RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



about ;^52, seven churches and the chapel of 

 Drigg at a little over £ll^ and after all deduc- 

 tions the clear annual income of the house was 

 estimated to be £,<^']^'^ The commissioners who 

 made a re-valuation at the Dissolution raised it 

 to ;^i6i 5f. C)d.^^ They valued the bells and 

 lead at ;^44 i8j., and movable goods at over 

 j^288. The debts owed by the house were nearly 



m- 



Thomas Burgoyn, one of the commissioners, 

 sought to purchase the site of the priory and 

 other lands,** but the negotiations fell through, 

 and the demesne lands were at first farmed by 

 Lord Monteagle, and in 1547 granted to Sir 

 William Paget.*' 



Priors of Conishead 



R. prior,** occurs between 1 1 94 and 1 1 99. 

 Thomas,*' occurs before May, 1206, and in 



1208 

 John,^" occurs 1235 and 1258-9 

 Thomas of Morthyng,"^ occurs between 1272 



and 1292 

 Robert,'^' occurs 1292 

 William Fleming,'^ occurs 1309 and 13 18 

 John,^' occurs March 1343 

 Richard of Bolton,^* occurs 1373, 1376, and 



1401 

 John Conyers,*' occurs c. 1430 



" Duchy of Lane. Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 5, No. 2; 

 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 271. In 1390 the esti- 

 mated income had been 340 marks ; Cal. Pap. Letters, 

 iv, 367. This was no doubt the gross amount, but 

 even allowing for this there seems to have been a con- 

 siderable drop subsequently, if the figure is correct. 



" Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 5, No. 7. The increase 

 was cliiefly on the churches. In a rental of Sept. 1536 

 (ibid. No. 1 1 ) the temporalities figure at £60, the 

 spiritualities at ^i 10, so that the estimate of the pre- 

 vious May had been more than realized. Ulverston 

 ■church was farmed at just double the amount (;^2l) 

 at which it was valued in 1534-5. This was said to 

 leave the farmers a profit of j^io ; ibid. No. 8. Easter 

 offerings and tithes realized three times as much as the 

 estimate of 1535. 



** Duchy of Lane. Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 5, No. 9. 



" Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xxiii, i o d. 



*' Lanes. Pipe R. 339. 



*' Ibid. 362 ; Cockersand Chartul. 1039 ; Hist, of 

 Lane. Ch. (Chet. Soc), 385-6. 



'° Lanes. Final Coneords, i, 63 ; Duchy of Lane. Anet. 

 D., L. 590 ; Coram Rege R. 1 60, m. 9 d., 187, m. 44. 



" Duchy of Lane. Anet. D., L. 564. 



"^ Assize R. 408 m. 40 d. A predecessor named 

 John is referred to. 



" Duchy of Lane. Anet. D., L. 565 ; Cal. 0/ Pat. 

 1307-13, p. 246 ; Pat. 12 Edw. II, pt. I, m. 22. 



^ Assize R. 1435, m. 41. 



" Duchy of Lane. Anet. D., L. 1 1 9 1 , 1 1 2 7. This 

 assumes that prior Richard of 140 1 (Lanes. Plea R. 

 No. I, m. 266) is Richard de Bolton. 



" Co. Plae. Div. Cos. No. 34. Described as late 

 prior on 9 April, 143 1. 



John,'* occurs 1505 and 1507 



George Carnforth,"' occurs 15 15-16, pen- 

 sioned 1527 



Thomas Lord,"* occurs 1535, surrendered 

 1536 



9. PRIORY OF CARTMEL 



The Augustinian priory of Cartmel was 

 founded shortly after the accession of Richard I 

 by William Marshal, afterwards earl of Pem- 

 broke.'° He endowed the house with the whole 

 district of Cartmel, between Leven and Winster, 

 granted to him out of the demesne of the 

 honour of Lancaster by Henry II in 11 85 or 

 1186,'" and confirmed by his son John, count of 

 Mortain, on his investment with the honour by 

 Richard I immediately after his accession ; '' 

 John also giving Marshal permission to found a 

 house of religion there and endow it with the 

 entire fief.*^ 



The first canons were brought from the priory 

 of Bradenstoke near Malmesbury in Wiltshire,*' 

 founded in 1 1 42 by Walter of Salisbury, whose 

 grandson, William earl of Salisbury, was one 

 of the witnesses to Marshal's charter. This, 

 however, expressly excluded any dependence 

 upon the mother house. Included in the original 

 endowment was the parish church of Cartmel and 

 its chapels. With the consent of the ordinary 

 the old church, dedicated to St. Michael, was 

 appropriated to the use of the canons, pulled 

 down and replaced by the new priory church of 

 St. Mary, in which an altar of St. Michael was 



^' Duchy of Lane. Misc. bdle. 158, No. 22 ; Rentals 

 and Surv. ptfo. 4, No. 4. 



" Probably resigned. His pension of ^10 (with 

 food and drink to amount of ^^5 a year) was granted 

 15 June, 1527 ; ibid. ptfo. 5, No. 11. He was alive 

 in 1536 ; ibid. 



^^ Fahr Eeel. (Rec. Com.), v, 271. Became vicar 

 of Orton (ibid.). According to Nieolson and Burn . 

 {Hist. ofWestmld. and Cumb. i, 483) he was vicar in 

 1534, but quaere. 



" The original charter is lost, but is recited in an 

 inspeximus of 17 Edw. II ; Lanes. Pipe Rolls, 341. 

 Tanner and Dugdale, owing to a misdating of a final 

 concord which really belongs to 1208, assign it to 

 1 1 88, but its mention of Marshal's wife makes it later 

 than his marriage in Aug. 1189 ; ibid. 70. Com- 

 parison with John's two charters {post) renders it 

 probable that the grant belongs to the late months of 

 that year or to n 90, and certainly not later than 

 1 194. 



*° Ibid. 66, 70. It contained 9 earueates worth 

 ^£32 a year. 



*' Ibid. 343. Robert de Breteuil, one of the wit- 

 nesses, became earl of Leicester in Aug. 1 1 90, and 

 was invested with the earldom I Feb. 1 1 9 1 . 



^* Harl. Chart. 83, A. 27. Probably preceded the 

 foundation charter, though Mr. Farrer {Lanes. Pipe 

 R. 345) places it ' shortly after.' 



«' Testa de Nevill, ii, fol. 835. 



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