et de Were, et de Powelet. Ex dono Nicholai fil. Roberti ecclesiam de Tikeham. Ex dono comitis Willielmi ecclesiam de Grantendene, et ecclesiam de Halbertone, et ecclesiam de Ronne, et de Plata-holma, cum omnibus pertinentiis earum. Et ex dono Willielmi fil. Gregorii ecclesiam de Finenere. Hæc autem omnia eis concedo et confirmo cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus et quietanciis suis, adeo libera, et quieta, et soluta, sicut cartæ donatorum suorum testantur. Concedo etiam eis quod ipsi canonici, et fratres, et homines eorum, et naves et batelli ipsorum sint quieti de tolneo, et passagio, et de geldis, et de tailliagiis, et de omnibus consuetudinibus et exactionibus, quæ ad me et meos pertinent per totam terram meam in portubus maris et alibi, de omnibus rebus suis propriis quas vendiderint, et de hiis qui emerint, vel quæ eis data fuerint, vel alio modo adquisita apportaverint, vel per terram vel per aquam ad proprios usus suos vel suorum. Testibus, Stephano Rider cancellario meo, Wil. de Vennen, Rogero de Plane, Hamone de Valoniis, Rogero de Novo Burgo, Theob. Walteri, Alardo fil. Willielmi, Simone de Marisco, Wil. de Milieris, Ric. Flandrensi, Wil. de la Faleyse, Engelram de Pratellis, Roberto de Mortem, Wil. de Buktot, Reg. de Wasonvil, Rob. fil. Roberti fil. Hardyngi, Ric. Aaron qui scripsit hæc, et multis aliis apud Bristold.' Nos autem donationes, concessiones, &c. confirmamus, apud Westm. vi. die Marcii. NUM. IV. Carta Regis Edw. III. pro Abbate S. Aug. Bristolliæ, de non veniendo ad Parliamentum. [Stev. Supplem. vol. ii. p. 350, 351. Rym. Fod. tom. v. p. 246.] REX omnibus ad quos, &c. salutem. Monstravit nobis, dilectus nobis in Christo, Abbas Sancti Augustini Bristole, quod licet ipse non teneat Baroniam, seu aliquo alio modo de nobis in capite, nec Domus sua prædicta de fundatione Progenitorum nostrorum quondam Regum Angliæ seu nostra existat, per quod de veniendo ad Parliamenta seu Concilia nostra de jure summonire debeat; idemque Abbas, seu prædecessores sui ad veniendum ad Parliamenta et Concilia hujusmodi, ante annum regni nostri Angliæ decimum summoniti non fuerint, sicuti nec debebant, dicto tamen anno decimo, per procurationem et abettum quorundam æmulorum suorum, et postmodum continue, idem Abbas ad Parliamenta et Concilia nostra voluntarie summonitus fuit, et hucusque, prætextu summonitionis ad hujusmodi Parliamenta et Concilia nostra, multipliciter et indebite gravatus extitit, et indies. existit, super quo supplicavit nobis dictus Abbas, ut sibi super hoc providere de remedio dignaremur; et quia prædictus Abbas, seu prædecessores sui prædicti, ante prædictum Annum decimum de veniendo ad hujusmodi Parliamenta et Concilia dictorum Progenitorum nostrorum, seu nostra summoniti non fuerint, sicut per inspectionem Rotulorum Cancellariæ nostræ nobis constat, Nos, consideratione prædictorum, volentes Securitati et Quieti prædicti Abbatis et Successorum suorum in hac parte providere, Volumus et concedimus pro nobis et hæredibus nostris, quod idem Abbas, aut successores sui de veniendo ad Parliamenta et Concilia nostra, vel hæredum nostrorum, futuris temporibus, nullatenus summoneantur, nec occasione non adventus sui ad Parliamenta et Concilia hujusmodi, per nos vel hæredes nostros, seu hæredum nostrorum quoscunque, occasionentur, impetiantur, molestentur in aliquo, seu graventur; ita tamen quod ipsi in procuratores, ad hujusmodi Parliamenta et Concilia mittendos per Clerum, consentiant, et, ut moris est, pro expensis contribuant eorundem. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium secundo die Maii. Per Breve de privato Sigillo. NUM. V. COMPUT' MINISTRORUM DOMINI REGIS temp. HEN. VIII. [Abstract of Roll, 32 Hen. VIII. Augmentation Office.] Almondsbury-Redd' assis' Almondsbury-Redd' cust' ten' Almondsbury-Redd' mobil' Almondsbury-Redd' vocat' Smokepens Almondsbury-Opera custum' ten' Pethawe-Redd' custum' ten' Compton-Redd' voc' Smokepens Almondsbury-Diversæ portiones decim' Horefeld-Redd' assis' Horefeld-Redd' cust' ten' . Horefeld-Redd' et terr' rector' Combe juxta Westbury-Redd' molend', &c. Horefeld-Perquis' cur' Blakesworth-Redd' custum' ten' 8 911 08 1 0 08 38 7 103 008 0 1 101 068 2 13 6 17 083 3 11 10 010 7 7 8 13 10 4 Roughburgh-Redd' assis' Fiff hide-Redd' cust' ten' 2 14 0 6 11 31 8 1 6 WILLIAM CHEYNEY, de Querceto, or Caineto, founded a Priory of Canons of the Order of St. Austin, as early as the reign of King Stephen, in the Church of St. Mary at East Rudham; which, about the beginning of the reign of Henry the Third, was removed to the extremity of the parish, eastward, to a place called Cokesford, which was also dedicated to the blessed Virgin. John de Caineto's confirmation of various donations to this House, with Hervey Belet's grant of the manor of Rudham, will be found in the Appendix. A fair here was granted to the Prior in the 11th of Henry the IIId, to be held upon the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, and two following days; which was confirmed in the 35th Hen. III.a In the 3d and 15th Edw. I., the Prior had the lete and free warren, with a free market on Mondays, and a fair yearly on the vigil and day of St. Matthew the apostle: and in the 27th of the same reign, a three week court, which extended to the manor of West as well as East Rudham.b John Matthew, prior, granted April 30th, 20th Henry VIII. to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, the manor of Rilverston belonging to this priory, the Convent being in debt to the King, and the Duke covenanting to discharge the same. C Mr. Taylor, in his Index Monasticus, enumerates the following names of the many benefactors to this House :Sir William de Cheney; Anne Cheney; Hervey Beleth or Belet, 1181; Sir Peter de Alto Bosco, or Hautboys, 1199; Margaret de Cheney or Cressey, 1217; Nicholas de Burmere, temp. Hen. III.; Anne Verdun; Roger de Broom, 1249; William de Rothing, 1288; Geoffrey Lord Say, 1294; Sir Robert de Ufford, 1316; Cecilia his widow, daughter of Robert de Valoines, 1316; the Lady Maud de Toney, 1325; Robert de Broom, about 1350."d The continuator of Blomfield has preserved several notices of the minor possessions of this House, to which the Reader is referred. He says the Canons, beside the Prior, were eight in number. The following List of the PRIORS of COKESFORD is chiefly taken from Blomfield. MATTHEW DE CAINETO was the first Prior. HEREBERT or HUBERT occurs t. Ric. I. and 4 Hen. JOHN, 34th and 41st Hen. III. WILLIAM DE HEMPTON elected A.D. 1315. JOHN DE THORNHAM was his successor. PETER DE TEKENHOW, Willis calls him HEKENHOW, was elected in 1346. JOHN DE WALSINGHAM elected in 1404. Edmund de SNETESHAM Occurs in 1430. JOHN DE DEREHAM was chosen in 1438. Edmund DE SNETESHAM was again elected upon Dereham's death in 1449. JOHN WICKINGHAM succeeded. He resigned in 1463; when JOHN KNOLLYS, alias CLEMENT, was elected; and, on his death in 1478, HENRY MILEHAM was elected, and occurs Prior in 1498. Willis calls him JOHN MILEHAM. him THOMAS Was Prior in the 21st of Hen. VIII. and after JOHN ADAMSON. JOHN MATTHEWS occurs Prior in 1534. He subscribed with nine others to the king's supremacy: and had a pension granted to him, at the Dissolution, of 15l. per annum. Willis speaks of Adamson as the last Prior, and says that he had the pension.f King Henry the Eighth, on the 9th of May, in his 29th year, gave the manor of East Rudham, with the Site of the Priory of Cokesford, and the impropriate rectory and patronage of the vicarage, to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. In the 21st Elizabeth, Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, son to the said duke, had license to alienate it to Sir Roger Townshend, whose immediate heir, the Right Hon. George Lord Viscount Townshend, succeeded to it. The property is at present vested in the trustees of the Marquis of Townshend. The Abbey or Priory Church of Cokesford was standing in the reign of James the First. The Minister's Accompts of this religious House being deficient in the Augmentation Office, by reason of its possessions having been granted immediately after the Suppression, temp. Hen. VIII. to the Duke of Norfolk, an abstract of the Return 26 Hen. VIII. is given in its room. The Editors of the present Volumes have had no opnastery in the possession of Lord Townshend's trustees. HUGH DE ELMHAM, 14 Edw. I. Willis speaks of portunity of examining the REGISTERS of this MoHenry de Elmham, t. Hen. IV. Collect. autoris notat. T. T. in bibl. Bodl. Oxon. fol. 394 ad fol. 418. et fol. 689, &c. MS. Dodsworth, vol. xxxiv. fol. 4. cart. 13 Edw. I. In bibl. Harleiana, MS. 2296. fol. 126. 133. particulars relating to lands formerly belonging to this Priory. Plac. apud Westm. 7 Ric. I. rot. 7. de stagno molendini de Thorp. Fin. Norf. 10 Ric. I. n. 14. de marisco in Brunsthorp. Ibid. n. 198. de terris in Rudham. Plac. apud Westm. 2 Joan. Mich. rot. 13. pro eccl. de Hautbois. Fin. Norf. 7 Hen. III. n. 147. de ten. in Kilvardeston. Cart. 11 Hen. III. p. 1, m. 7. n. 61. Claus. 11 Hen. III. m. 12. pro feria apud Rudham in festo Translat. S. Thomæ Martyris. Fin. Norf. 17 Hen. III. n. 40. pro maner. de Cartae ad Prioratum de Cokesford jurta Rudham, in agro Norfolciensi, NUM. I. Carta Johannis de Querceto (sive Cheney) de Donatione ejusdem. [Ex autographo in bibl. Deuvesiana. Videsis Cart. 12 Edw. I. n. 70.] WILLIELMO Dei gratia Norewicensi episcopo, et domino suo Willielmo comiti de Warenna, et omnibus sanctæ ecclesiæ filiis, tam præsentibus, quàm futuris, Johannes de Querceto, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse Deo et sanctæ Mariæ et canonicis de Rudham duas ecclesias ipsius villæ, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, et totam præterea terram laicam, quam Bruno et Willielmus presbiteri tenuerunt. Scilicet quam avus meus Radulfus de Querceto et Willielmus filius ejus patruus meus, et ego, liberam ab omnibus consuetudinibus et exactionibus, et ecclesiastica possessione fecimus. Sciatis me dedisse eis hortos, Frehe, Godwini, Lamberti, Wilnoti, et Warini, et Almari, et molendinum de Cokesford, et vivarium, et Cadewelle-wang, et totam terram, quæ est inter Cadewelle-wang, et aquam de Tatersate et Ketelesmere-wang, et totam Normere-wang, et Radulfum filium Ulmari, et totam terram suam, et Burstanum et terram suam, et hoc in escambio propter terram Almari de Gartuna, quam Moyses tenet, et servitium Sumerledi sacerdotis, et terram suam quam patruus meus Willielmus de Querceto dedit ei, et Godwinum scriptorem et totam terram suam, et Tocheswda, et totam terram de Marham quæ de feodo meo esse dinoscitur, et molendinum de Torp de vivario, et ipsum vivarium, et opera quæ homines ipsius villæ facere solebant ad stagnum prædicti vivarii reficiendum; et duos homines juxta prædictum molendinum manentes, scilicet, Godwinum et Ulvingum fratrem suum, et terram illorum, et dimidium nemus de Besefen, quod est extra parcum. Et ut ipsi canonici pro anima avi mei Radulfi de Querceto, et uxoris ejus, et anima patris mei et matris meæ, et Willielmi de Querceto patrui mei et Rogeri et sororum eorum, et Walerani de Rocesforde, et omnium parentum meorum, et pro mea et uxoris meæ et fratrum meorum, et sororum mearum, omnia supradicta inconcussè, et honorificè, et quietè jure perpetuo teneant, ea et præsentis scripti attestatione et sigilli mei appositione corroboro et confirmo, salvo servitio comitis; hujus autem donationis testes Reinaldus de Warenna, Radulfus de Wiburvilla, Radulfus filius Osmundi, et Sibilla uxor domini Johannis, Petrus de Caineto, et Mathæus frater ejus, Nicholaus clericus, et Godwinus frater ejus; Scul...... et Willielmus frater ejus; Radulfus sacerdos de Sartorpe, et magister Willielmus Maurinus, Willielmus sacerdos, Nicholaus de Stavehee, Wache diaconus; Gaufridus de West-Rudeham, Radulfus Avis, et Nicholaus clericus de Barsham, et Walterus clericus, et Albertus et Rigolf, et Warinus et Robertus de Croft. Ista conventio renovata fuit coram domino Willielmo Norwicensi episcopo, apud Tornodis in vigilia ascensionis Domini die sancti Dunstani, præsente ipso Johanne de Caineto. West Rudham. Cart. 33 Hen. III. m. 10. Fin. Norf. 34 Hen. III. n. 151. pro quarta parte i. feod. mil. in. Kilverdeston. Cart. 35 Hen. III. m. 10. pro feria in Rudham. Fin. Norf. 35 Hen. III. n. 33. de ten. in Folsham. Fin. Norf. 41 Hen. III. n. 33. de mercat. in Pensthorp ad nocum. mercat. Prioris in East Rudham. Pat. 2 Edw. I. m. 17. dorso, pro ten. in East Rudham. Cart. 13 Edw. I. n. 70. Escaet. Norf. 17 Edw. I. n. 49. de terris in Tittleshall. Pat. 9 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 29. de seperali piscaria apud Thorp-market et Rughton. Pat. 19 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 22. pro mess. et terris in Grimston, &c. concess. per Matild. de Thoney. Pat. 3 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 4 vel 5. Escaet. Norf. 9 Edw. III. n.. de maner. de West Wretham Thorp, ex dono Thomæ de Nethergate. VOL. VI. spectantes. Hujus autem donationis et renovationis testes sunt Willielmus Norwicensis archidiaconus, Tureldus capellanus; Radulfus de Snaringes, Ernaldus capellanus, Adam de Calna, Radulfus clericus de Sarlingham, Johannes dapifer, Petrus constabularius, Willielmus de Backetuna, Arthur, Adam filius Johannis dapiferi, Willielmus filius Ranulfi. NUM. IL [Lel. Col. vol. i. p. 58.] FUNDATORES Gulielmus Cheny, Johannes Cheny, et Carta Hervici Belet, de Manerio de Rudham. SCIANT præsentes et futuri, quod ego Herveius Beleth dedi Deo, et sanctæ Mariæ, et canonicis de Cokesford, manerium meum de Rudham cum pertinentiis, et quicquid inde mihi accidere potuit, vel debuit accidere, in villa et extra, scilicet in Crython, Markham, Sydesterne, Beremere, et Croft, ad sustentationem cujusdam hospitalis ad Boycodeswade, ex parte occidentali à me constitutum, et ad sustentationem cujusdam capellani in eadem domo in habitu sæculari, perpetuò ministraturo, pro anima mea et dominæ Emmæ de Kayneto matris meæ, &c. Pat. 9 Edw. III. p. 2, m. . de eodem manerio. Fin. div. com. 19 Ric. II. n. 110. Claus. 11 Hen. VI. m. 20. de advoc. Prioratus." See the Taxat. P. Nich. IV. pp. 82 b, 86, 86 b, 89 b, 91, 95, 95 b, 96, 96 b, 97 b, 98, 99, 99 b, 100 b, 102, 102 b, 105, 105 b, 106, 106 b, 108 b. Rot. Hundr. pp. vol. i. 452, 453, 535. Abbrev. Plac. p. 57, 89. Among the Charters given to the British Museum by the late Lord Frederick Campbell, is a fragment of a Terriar, or Register of the Lands of Cokesford Priory in Beremere, Westrudham, and Estrudham "secundum novas abuttationes," 12 Hen. IVth. It is marked L. F. C. xxi. 8. 3 B Bourn, formerly Brunne Priory, in Lincolnshire. BALDWIN FITZ GILBERT, says Tanner, in or before the year 1138, settled here an Abbat and Canons of the Order of St. Austin. His charter, bearing this date, is recited in an Inspeximus of the 1st Edw. III. copied in the Appendix to the present Account." Another charter, printed by Dugdale, relates to the possessions of this House at Chichester. Tanner says, herein were maintained eleven ROBERT DE HAMME, 1248.e NO REGISTER of this Priory is at present known to be extant." Appendant to the Acknowledgment of Supremacy of this Abbey in the Chapter House, Westminster, is an Impression on red wax of the COMMON SEAL, of a round form, having on it St. Peter with his keys, seated. Legend, SIGILLVM. ECCLESIE. BEATI. PETRI. AP'L. DE. BRVNNA. The Lansdowne Manuscript 255, fol. 12 b. contains the Coat of ARMS of this House, a sword between two keys, exactly similar to the Coat which Bishop Tanner gives to Bromere in Hampshire. The Reversion of the Site and demesne of this House was granted in the 30th Hen. VIIIth, 21 Dec. to Richard Cotton of Bedhampton, Johanna his wife, and their heirs." Some small Remains of Bourn Priory are still in existence. Cartae ad Abbati am de Brunne, in agro Lincolniensi, NUM. I. spectantes. Diploma Regis Edwardi Tertii, Cartam Fundationis ejusdem Abbatiæ, necnon diversorum Donationum recitans et confirmans. [Cart. 1 Edw. III. n. 41. per Inspex. Vide etiam Ib. n. 38 et 47. Et Claus. 17 Edw. II. m. 24. Claus. 8 Edw. II. m. 10. Claus. 4 Edw. III. m. 26.] INSPEXIMUS cartam quam Baldevinus filius Gisleberti, fecit in hæc verba. "Baldevinus filius Gisleberti omnibus sanctæ matris ecclesiæ filiis, tam præsentibus quàm futuris, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et donâsse, annuente filio meo Rogero et uxore mea Adhelina, domino Gervasio abbati de Arroasia, ecclesiam de Brunna, liberam et absolutam ab omni exactione sæculari, cum omnibus appendiciis suis, et duas carrucatas terræ in campis ejusdem villæ. Ita videlicet, quod prædictus abbas secundùm consuetudinem et "Summa valoris Summa reprisarum Et valet clare d MS. Harl. 6950. p. 139. e è Ibid. P. 147. 8d. f MS. Harl. 6958. p. 211. Tanner's references to Manuscripts and Records concerning Bourn are, "Collect. e rotulis Hundred. Linc. 3 Edw. I. MS. Dodsworth, vol. lxxxix. fol. 55. Plac. in com. Linc. 9 Edw. I. assis. rot. 72. de advoc. eccl. de Helpringham. Pat. 7 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 24. pro mess. et terris in South Willoughby, Dembleby, &c. Claus. 8 Edw. II. m. 10. Pat. 12 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 20. Cart. 1 Edw. III. n. 38, 47. Esc. 4 Edw. III. n. 52. Linc. de bosco et pannagiis porcorum in Brunna. Pat. 4 Edw. III. p. 2, m.. Pat. 24 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 10, 11, vel 12. de excom. Simonis Walton abbatis per episc. Lincoln. Pat. 26 Edw. religionem sui ordinis, abbatem et canonicos in eadem eccle- In the King's Rememb. Office is an Instrument thus entitled, "Brunne Abb.-Literæ Regis Paten. Abbati et Conventui de Brunne et successoribus suis de Prioratu de Willesford."-Hil. 9 Hen. IV. rot. 1. In the Lord Treasurer's Rem. Office, "Brunne.-Carta Regis Abbati ibidem de Terris concessis in Com. Linc."-Pasch. Rec. 4 Hen. VII. rot. 3. Repert. Orig. vol. iii. p. 74. |