A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



the new see of Chester. Not content with 

 the south part of the church, which had always 

 been set apart for their use, the parishioners 

 purchased the whole. The priory's Irish manor 

 of Kilrush was granted in 1558 to Thomas, earl 

 of Ormond."' 



Priors of Cartmel 



Daniel,'^' occurs between 1194 and 1 198 



William,-"^ occurs 1205 and 1208 



Absalon,"' occurs 1 22 1 and 1230 



Simon,"' occurs 1242 (?) 



Richard,^^' occurs 1250 



John "« 



William of Walton,"' occurs 1279, 1292, and 



I299(?) 

 Simon,'^ occurs 1334 

 William of Kendal,^" occurs July, 1354 

 Richard of Kellet,!^^ died 1380 

 William Lawrence,'^' elected 138 1, deprived 



(?) 1390, died after December, 1396 

 William, '^^ occurs 1441 

 William Hale/-' occurs 1497-8, 1501 



'" Cal. of Pat. (Ireland), i, 385. The grant in- 

 cluded a castle, gardc;n, six messuages, 360 acres of 

 arable land and eleven cottages. A cell of Kilrush is 

 spolcen of in Gregory IX's bull of 1233 (Baines, op. 

 cit. V, 628). The canons sent to manage the Irish 

 estates doubtless resided here. 



'" Lanes. Pipe R. 339 ; County Placita (Chancery), 

 Lane. No. 26. 



'" Lanes. Pipe R. 36; ; Hist, of Lane. Ch. (Chet. 

 See), 386 ; Lanes. Final Cone. 39 ; Beck, Ann. Fum. 

 169 ; .A.dJ. MS. 332+4, fol. 60 ; Harl. MS. 3764, 

 fol. 58J. 



'" Ibid. fol. 38 ; Fumess Coueher, 442 ; Add. 

 MS. 33244, fol. 118. 



"• Stockdale, Ann. of Cartmel (1872), 13. It is 

 possible, however, that an error in the date has dupli- 

 cated the later prior of this name. 



'" Lanes. Final Cone, i, III. 



"* Duchy of Lane. Anct. D., L. 290. 



'" Lanes. Final Cone, i, 156 ; Assize R. Edw. I, 

 Lane. m. 53 dorso. In 1334 a jury found that he 

 presented to the rectory of Whittington in 27 Edw. I 

 (County Placita (Chancery), Lane. No. 26). His 

 tombstone is still in the church. 



"° Coram Rege R. 298, m. 27. Simon or a suc- 

 cessor seems to have died in I 349 ; Pat. 23 Edw. Ill, 

 pt. 3, m. 25. 



'" Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 3, m. i. 



'" CaL of Pat. 1377-S1, p. 584. 



'" Ibid. 584, 605, 620. Licence by the crown 

 (as guardian of John de Hastings) to elect, 22 Jan. 

 1381 ; r0)al assent to election of W. L. signified to 

 archdeacon of Richmond, 26 Feb. ; mandate to Duke 

 of Lancaster to restore the temporalities to Lawrence, 

 whose election has been confirmed by the archdeacon 

 and whose fealty the abbot of Fumess is ordered to 

 take, 24 Apr. 



'" Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 3, m. 21. 



'" Ibid. 86, m. 3 ^.; MS. Corp. Christi Cant. 170, 

 fol. 123 ; Tanner, AV;V. AfoB. sub Cartmel. A prior 

 WiUiam who can hardly be Hale occurs 14.66-7 (Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 28, m. 11 d.). 



Miles Burre,'''*' occurs 28 September, 1504, 



and 2 February, 1 5 09 

 James Grigg,'" occurs 1522, died before 



1535 

 Richard Preston,^' occurs 1535, surrendered 



1536 



The seal of the priory is attached to a docu- 

 ment, apparently of the thirteenth century, among 

 the Duchy records in the Rolls Office. It repre- 

 sents the Virgin seated, with the infant Christ 

 in her lap. The Virgin is crowned and has in 

 her left hand a staff with a dove on top. Part 

 only of the legend remains, viz. : 



IGIL 



VEN 



MARIE . DE . KERMELE ' 



148 



Leland attributes to the priory the arms of the 

 Marshals slightly varied."" 



10. THE PRIORY OF BURSCOUGH 



The Augustinian priory of Burscough was 

 founded about 11 90 by Robert son of Henry, 

 lord of Lathom and Knowsley, and endowed 

 with land in Burscough, the whole adjoining 

 township of Marton, the advowsons of three 

 churches — Ormskirk, Huyton, and Flixton — the 

 chapel of St. Leonard of Knowsley, and all the 

 mills on his demesne."^ The presence of the 

 prior of the Augustinian house at Norton, near 

 Runcorn, as a witness, coupled with the fact 

 that Knowsley was held of its patron, the con- 

 stable of Chester, makes it not unlikely that the 

 first canons of Burscough came from the Cheshire 

 priory."'' Simon, the founder's father-in-law, 

 became a brother of the house.^'' 



Hugh, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, con- 

 firmed the charter, as did his immediate succes- 



"° Duchy of Lane. Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 4, Nos. 

 7 and 12. 



'" Ibid. ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, iii (2), 2578. 



'" Val. Eecl. v, 272 ; see above, p. 146. In the 

 church is the tombstone of a prior whose black letter 

 inscription (probably of a date between 1350 and 

 1530), now illegible, was read by Whitaker {Hist, of 

 Richmond) as 'Hie jacet Wills. Br. . . . quondam Prior.' 



'" Dugdale, Mon. vi, 554. A twelfth-century seal 

 with counterseal representing St. Michael and the 

 Dragon is in the British Museum ; Cat. of Seals, i, 

 496. Also the seal of a Prior William (ibid.). 



'*■ Collectanea, i, 102. 



"' Foundation charter in the register of the priory 

 (P.R.O. Duchy of Lanes. Misc. Bks. No. 6, fol. i) ; 

 the charter is printed by Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 349. 

 Its date lies between July, 11 89, when John, count 

 of Mortain, who is included in the movent clause, 

 received the honour of Lancaster, and November, 

 1191, the date of Bishop Hugh de Nonant's con- 

 firmation ; Reg. of Burscough, fol. 683. 



'" Farrer, op. cit. 352. Prior Henry and Robert, 

 archdeacon of Chester, attested Bishop Hugh's con- 

 firmation as well as the founder's charter. 



^ Lanes. Final Cone. (Rec. Soc), ii, 138. 



