Bradenham in perpetuam elemosinam, scilicet de Ricardo clerico de Skering et hæredibus suis vi. sol. de redditu meo assiso, et tres acras terræ meæ pro. ii. sol. quas Edwardus Pristre tenuit, ad quatuor anni terminos annuatim reddendos; scilicet, ad festum sancti Michaelis ii. sol. vi. ad Natale totidem, ad Pasca tantum; ad festum beati Johannis totidem. Hujus donationis et concessionis testes sunt Richardus et Quincy, Alolfus de Curres, Sagardo Sancto Petro. NUM. III.

Of the Bacon at Dunmowe Priorye.

[Ex collect. D. Richardi S. Georg. eq. aurat. armorum Regis, 1640.]

ROBERT FITZWALTER, living long beloved of King Henry the son of King John, as also of all the realme, betook himself in his latter dayes to prayer and deeds of charity, gave great and bountifull almes to the poor, kept great hospitality, and reedified the decayed prison at Dunmowe, which one Juga, a most devout and religious woman, being in her kinde his ancestor, had builded; in which prison arose a custome, begun and instituted eyther by him or some other of his successours, which is verified by a common proverbe or saying, viz. "That he which repents him not of his mariage eyther sleeping or waking in a yeer and a day, may lawfully go to Dunmowe and fetch a gammon of bacon." It is most assured, that such a custome there was, and that this bacon was delivered with such solemnity and triumphs as they of the priory and the townsmen could make. I have enquired of the manner of it, and can learne no more, but that it continued untill the dissolution of that house, as also the abbies. And that the party or pilgrim for bacon was to take his oath before prior and covent, and the whole town, humbly kneeling in the church-yard, upon two hard pointed stones, which stones some say are there yet to be seen in the prior's church-yard; his oath was ministred with such long process, and such solemne singing over him, that doubtless must make his pilgrimage (as I may terme it) painfull. After he was taken up upon men's shoulders, and carryed, first, about the priory church-yard, and after through the town with all the fryers and brethren, and all the townsfolke young and old following him with shouts and with acclamations with his bacon borne before him, and in such manner (as I have heard) was sent home with his bacon; of which I finde that some had a gammon, and others a fleeke, or a flitch; for proof whereof I have, from the records of the house, found the names of three severall persons, that at severall times had it.

Memorandum, quod quidam Stephanus Samuell de Ayston parva in com. Essex, &c. which being in Latine entred into the book belonging to the house, I have thus Englished.

"Memorandum, That one Steven Samuel of LittleAyston, in the county of Essex, husbandman, came to the priory of Dunmowe on our Lady day in Lent, in the seventh yeer of king Edward the Fourth, and required a gammon of bacon, and was sworn before Roger Bulcott, then prior, and the covent of this place; as also before a multitude of other neighbours, and there was delivered to him a gammon of bacon.'

"Memorandum, That one Richard Wright of Badbourghe, neere the city of Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, yeoman, came and required of the bacon of Dunmowe, namely the 27 day of Aprill, in the 23d yeer of the reign of King Henry the Sixth; and according to forme of the charter was sworne before John Cannon, prior of this place, and the covent, and many other neighbours, and there was delivered to him the said Richard, one flitch of bacon."

"Memorandum, That in the yeer of our Lord 1510 Thomas le Fuller, of Cogshal, in the county of Essex, came to the priory of Dunmowe, and on the eighth of September, being Sunday, in the second yeer of King Henry the Eight, he was, according to the forme of the charter sworn, before John Tils, then prior of the house, and the covent; as also before a multitude of neighbours, and there was delivered unto him the said Thomas a gammon of bacon."

Hereby it appeareth that it was according to a charter, or donation given by some conceited benefactor to the house; and it is not to be doubted but that, at such a time, the bordering townes and villages resorted, and were partakers of their pastimes, and laught to scorne the poor mans paynes.

The Form of the Oath taken by those at Dunmowe, who are to have the Bacon.

You shall swear by custom of confession,
If ever you made nuptial transgression,
Be
you either married man or wife,
If you have brawls or contentious strife;
Or otherwise at bed or at board
Offended each other in deed or word:
Or since the parish clerk said Amen,
You wished your selves unmarried agen;
Or in a twelve-moneth and a day
Repented not in thought any way;
But continued true in thought and desire,
As when you joyned hands in the quire:
If to these conditions without all feare,
Of your own accord you will freely sweare,
A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive,
And bear it hence with love and good leave:
For this is our custome at Dunmow well knowne,
Though the pleasure be ours the bacon's your own.
NUM. IV.

De Lardo apud Prioratum Dunmuensem obtinendo.
[Ibid.]

ROBERTUS FITZWALTERUS [vel, filius Walteri] jam grandævus, Henrico regi, Johannis regis filio, sed et universo populo dilectus, per posteriora vitæ suæ tempora orationibus et operibus charitatis se dicavit; amplas enim liberali manu pauperibus erogavit eleemosynas, hospitalitate præstabat, prioratum etiam Dunmuensem, à quadem Jugâ, piissimæ et religiosissimæ conversationis fœminâ, ejus quodammodo antecessore, erectum, tunc autem temporis collapsum, reædificavit. Ubi, quidam, aut ab ipso, aut à quodam successorum ejus inceptus et institutus inolevit mos, vulgari hoc proverbio confirmatus: quod videl. quem per annum et diem, sive dormientem, sive vigilantem, conjugii sui non poenituerit, Dunmuam ei ire liceat, et pernam vindicare. Certo certius est, talem olim ibi extitisse consuetudinem, lardumque istud tantis solemnitatibus et exultationibus fuisse traditum, quantas prioratus viri et oppidani excogitare! potuerunt. În modum inquisivi, nihil autem comperi, nisi quod usque in eandem domus illius cum abbatiis dissolutionis diem duraret; eumque qui lardi gratiâ peregrinabatur, juramento coram priore et conventu omnibusque oppidanis in cœmeterio super lapidum durorum, eorumque acutorum, pari (adhuc, ut quidam ferunt, ibi in prioratus cœmeterio conspiciendo:) flexis genibus humiliter præstando, oneratum fuisse. Juramentum [autem] formâ tam longâ, adeoque solemni super eum cantandi ritu, ei fuit ministratum, ut aliter vix contingere potuerit, quin peregrinationis, (si ita nominanda) magnum tædium suscipientem subiret. Postea in quorundam humeros attollebatur, et primò circa prioratus cœmeterium, posteaque per oppidum, omnibus fratribus sodalibusque ac universis oppidanis, juvenibus senibusque, cum jubilationibus et acclamationibus eum sequentibus, lardo etiam ante eum gestato, ferebatur, ac eodem (ut audivi) modo domum suam cum lardo fuit remissus. Cujus, ut comperi, quidam pernam, alii verò quidam habuere succidiam. In cujus rei fidem, inter domus regesta, trium personarum nomina comperi lardo isto donatarum.

"Anno 23, Hen. 6. Memorandum, quod quidam Richardus Wright de Badbury juxta urbem Norwicen in agro Norfolciensi plebeius, Dunmuam accessit, & lardum petiit, 27 viz. die Aprilis, anno regni regis Henrici 6. 23. et secundùm chartæ [donationis] formam juratus fuit coram Johanne Cannon loci priore et conventu, aliisque vicinis quamplurimis, et eidem Ricardo tradebatur succidia.

"Anno 7 Ed. 4. Memorand. quod quidam Stephanus Samuel de Ayston parva in comitatu Essexiæ agricola, in die beatæ Virginis in Quadragesima, anno regis Edwardi quarti septimo, prioratum Dunmuensem accessit, et pernam requisivit. Juratus autem fuit coram Rogero Bulcott, tunc loci priore, et conventu, necnon coram aliorum vicinorum multitudine, cui perna tradita fuit.

"Anno 2 Hen 8. Memorand. quod anno Domini, 1510. Thomas, fullo de Cogshal in comitatu Essexiensi, prioratum Dunmuensem accessit, et 8 die Septembris, die dominico existente, anno regis Hen. 8. secundo, juxta formam charta præscriptam, juratus fuit coram Johanne Tils, tum

domus priore, et conventu, necnon coram proximorum multitudine, cui quidem Thomæ perna tradita fuit.

Hinc liqueat, lardum hoc chartâ benefactoris alicujus, faceti ingenii viri, fuisse constitutum: nec dubitandum quin tunc temporis oppidani et villani contermini eò se contulerint, tam speciosi ludicri participes futuri, et miseri peregrinatoris ærumnas merito ludibrio excepturi.

NUM V.

Valor Ecclesiasticus, 26 Hen. VIII.
PRIORATUS De Dunmowe.

In temporalibus et spiritualibus per annum clare
150. 3s. 4d.

ON the place, says Tanner, where one Syred had formerly begun to build a Church in honor of the Holy Cross and St. Mary Magdalene, at the South East corner of Leadenhall Street, Queen Maud, by the persuasions of Archbishop Anselm and Richard Beaumeis bishop of London, founded, A.D. 1108, a Monastery for Canons regular of the Order of St. Austin, then newly brought to England. Thus the MS. Register of the House, Stow's Manuscripts, &c.; but Matthew Paris, the Chronicle of St. Benet Hulm, a Chronicle cited in Leland's Collectanea, and the MS. Chronicle of Barth. Cotton, make Norman the first prior to have been the Founder, A. D. 1107. In one passage of Dugdale's Appendix Bishop Beaumeis himself is considered the founder upon the testimony of a Manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Queen Maud, who is most properly considered as the foundress, confirmed the Church to be free and acquitted from all subjection, except from the Church of St. Paul and the bishop of London; giving the canons the Gate called Aldgate, with the Soken thereunto belonging, which was of her own demesne, and two parts of the revenues or rents of the city of Exeter.b

Stow says the multitude of bretheren praising God in this Church, in a short time so increased, that all the City was delighted in beholding them; insomuch that in 1125, certain burgesses of London gave to the Church and Canons the land and soken called Knighten Gild, now Portsokenward, which had been created by King Edgar. In consequence of this grant the priors of Christ Church or the Holy Trinity became aldermen of the City of London, of Portsoken-ward, and so continued till the Suppression in the time of Henry the Eighth, and sat, and rode among the aldermen of the city in livery like them, saving that their habit was in shape of a spiritual person, as I myself, saith Stow, have seen in my childhood. At which time the prior kept a bountiful house of meat and drink both for rich and poor, as well within the house as at the gate, to all comers according to their estates.c

fire.

In 1132 this priory with its church was consumed by

The possessions of this priory in the middle of the thirteenth century will be seen in the charter of King Henry the Third, dated in the 11th year of his reign. Stow says, in process of time this house became a very fair

a Lel. Collectan. tom. iii. p. 73.

b Stowe in his Annals, edit. 1592. pp. 191, 192, under the year 1115, says, "Edgar sometime king of England graunted unto thirteen knights, a portion of ground without the walls of the cittie of London, left void in the east part of the said cittie, together with a gild which he named Knighten Gild, that now is called Portsoken warde, and now the church of the Holy Trinity, being founded within Aldgate as is afore shewed, the successors of these knights, to wit Radulphus fitz Alzede, Winiard le Dovershe, &c. gave the foresayde lands called Knighten Gild, to the same church but Othowerus, Accolinillus, Otto, and Geoffrey earl of Essex, constables of the Tower of London by succession, withhelde by force a portion of the same land, that is to say East Smithfield neere to the Tower, to make a Vineyard, and would not depart from it by any means till the second year of King Stephen, when the same was adjudged and restored to the church of the Holy Trinitie."

Compare Newcourt, Repert. Ecclesiast. vol. i. p. 557, 558. Stevens in his Continuation has translated the details of the foundation with numerous charters from the register. These latter will be hereafter given in the Appendix.

and large church, rich in lands and ornaments, and passed all the priories in London and Middlesex.d

This house was surrendered by Nicholas Hancock the last prior, George Grevil, and seventeen more of the convent, to the king, February the 4th, 1531; who said they did it, because their house was much involved in debt, and the revenues and profits sunk, and in effect come to nothing. The canons of this place were sent to other houses of the same order, and the priory, with the church, lands, and plate thereto belonging, given by King Henry the Eighth to Sir Thomas Audley, who at last offered the church and steeple to whomsoever would pull it down at his own cost.f Fuller says, that in his time this was spoken of as the first church and monastery which was granted to a layman and his heirs.

PRIORS of the HOLY TRINITY PRIORY, from Newcourt, Stevens, and original Records.

Stevens

NORMAN was the first prior of this house, A. D. 1108. He occurs in 1125. Stevens says he died in 1147. RALPH is believed to have been his successor. says he was created prior 16 kal. Feb. 1148. STEPHEN became prior 16 kal. June 1170: and was deposed in 1197. He died in 1198.

PETER DE CORNWALL became prior 7 id. May 1197, and died in July 1221.

RICHARD was made prior 17 kal. Aug. 1223, and died, according to Stevens, in 1248. Other, and apparently more authentic accounts, say he died in 1252, in which year, on Oct. 5th, the royal assent was given to the election of

JOHN DE TOTING, who had held the office of sacrist. He died, according to Stevens, in 1258.

GILBERT was created prior in 1260. Stevens says he died in 1264.

EUSTACHIUS received the temporalities, according to Stevens, 7 id. Jan. 1264: according to other accounts Jan. 12th, 1268. Stevens says he died in 1280.

WILLIAM AYGNELL, or AYNELL, received the temporalities Jan. 19th, 1285. Stevens says as early as 1280 :

and that he died in 1289.

STEPHEN DE WATTON received the royal assent to his election May 29th, and the temporalities June 4th, 1294.

Stevens ante-dates him in 1289.

RALPH DE CANTUARIA received the temporalities

The prior of the Holy Trinity was an alderman of London, sitting for Portsoken ward. Stowe says, I read that Eustace, the eighth prior, about the year 1264, because he would not deal with temporal matters, instituted Theobald Fitz Ivo alderman of Portsoken ward under him, and that William Rising prior of Christ's Church was sworn alderman of the said ward in the first of Ric. II. These priors have sitten and ridden among the aldermen of London, in livery like unto them, saving that their habit was in shape of a spiritual person, as I myself have seen in my childhood. At that time the prior kept a most bountiful house of meat and drink, both for rich and poor, as well within the house, as at the gates, to all comers, according to their estates. Stevens, Contin. vol. ii. pp. 94, 95.

March 19th, 1302, upon Stephen's cession. Upon Ralph's death

RICHARD DE WYMBISH received the royal assent June 27th, and the temporalities July 12th, 1316. Stevens, by mistake, says 1314.

ROGER DE POLAY received the temporalities June 21st, 1325, upon Wymbish's cession. Stevens says upon his deposition

THOMAS HERON succeeded on Polay's cession. The temporalities were restored to him June 11th, 1331. Upon

his death

NICHOLAS DE LONDON was elected. He had the temporalities given to him March 20th, 1339-40. He is elsewhere called NICHOLAS ALYNTON. Upon his death, WILLIAM DE RISING received the royal assent to his election 29th July, 1377."

ROBERT EXCETRE was elected Aug. 14th, 1391. died in 1408.

He WILLIAM HARRINGTON had the royal assent to his election 22d Sept. 8th Hen. IVth. Stevens calls him HARADON, and says he died Sept. 1, 1420.

WILLIAM CLARK had the king's assent, 18th Oct. 8th Hen. Vth.

JOHN SEVENOK, or SEVENOT, S. T. B. on June 10th,

17th Hen. VIth. He was then the senior canon. THOMAS POMERY 19th Feb. 24 Hen. VI.

THOMAS PERCY received the royal assent 2d Oct. 21 Edw. IV.

RICHARD CHARNOCK died prior in 1507.
THOMAS NEWTON on the 4th Aug. 20th Hen. VII.

on Charnock's death.

1513.

JOHN BRADWELL 29th Oct. 4th Hen. VIIIth. A.D. NICHOLAS HANCOCK had the royal assent 1st. Aug. 16th Hen. VIIIth.b

The aforesaid Sir Thomas Audley, made chancellor by King Henry the Eighth in the 24th year of his reign, and created Lord Audley of Walden by letters patent dated 29th Nov. 30th Henry VIII., dwelt in this priory, and died there April 30th, 1554. After whose death, says Newcourt, this

Thus far Newc. Rep. vol. i. pp. 560, 561.

These are chiefly from the Lansdowne MS. 963, copied from the Originalia Records.

Newc. Rep. vol. i. p. 558.

d The Charters which Stevens translated from this Book will be found in the Notes to the Appendix.

e Tanner's References to Records and Manuscripts beside these are, Vide "Cartas quamplurimas ad hunc Prioratum spectantes in bagis penes vicecamerarios Scaccarii, A.D. 1697. Ordinationem de missis celebrandis in hoc Prioratu pro magistro Joanne Young officiali curiæ Cantuar. A.D. 1368. MS. in bibl. Cotton. Nero С. . 5. Ibid. n. 9. Donationem eccl. de Toteham per Simonem com. Northampton. Ibid. n. 25, 26. Acquietantias factas Priori S. Trinitatis per quosdam Judæos Latine et Hebraice. Ibid. Claudius D. 11. 52. Cartam R. Hen. III. In bibl. Coll. Corp. Christ. Cant. MS. 170. p. 197. Supplicationem R. Edw. IV. ad Papam pro Tho. Pomeray priore Eccl. Christi Lond. et ex officio primo post majorem Civitatis Lond. aldermanno, ut concederetur ei usus mitræ, baculi, et pontificalium. In bibl. Harleiana MS. 60. fol. 7. Spiritualia et temporalia Prioris S. Trinitatis. MS. 544. fol. 76. Persons of note buried in this Priory. MS. 433. p. licence to grant an annuity of 201. to the Abbess of Berking.

"Cart. antiq. N. n. 1-23.

"Fin. Ebor. 10 Joan. n.. de terris in Brakking et Bordesden Hertf. "Assis. in com. Essex temp. Hen. III. rot. 2. pro annuo redditu ex molendino in Stratford. Plac. coram Rege 14 Hen. III. Trin. rot. 10. pro eccl. de Bramfield Essex. Cart. 37 Hen. III. m. 12. Fin. com. ignot. 42 Hen. III. n. 40. de ten. in West Melne. Ibid. 46 Hen. III. n. 6. de terris in Edelmeton Midd. Ibid. 49 Hen. III. n. 61. de ten. in Edelmeton. Plac. in London et Middlesex 2 Edw. I. rot. 5. dorso, pro boscis et redditibus in Edelmeton. Plac. apud Hertf. 6 Edw. I. assis. rot. 1 et 8. pro terris in Braching. Ibid. rot. 17, 23, 26, et 38 quod Prior tenetur reparare duos pontes in loco vocato St. Mary Hope juxta Leyton. Plac. in com. Essex, 13 Edw. I. assis. rot. 44. pro cx. sol.fredditus pro decimis maner. de Bendish. Pat. 20 Edw. I. m. 19. de pardonatione Priori c'. Plac. in com. Middlesex 22 Edw. I. assis. rot. 20. d. pro boscis in Edelmeton. Rec. in Scacc. 23 Edw. I. Mich. rot. 1. Pat. 31 Edw. I. m. Pat. 7 Edw. II. m. 3. Pat. 11 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 14. pro terris in Edelmeton. Fin. 12 Edw. II. m. 13. de ten. in Braghinge, Corney, Barkeden, et Milkeley. Plac. apud turrim London. 14 Edw. II. assis. rot. 46. dorso, quo war. rot. 100. Pat. 15 Edw. II. p. 3, m. 4 vel 5. Pat. 2 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 13. Pat. 9 Edw. III. p. 1, m. . Pat. 15 Edw. III. p. 3, m. 4 vel 5. de taxatione temporalium. Brev. Reg. 15 Edw. III. de terris et ten. in dioc. London. Lincoln. et Roffens. viz. in Wansted, Welcomstow Parv. Waltham, Kentish towne, Britholt, Aspeden, Wakeley, et Lesnes. Claus. 19 Edw. III. m. 21. Pat. 1 Ric. II. p. 2, m. 36. et p. 6, m. 5. Cart. 3 Ric. II, n. 2. pro mercat. et feria apud Corneye, et aliis liberta

priory came to Thomas duke of Norfolk, by virtue of his marriage with Margaret the daughter and heir of the said Lord Audley, and from thence was called The Duke's Place; from which duke (who was beheaded June 2d, 15th Eliz.) it descended to Thomas Howard earl of Suffolk, eldest son to the said duke, by Margaret, his second wife: and he by indenture of bargain and sale, bearing date July 21st, 34th Eliz., with Katherine his wife sold the same to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London, to have and to hold to them and their successors in as large and ample a manner as the said earl and his wife, or the said Lord Audley, or the said King Henry the Eighth, or the said prior and convent or their predecessors, at any time before the said Dissolution, or any other time, had, used, or enjoyed the same, by virtue of any grant, privilege, prescription, law, custom, or any other ways or means whatsoever.c

The mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London, by whom the church of St. James's, Duke's Place, was subsequently built there, according to Newcourt, at one time, pretended an exemption from the jurisdiction of the bishop of London: but their claim was not allowed.

Tanner refers to two CHARTULARIES of the Holy way of Trinity Priory, neither of which have fallen in the the present Editors.

1. "Chartularium hujus Prioratus, MS. penes. v. cl. rei heraldicæ et patriarum antiquitatum peritissimum Joannem Anstis arm. regem armorum principalem titulo Garter.d 2. "Chartularium olim penes Doct. Bateman, postea penes Thomam Astle arm. et nunc in Museo cl. Gulielmi Hunter, M.D."

Lansdowne's, is preserved in the British Museum, MS. A Fragment of another Chartulary, formerly Lord Lansd. 448. containing the Foundation Charter, with other Deeds concerning the churches of Braughing, in Hertfordshire; St. Edm. the King, All Saints super murum, St. Botolph, Aldgate, and All Saints, Fenchurch, in London; and Byxle, in Kent.

In the King's Remembrancer's Office in the Exchequer there is a Book of Rentals of lands in several Counties of England belonging to this Priory taken in the 35th Edw. III.* tibus. Rec. in Scacc. 5 Ric. II. de exitibus terræ nuper Willielmi de Bohun com. Northampton. Pat. 6 Ric. II. p. 2, m.. Pat. 16 Ric. II. p. 3, m.. Pat. 22 Ric. II. p. 2, m. 13. Pat. 1 Hen. IV. p. 8, m. 32. pro ten. in Bokeland, Leyston, Wydyhall, Alswick, et Buntingford. Pat. 2 Hen. IV. p. 1, m. 40. Pat. 8 Hen. VI. p. 3, m. 6. Pat. 14 Hen. VI. p. 2, m. 19. de ten. in Oxon. Rec. in Scacc. 14 Hen. VI. Mich. rot. 21. pro mess. et terris in Braghing et Standon Hertf. Pat. 17 Hen. VI. p. 2, m.. de custodia domus ad inopiam redactæ commissa præsidenti Ordinis, &c. Pat. 18 Hen. VI. p. 2, m. 19. pro eccl. S. Edmundi Lombardstrete London. approprianda. Rot. act. parl. 25 Hen. VIII. n. 11. for the assurance of the Priory of Christ Church in London to the King and his heirs."

There are various Charters relating to the Holy Trinity Priory among those which were given to the British Museum in 1814 by the late Lord Frederick Campbell; Cart. antiq. L.F.C. xiv. 6-24 inclusive and xxIII. 21-24. The following are the most important of these,

XIV. 6. Carta Stephani Regis Angliæ, de terra quæ fuit Godefridi Beivin servientis sui in Liesnes.

8. Carta Gauteri Roffensis eccl. ministri de ecclesia de Liesnes. 13. Testimonia diversa contra parochianos Eccl. de Lesyno, A.D. 1348.

15. Commissio pro eccl. de Lesenes, A.D. 1423.

MS. Lansd. 968. fol. 51. contains a transcipt of the Deed of surrender of this House to Henry VIIIth. "ex libro membranaceo de Feodis et Feofamentis Thomæ Audley militis;" dat. 24th Feb. 1531, and signed by Nicholas Hancock Prior, George Grevys, John Dawsen, Thomas Bradman, John Hayward, William Crettynge, John Byrd, John Richardson, William Amyri, Richard Hill, John Brocden, John Lychefeld, Henry Bradshawe, William Colysby, John Clovyll, John Barnard, John Clerke, William Castyllon, Richard Palaver. It is followed by copies of Three Grants to Sir Thomas Audeley, Knt. Chancellor of England, 1. Of the Site dated 9 Apr. 25th Hen. VIII. 2. Of a messuage in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, lately belonging to Christ Church, and 3. Of the manor of Braughyng in Hertfordshire.

See also the Taxat. P. Nich. IV. pp. 9, 12 b, 13 b, 14 b, 18, 21, 21 b, 22, 22 b, 26, 26 b, 29 b, 37, 51 b, 52. Rot. Hundr. vol. i. pp. 70, 190, 191, 407, 410, 412, 418, 420. Plac. de Quo War. pp. 460, 471. Abbrev. Plac. pp. 317, 344.

In the Lord Treasurer's Rememb. Office,

De Literis Patentibus de Situ nuper Monasterij S. Trinitatis London. Thomæ Audley Mil. Cancellario Angliæ factis. Hil. Rec. 28 Hen. viij.

rot. 10 et 11.

Regina Licentiam dedit Thomæ Domino Howard et Kath. Uxor. ejus alienare situm nuper Monasterij S. Trinitatis voc. Christchurch Majori et Communitati London. et successoribus suis. 4 et 5 partes Orig. 34 Eliz. rot. 82.

Neither the Valor Ecclesiasticus 26 Hen. VIII. nor any Ministers' Accompts of that reign are preserved of this monastery, but at the Chapter House Westm. a Valuation and several other papers of that period respecting it exist, together with an account of the bells, timber, and other materials belonging to the House.

An Impression of the COMMON SEAL, representing the Blessed Saviour seated on a Rainbow, and having in his left hand a Book, resting on his knee, his right hand elevated, is extant in the Chapter House, Westminster, attached to a Deed without date, the Legend, SIGILLV. ECL'IE. SCE.

TRINITATIS. LVNDONIE.

A few years ago considerable traces were to be seen of the Holy Trinity Priory. There is now scarcely any thing remaining. Stowe says,

"Sir Thomas Audley offered the great

church of this Priory, with a ring of nine bells well tuned, (whereof four, the greatest, were since sold to the parish of Stebunhith, and the five lesser to the parish of St. Stephen, in Coleman-street), to the parishioners of St. Catherine's Christ Church, in exchange for their small parish church, minding to have pulled it down, and to have built there towards the street; but the parishioners having doubts in their heads of after claps refused the offer. Then was the Priory, Church, and Steple, proffered to whomsoever would take it down, and carry it from the ground; but no man would undertake the offer; whereupon Sir Thomas Audley was fain to be at more charges than could be made of the stones, timber, lead, iron, &c. for the workmen with great labour, beginning at the top, loosed stone from stone and threw them down, whereby the most part of them were broken, and few remained whole, and those were sold very cheap. The said Thomas Lord Audley built and dwelt on this Priory during his life, and died there in 1544."

NUM. I.

London.

De Fundatione ejusdem.

Carta Hugonis Tricket, de Ecclesia de Lefstancherche. [Ibid.]

EPISCOPO Lond. et omnibus sanctæ ecclesiæ fidelibus, Hugo Triket salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse in perpetuam elemosinam, Deo et ecclesiæ S. Trinitatis Lond. et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus, quicquid ego et pater meus, vel prædecessores mei habuimus in ecclesia de Lefstanchirche, cum tota terra mea de Cornhee, ita quod quicunque eandem ecclesiam tenuerit, de prædictis canonicis eam teneat et recognoscat, sicut eam tenuerunt, de me et antecessoribus meis. Testibus Simone de Gerardvil, Hugone Pluket, Rogero de Caao, &c.

NUM. IV.

Carta Ricardi filii Willielmi. de Capella de Alswik.

[Ibid.]

RICARDUS filius Willielmi, universis sanctæ filiis, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse canonicis, S. Trinitatis Lond. in elemosinam perpetuam, capellam de Alswike, cum pertinentiis suis; et super altare S. Trinitatis eam obtulisse. in præsentia domini Thomæ Cantuar. archiepiscopi eam illis reddidisse per manum ejus; et recognovisse coram eo, quod pertineat ad ecclesiam suam de Lefstancherche, sicut quæ fundata est in parochia ejusdem ecclesiæ, cujus omnes rectitudines volo conservare sicut matris ecclesiæ: Et hoc feci pro amore Dei, et pro salute mea, et uxoris meæ et hæredum et propinquorum meorum, et pro animabus antecessorum meorum: Et prædicti anonici receperunt nos in fraternita

spectantes.

Carta Davidis Regis Scotorum, de Ecclesia de Toteham. [Ibid.]

DAVID rex Scotorum, Gilberto Lond. episcopo, et omnibus fidelibus salutem. Sciatis me dedisse ecclesiam de Toteham canonicis ecclesisiæ S. Trinitatis Lond. perpetuo jure in elemosinam, pro salute animæ meæ, et pro anima Matildæ Reginæ sororis meæ, et Matildis reginæ uxoris meæ, et Simonis comitis, et omnium antecessorum nostrorum; et ut canonici benefaciant servire ecclesiæ. Testibus Hereberto cancellario; Walkelino capellano, &c. Hugone de Morvilla; Roberto de Brus; Waltero a' Espec, &c.

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Carta Alicia de Teonio de Ecclesia de Welcomstowe. [Ibid.]

R. DEI gratia Lond. episcopo, universisque sanctæ ecclesiæ filiis, Aliz de Toeni salutem et obsequia. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse ecclesiæ S. Trinitatis Lond. et canonicis in ea Deo servientibus, in elemosinam, pro salute animæ Hugonis de Toeni filii mei, qui ibidem jacet sepultus; et pro salute animæ Radulphi de Toeni mariti mei, et meæ, et omnium antecessorum meorum; et pro incolumitate filiorum meorum, Rogeri de Toeni at Simonis, et filiæ meæ Isabellæ, et aliorum parentum et amicorum meorum, ecclesiam de Welcomstowe, cum decimis et pratis et terris, et cæteris omnibus, tam in bosco quàm in plano ad eam pertinentibus, sicut Ordricus presbyter tenuit, cujus petitione id feci, quando prædictæ ecclesiæ S. Trinitatis se in canonicum dedit. Insuper dedi eidem ecclesiæ, de cremento, dimidiam virgatam terræ, et acram de prato, solutam et quietam sicut elemosinam. Hujus donationis testes sunt Simon filius meus, Isabella filia mea, et Moyses presbyter, et Elias clericus, et Ricardus de Portis et Willielmus de Orivals.

NUM. VII.

Donatio Walteri de Mandevill, de Ecclesia de Bromfeild. [Ibid.]

EPISCOPO Londoniensi et archidiacono de Essex, et toti clero London. ecclesiæ, Walterus de Mandevilla salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse in elemosinam perpetuam, Deo et ecclesiæ S. Trinitatis London. et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus imperpetuum ecclesiam de Bromfeild, cum terris et decimis; et omnibus ad eam pertinentibus: Et volo quod præfatæ ecclesiæ canonici præsentes et futuri, eandem ecclesiam benè et in pace et honorificè teneant, cum omnibus

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Carta Regis Henrici Primi, de Soca de Cnihttengilda et Ecclesia S. Botulphi.

[Ibid.]

HENRICUS rex Angliæ, Richardo episcopo London. et vicecomiti et præposito et omnibus baronibus et fidelibus suis Francis et Anglis de London. et de Midd. salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et confirmâsse ecclesiæ et canonicis S. Trinitatis Lond. socam de Anglica Cnihttengilda, et terram quæ ei pertinet; et ecclesiam S. Botulphi, sicut homines ejusdem gildæ eis dederunt et concesserunt. Et volo et firmiter præcipio quod benè et honorificè et liberè teneant, cum soca et saca et tol et theam et infangenethef, et omnibus consuetudinibus suis, sicut homines prædictæ gildæ meliùs habuerunt tempore regis Edwardi; et sicut rex Willielmus pater meus, et frater meus eis concesserunt per brevia sua. Teste A. regina et Gaufrido cancellario; et Gaufrido de Clintona, et Willielmo de Clintona, apud Wodestocam. NUM. IX.

Carta Huberti Camerarii de Decima de Benedishe.

[Ibid.]

NOTUM sit omnibus tam præsentibus quàm futuris, me dedisse et concessisse in elemosinam perpetuam ecclesiæ Christi London. et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus decimam de meo dominio de Benedishe, de blado, de feno, de lino, de animalibus cujuscunque generis; et de omnibus rebus de quibuscunque decima dari debet; exceptis hiis quæ solent dari ecclesiæ de Radewynter; scilicet una acra de frumento, et alia de avena; et uno agno et uno porcello, per annum; concedentibus et confirmantibus hoc, Agnete uxore mea, et filiis meis.

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Quare volo, &c. Testibus Theobaldo archiepiscopo Cantuariensi; et Roberto episcopo Londoniensi; et Roberto episcopo Herefordiæ; et Roberto episcopo Exoniensi; Hilario episcopo Cicestrensi; et Willielmo episcopo Norwicensi, et comite Eustachio filio regis, Willielmo de Ipra; Roberto de Veer; Willielmo mareschallo; et Henrico de Essexia; Richardo de Lucy; Warino de Luisoriis apud Londonias. NUM. XII.

Carta Regis Henrici Tertii, Donatorum Concessiones recitans et confirmans.

[Cart. 11 Hen. III. p. 1, m. 34. Vide Pat. 8 Hen. VI. p. 3, m. 6. Et Cart. 3 Ric. II. n. 2.]

H. DEI gratia, &c. archiepiscopis, episcopis, &c. Sciatis nos intuitu Dei, concessisse, et hac cartâ nostrâ confirmâsse Deo et ecclesiæ Sanctæ Trinitatis in civitate London. sitæ, et priori et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus; quod prædicta ecclesia Sanctæ Trinitatis libera sit et quieta ab omni subjectione, tam ecclesiæ de Waltham, quàm omnium aliarum ecclesiarum, præterquam ecclesiæ Sancti Pauli London. et episcopi, cum omnibus ad eam pertinentibus, secundùm tenorem cartarum M. reginæ fundatricis ejusdem ecclesiæ Sanctæ Trinitatis, et H. regis primi, viri sui, et H. regis secundi, avi nostri.

Concedimus etiam eis et confirmamus, de donatione prædictæ M. reginæ, portam de Alegate, cum soca pertinente, sicut in præsenti eas tenent, et duas partes redditus civitatis Exoniæ; scilicet xxv. libr. blanc. per annum percipiendas ad scaccarium nostrum, per manus vicecomitum Devon. Et concessionem eis factam à prædicto H. rege primo, de via muro claudenda, quæ erat inter ecclesiam et officinas eorum et murum civitatis London. ex altera parte usque ad murum prædictæ civitatis, et de via similiter quæ solebat ibi esse, quæ nunc est ante ecclesiam prædictam, ex alia parte et similiter homines suos et terram suam de An

copo

tota Terra de Cornea.

[Cart. Antiq. N. n. 8. Vide Cart. 11 Hen. III. p. 1, m. 34.] EUSTACHIUS Comes Boloniæ, filius regis Stephani, episLond. et omnibus baronibus et hominibus suis, Francis et Anglis, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse Deo, et ecclesiæ S. Trinitatis Londoniæ, et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus, totam terram de Cornea, quam Hugo Tryket eis vendidit, cum omnibus rebus ad eam pertinentibus, ita plenariè, et integrè, sicut prædictus Hugo eam canonicis concessit, et carta suâ confirmavit; et insuper servitium meum de prædicta terra; scilicet, quartam partem militis remisi ipsis canonicis ad duos bisantos, singulis annis pro omni servitio; et hoc feci pro salute regis Stephani patris mei, et pro anima Matildis reginæ matris meæ, necnon pro animabus Baldwini fratris mei, et Matildis sororis meæ, qui apud præfatam ecclesiam sepulti sunt. Quare volo, &c. Sciatis etiam, quod ego petitione ejusdem Hugonis, fidei jussor ipsius sum erga canonicos, quod pactionem, quæ inter ipsos est, tenebit; et eis terram præfatam adversùs omnes guarantizabit. Testibus Symone de Girardvilla, Hugone Pluket, Rogero de Caio, Henrico de Novoforo, &c.

NUM. XI.

Carta Matildis Reginæ, Donationem Regis Stephani mariti sui confirmans. [Ibid. n. 2.]

MATILDIS Dei gratia Anglorum regina, episcopo Londoniensi, justiciariis, vicecomitibus, baronibus, ministris, et omnibus fidelibus suis, Francis et Anglis, de Herefordshire, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse donum regis Stephani, et confirmâsse, quod fecit ecclesiæ Christi Londoniarum, et Radulfo priori, et canonicis in ea Deo servientibus, de centum solidatis terræ in manerio de Bracchinge, in perpetuam elemosinam, pro requie animarum, scilicet, Baldewini filii mei, et Matildis filiæ meæ, qui in eadem ecclesia sepulti requiescunt. Præterea concedo et confirmo eidem ecclesiæ, et prædictis canonicis, vi. libratas terræ in eodem manerio de Bracchinge pro escambio molendini sui, et illius partis terræ suæ, quam concesserant mihi juxta turrim London. ubi feci hospitale pauperum, illas videlicet, vi. libratas terræ illis concessi, quas rex retinuerat in dominio suo, postquam partitus fuit cæteras partes illius manerii; hoc est partem illam

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quas inde habent ex concessione prædicti H. regis primi, et Ĥ. regis secundi: et similiter terram suam de Leiton, cum libertatibus quas inde habent per cartam prædicti H. regis primi.

Concedimus etiam eis et confirmamus custodiam hospitalis juxta turrim London, cum terris et molendinis ad prædictum hospitale pertinentibus, sicut ea habent ex concessione regis Stephani et regina Matildis uxoris ejus: et similiter terras suas cum pertinenciis, in Bracking, cum ecclesia de Bracking, simul cum libertatibus, quas habent ex concessione eorundem; et similiter alias terras suas de honore Boloniæ; scilicet terram de Berkedene, de dono Ricardi de Anestia: et terram de Corneia: et ecclesiam de Lefstanechirche, de dono Hugonis Triket: et capellam de Alsiswik, de dono Ricardi filii Willielmi. Concedimus etiam eis et confirmamus terras et redditus suos de Bekeham, et de Claihurst, quas habent de dono Picoti Empastorat, simul cum libertatibus quas ibidem habent ex concessione Matildis imperatricis, filiæ H. regis primi.

Concedimus etiam eis et confirmamus terras et tenementa, quæ habent de dono subscriptorum; scilicet, de dono Rogeri filii Briani et Matildis uxoris ejus, duas carucatas terræ in Hodenho, et Trockinge. De dono Roberti de Gattone terram suam de Hamstede, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, quam Gilebertus de Bradele tenuit de eo ad feodi firmam. De dono Huberti camerarii reginæ, iv. libratas terræ in manerio de Brackinge. De dono Ricardi Walensis quater xx. et unam acram et dimidiam terræ et iv. acras prati in Brackinge, cum serviciis Augustinii filii Wulwardi, et Edithæ viduæ, et Ricardi Cruyland. De dono Radulphi Harenge xxv. acras terræ et dimidiam in campis de Hestone, et pratum quantum pertinet ad tantum tenementum de eodem feodo; et servicium, quod Robertus Faber de Hestone ei annuatim facere consuevit. De dono Willielmi Blemund totum boscum suum cum bruera, et cum omnibus pertinenciis sicut undique fossatis includitur, in parochia Sancti Pancracii de Kentissetone, juxta parcum domini London. episcopi, versùs austrum, et Willielmum Uggel et hæredes suos et eorum servicia.

De dono Radulphi Triket croftam quæ vocatur Hograve, et morsellum terræ juxta horreum suum in Brambeleghe, et Northmede; et Spareweham, et Wildam, et Wigevvikam; et terram quæ fuit Edmundi; et terram quæ

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