A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



decision of 1479, and the verdict of a local jury 

 was in his favour'" but Syon appears in possession 

 in 1527." After the dissolution of the abbey in 

 1540 the bulk of the priory estate was sold by 

 the crown in 1557 to Robert Dalton of Bispham 

 for ^1,667." 



The priory was dedicated to St. Mary. 

 Its original endowment included, besides the 

 churches and tithes already enumerated, the 

 manors of AldclifFe and Newton," one third 

 of the vill of Heysham,'* and the whole vill 

 of Poulton-le-Fylde." The most considerable 

 later addition was the gift by Thomas of 

 Capernwray, escheator of the county of Lan- 

 caster about the middle of the thirteenth 

 century, of all his land in Bolton and Gress- 

 ingham.'' Conveyances of numerous small 

 parcels of land, chiefly in the parishes of Lan- 

 caster and Poulton, are recorded in the register 

 of the priory. 



Its temporalities were taxed in 1292 at ;^4, re- 

 duced after the Scottish raid to 30^.'' In a docu- 

 ment of 1367 its total assessment for the tithe is 

 given as jTSo.'' This must be taken as net income, 

 which will agree pretty well with the amount of 

 rent exacted by the crown during the French 

 wars, £b() 131. \d.f rising by 141 3 to j^iio.^' 

 The gross income in 1430, just before Syon 

 obtained possession, amounted to ^^326 2i. ?>d.^ 

 No complete estimate of the expenditure 

 in money is supplied. On the dissolution of 

 Syon Abbey ' the late priory of Lancaster ' was 

 valued among its possessions at ;^2i6 131. 8</." 



Priors of Lancaster 



John," occurs c. i 141 



Nicholas,'^ occurs between 1 153 and 1 192 



" Exch. Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. vol. 39, No. 130 ; 

 Add. MS. 32108, No. 50, m. 7. 



" Duchy of Lane. Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 5, 

 Xo. 15. 



'' Hist. 0/ Lane. Ch. 595. 



'^ Together 2 plough-lands ; Testa de Nevill, ii, fol. 

 83+. 



" Lanes. Pipe R. 290 ; Hist, of Lane. Ch. 478. 



'•^ Ibid. 480, 483. See above, p. 168. 



"Hist, of Lam. Ch. 156, 253 ; Confirmed by 

 Earl Edmund in 1273 ; ibid. 256. 



" Pope Niih. Tax. 309. 



^' Dugdale, Mon. vi, 998. It is difficult, however, 

 to reconcile this figure with the details given in Pope 

 Nich. Tax. 



^' See above, p. 171. 



*" Duchy of Lane. Rentals and Surv. R. 378. 

 The great tithes produced ^^ 1 5 3 13/. ^d., pensions 

 from churches and monasteries ^^25 13/. 4^., small 

 tithes £,~2 los. <)d. and temporalities j^74 5/. '^d. 

 In 1527 Sion was said to be drawing X'°° a year 

 from the rectory of Lancaster alone ; ibid. ptfo. 5, 

 No. 15. 



■' Duchy of Lane. Mins. Accts. No. 33, m. 26. 



" Lanes. Pipe R. 276. 



" Round, Cal. Doe. France, 239. 



William," occurs between 11 88 and 11 92 



and in 1204 

 John de Alench',** occurs between 1207 and 



1227, died 1230 (?) 

 Geoffrey,'* occurs 1 24 1 

 Garner,"*' occurs 1250 

 William de Reio (Reo),** occurs 1253 and 



1256 

 Ralph de Trun,*' instituted 1266, occurs 



1287 

 John 'le Ray,"° instituted 1290, occurs 



1299 

 Fulcher,'^ occurs 1305 and 1309 

 Nigel,'^ occurs 1315 and 1323 

 [William de Bohun," occurs 1327] 

 Ralph Courait,*^ occurs 1329 and 1334 

 Emery de Argenteles,"" occurs 1337-42 

 John de Coudray (de Condreto),'* occurs 



1344-5 

 Peter Martin,'' occurs 1352, res. 1366 



" Hist, of Lane. Ch. (Chet. Soc), 112; Lanes. Final 

 Cone. (Rec. See), i, 23, 151. 



" Possibly Alenfon 1 3 miles south of S6es ; B.M. 

 Add. MS. 33244, fol. 60 ; P.R.O. Anct. D. 

 iii, B. 3905 (which gives the surname) ; Ca/. Close, 

 I 2 1 7—3 1 , p. 460. There may, however, have been 

 two priors called John at this period. See a charter 

 falling between 1205 and 1225 witnessed by Johannes 

 Rcdufus, prior of Lancaster ; Coekersand Chartul. 

 922. 



" Hist of Lane. Ch. 32, 39, 306, 430 ; Lanes. Final 

 Cone. \, 82. He was probably the prior elected in 

 1230. See above, p. 169. 



"Exch. Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. vol. 40, No. 6; 

 Hist, of Lane. Ch. 47 (the date 1 259 on p. 45 is an 

 error for 1250). 



*" Probably Ri, a hamlet about 20 miles north-west 

 of S6es ; Hist, of Lane. Ch. 34, 104, 410, 489. 



" A village some 22 miles north of Sdes ; Hist, of 

 Lane. Ch. 35, 474. Mr. Roper (ibid. 771) inserts a 

 Geoffrey after Ralph, but the passages adduced evi- 

 dently refer to a predecessor, probably the prior 

 mentioned under I 241. 



""Dictus Rex'; Hist, of Lane. Ch., 85, 88, 

 475-6. He became abbot of S^es ; Assize R. 423, 

 m. 2. 



"Ibid.; Exch. Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. vol. 33, 

 No. 202. 



" Duchy of Lane. Anct. D., L. 345 ; Hist, of Lane. 

 Ch.^77. 



" Only mentioned by Croston {Hist, of Lanes, v, 

 467), who gives no authority. 



" Erroneously called Adam {Hist, of Lane. Ch. 471) 

 and Richard (Dugdale, Mon. vi, 997) ; Hist, of Lane. 

 Ch. 460 ; Cat. of Anct. D. ii, B. 2945. 



" Cal. of Close, 1337-9, p. 162 ; Cal. of Pat. 

 1340-3, P- 388. 



^ Possibly Coudray near Les Andelys ; Exch. Aug. 

 Off. Misc. Bb. vol. 32, No. 75 ; Cal of Close, 1343-6, 

 PP- 43 5, 482, 636. He probably died in 1 349 ; Engl. 

 Hist. Rev. V, 525. 



" Duchy of Lane. Assize R., class xxv, 2, No. 374. 

 Provided to the abbacy of S^es by Pope Urban V 

 in 1366 ; Dugdale, Mon. vi, 998; cf. Neustria Pia, 

 582. 



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