovis however of fulfilling his intention 

 elsewhere, he obtained a site at Lambeth 

 from the bishop and chapter of Rochester, 

 and there the archbishop built himself a 

 house and a church in honour of St. Thomas. 

 In 1 1 88 Baldwin began to build a fine 

 chapel, intending to make it collegiate, with 

 houses for the canons in an adjoining quad- 

 rangle ; but soon after he went to the Holy 

 Land, where he died. His successor, Hubert 

 Walter (1193-1205), completed the chapel 

 in 1 199 together with the buildings for some 

 of the canons ; but the opposition of the 

 Canterbury monks was so strenuous and their 

 influence at Rome so great, that Innocent III. 

 in April 11 98 ordered the demolition of the 

 chapel and the suspension of the clergy there 

 officiating. The matter was referred to 

 arbitration, and in 1202 the archbishop was 

 allowed if he willed to form at Lambeth a 

 foundation of not less than thirteen nor more 

 than twenty canons regular of Pr6montr6. 

 But this permission was never acted upon, 

 and the short-lived project of a college at 

 Lambeth came to an end.^ 



18. THE COLLEGE OF LINGFIELD 

 The chief founder of this college was 

 Reginald Lord Cobham. On 16 March 1431 

 license was granted to the abbot and convent 

 of Hyde, who were the patrons of Lingfield 

 Church, to cede the advowson of the parish 

 church to Sir Reginald Cobham, William 

 Crowmere, John Arderne, and John Bay- 

 hall, to convert it into a collegiate church, 

 consisting of six chaplains, one of whom 

 should govern as master of the collegiate 

 church of St. Peter of Lingfield, and four 

 clerks, together with thirteen poor persons, 

 for the good estate of Reginald and his 

 coadjutors and all other benefactors whilst 

 living and for their souls after death. The 

 college was to have a common seal, and to 

 hold a messuage in Southwark on payment to 

 the abbey of a rent of 20J. At the same 

 time license was granted to Reginald and the 

 others to transfer the advowson and rectory 

 of this church to the newly founded college.^ 



8 Manning and Bray's Hist, of Sufr. iii. 469-70; 

 Tanner's Notitia, under Lambeth, Surrey ; Twys- 

 den's Decern Scriftores, 705, 708, etc. ; J?in. Man. 

 (Rolls Ser.), ii. 77-8. 



» Pat. 9 Hen. VI. pt. ii. m. 6. 



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