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Cell of Calcwich, or Calewyk, in Staffordshire.

TANNER says, "The Hermitage here was given to the Priory of Kenilworth before the year 1148, by Nicholas de Greselei Fitz Nigell, and therein was placed a small Convent of Black Canons. This House was given by the King, 27th Hen. VIIIth,d to the Monastery of Merton in Surrey, in exchange for the manor of East Molsey, and, as parcel of the same, was again granted, 34th Hen. VIIIth, to John Fleetwood.' The Particular for this Grant is in the Augmentation Office.

Tanner says "Vide Cartas originales, &c. penes . . . . Fleetwood Var. de Plac. in com. Staff. 21 Edw. I. quo war. rot. 6. alloc. libertatum in maner. de Adelaxton, &c.'

The only names of PRIORS or MASTERS of this House which have occurred, are HUGH BELY, and THOMAS DE FAMCOTE; the latter of whom occurs in the Registers of the See of Canterbury about A.D. 1388.

Austin Cell of Halywell, in Warwickshire.

THE following Observations on this Priory were communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, in 1817, by William Hamper, Esq. in a Letter addressed to one of the Editors of the present Work.f

"Bishop Tanner in his Notitia Monastica, under Warwickshire, article xiii., places the Austin Cell of Halywell upon Watling Street,' and describes it as a Cell or chantry of Black Canons belonging to the Abbey of Roucester in Staffordshire, which, on account of its solitary and dangerous situation, was, 19 Edw. II. A.D 1325, removed to the conventual church of the Abbey.' He then adds, as his authority, the following extract from the Patent Roll of that year, p. 1, m. 10. Rex concessit Abbati de Roucestre in Dovedale, quod ipse Capellam de Halywell in com. Warwic. quæ sita est in loco solitario et periculoso super regiam stratam de Watlyng Strete, ubi latrones frequenter latitant et canonicos ibidem morantes depredantur, a loco illo amovere, et Cantariam pro animabus Roberti de Cotes et Ricardi Filons in eadem capella dudum ordinatam in ecclesia conventuali ipsius Abbatis de Roucestre facere et sustentare, ac lum spectantes penes v. cl. Petrum Le Neve arm. Norroy, quarum una est Rogeri Bygod com. Norf. et maresch. Angl. temp. Edw. I. Pat. 4 Edw. I. m. 35. d. de ten. in Winterton et East Somerton. Pat. 11 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 14. de terris in Felthorp et advoc. Ecclesiæ. Ibid. m. 15. pro terris in Clippesby, Ouby, et Burgh. Pat. 12 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 19. pro confirmatione donationum. Pat. 14 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 10. pro medietat. eccl. de Fishly perquirenda a Joanne Botetourt. Pat. 8 Ric. II. p. 2, m.. Escaet. Norf. 8 Ric. II. n. 64. pro mess. xcii. acr. terræ, &c. in S. Birlingham, Lingwode, Ocle, &c. et advoc. eccl. de Lingwood, ex concessu Marg. comitisse Norf." See also Taxat. P. Nich. IV. p. 99 b.

See Blomf, vol. v. p. 1459.

b"Prior de Calewyk." Prynne, vol. iii. p. 716. "Custos domus de Calewych." Taxat Lincoln. "Cella de Kalewyk." Ibid.

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duas virgatas terræ et dimid. cum pertinentiis, in Halywell, Church waure, et Clifton, quas idem Abbas tenet pro cantaria illa prædicta facienda et sustentanda, libere retinere,' &c. Dugdale does not notice this ancient religious establishment; and from the circumstance of finding no place now known by the name of Halywell, either upon or near the Watling Street, Mr. Carlisle, in the Sixteenth Volume of the Archæologia, p. 326, conjecturally places it at Stonythorpe near Southam, in another part of Warwickshire, where a spring of fine clear water is still called Holywell, or Halywell; observing, at the same time, that, as the Roman Fosse Way running northward out of Gloucestershire, is about two miles and three quarters from hence, and the Watling Street being far distant from it, it would seem more proper to designate this Cell, Halywell near the Fosse Way, than upon the Watling Street.'

"The result, however, of a recent investigation, in company with my friend Abraham Grimes, Esq. of Coton House, the proprietor of the estate, joined to the advantage of reference to his title deeds, enables me to fix its site at Because "temp. Rogeri episc. Cestr." See the Appendix to Kenilworth.

Therefore quære, Whether this Priory did not get free from its dependance on Kenilworth, which was not surrendered till 29 Hen. VIII.

e Erdswick in his Staffordshire, p. 179, says, "From Mayfield the Dove passeth to CALWICHE. whereof I can only make this report, that being or belonging to a Cell or House of Religion, now a Lancashire gentleman is owner thereof; who, as I have heard, hath made a parlour of the chancel, a hall of the church, and a kitchen of the steeple; which may be true, for I have known a gentleman in Cheshire who hath done the like."

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Cave's Inn, upon the Watling Street, in the manor of Coton, and parish of Church Over; where a rapid and unceasing spring still preserves the character of the spot, though the tradition of its former sanctity and importance has totally ceased; and where, in the year 1791, in sinking the foundation for the present Inn, which succeeded a decayed halftimbered house, several bushels of human bones were discovered. Cave's Inn was so denominated, as will be seen below, from its occupier Edward Cave, grandfather of the original projector of the Gentleman's Magazine, whose biographer, Dr. Johnson, calls it 'Cave's in the hole, a lone house on the street road,' adopting the very phraseology of the above-recited Patent, in the 19th Edw. II. . . . in loco solitario... super regiam stratam de Watlyng Strete.'

"I shall now proceed, as far as my scanty materials will allow, to trace the history of this long-neglected place; premising that Mr. Caley did me the favour to examine the Ministers' Accompts and various other records in the Augmentation Office, relative to Roucester Abbey, both before and after the Dissolution, without finding one word of Halywell, though as he observes, 'it undoubtedly belonged to it at an early period, as is apparent both from the Patent and Close Rolls.' Robert de Cotes and Richard Fiton, whose Chantry was here established, were contemporaries or nearly so, the former residing at Cotes, or Coton, in 1206, and the latter at the adjoining parish of Shawell in the county of Leicester, in 1235; and it seems likely that its establishment took place between the years 1240 and 1270. A.D. 1279, the following Inquisition occurs: 'Shathewell est de feodo Verdon, et Willielmus Fyton tenet in eâdem quartam partem unius feodi militis, &c. Item, Prior de Halywell, et Abbas de Croxton, tenent duas virgatas terræ in perpetuam eleemosynam; quo warranto ignorant.'

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"The following process concerning a boundary ditch at Shawell, is undated. Prior de Haliwell nihil capit per assizam versus Thomam Fithon, Alanum Ram, &c. de fossato quodam levato in Chawell.' A.D. 1291, in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IVth the abbat of Roucestre is rated twenty-six shillings and eight pence for temporalities within the Archdeaconry of Leicester, fol. 109 b, which subsequently appear, fol. 119 b, to have been in the Deanry of Gudlakston, doubtless at Shawell beforementioned. A.D. 1301, Pope Boniface VIII. in a Bull of Confirmation and Protection to the Abbat and Convent of Roucester, of which a curious early English translation is now before me, recognizes, inter alia, their 'Chirche of Seint Gyles of Halywel.'

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Staffordshire, xxi., refers to the Patent Roll 11 Edw. II. "Bishop Tanner, under Roucester, Notitia Monastica, P. 2, m. 35, for an entry, de messuagiis et terris in Holm juxta Clifton,' (now called Biggin, and lying contiguous to Library, for Præceptum regis de Capella de Haliwell, in Cave's Inn); and to Dodsworth's MSS. in the Bodleian com. Warwic. habenda Abbati et Conventui;' also to the Close Roll of the 14th year of that king.

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"A.D. 1325, 19 Edw. II., license was obtained, as has been before observed, to remove the establishment at Halywell to the Conventual Church of Roucester, for which the abbbat paid a fine of twenty shillings; and from that time, for a period of two hundred and sixty years, viz. till the 28th of Queen Elizabeth, A.D. 1585, I find no traces of it; when a close or pasture in Coton, called Hallowell,' occurs as part of the possessions of Elizabeth Dixwell, widow, by whose family it was probably purchased at the dissolution.'h

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Austin Cell of Letheringham, in Suffolk.

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LETHERINGHAM, CREW, or TREW, says Tan"William de Bodevile or Bovile having given the Church of St. Mary of Crew, and all the tithes of Letheringham, to the Monastery of St. Peter in Ipswich, temp. here was settled a small Priory of three or four Black Canons (as a Cell to that House) to the honour of the

Dugdale's Warwicksh. edit. Thomas, p. 12.

d Nichols's Leicestersh. vol. iv. p. 335.

ci. e. Shawell.

d Quære, If not a clerical error for Roucester.

• Nichols's Leicest. vol. iv. p. 336. from Esc. 7 Edw. I. Ibid. p. 336. from Mr. Roper's MSS. Abbreviatio Rot. Orig. ro. 11.

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"A.D. 1634, the premises were let upon lease for six years, to Nicolas Day of Daventry, millwright, by the name of Holywell House,' with six acres of land adjoining; and in 1657, described in a deed as all that auncient message or tenement now beinge in the tenure of one Edward Cave, and commonly called The New Inne, alias Hallowell howse, and all those closes commonly called Hallowell close and Hallowell meadow.'

"In the last named year, 1657, Elias Ashmole, Esq. writing to Dugdale on the subject of Roman Antiquities in this neighbourhood, says, a mile further (from Lilburn), in the valley, stands a house called The New Inn, distinguished only by its lying under Shawell. Mine host told me it had been an Abbey called Holywell.' See Nichols's Leicestersh. ut supra, p. 82.

"A.D. 1687, Brent Dixwell, Esq. granted a lease of it for sixty years to Edward Cave, by the concise designation of The New Inn' and, the name of the tenant ultimately prevailing, the place from thenceforward appears to have been known only, as it is at present, by the appellation of Cave's Inn: to the utter exclusion and extinction of its once celebrated name of Haly well."

Sir John Bovyle, as Leland. Not Sir John Boinet, as Weever and Speed.

"This might perhaps be the old name of the parish in which Letheringham was a hamlet, but the name not having elsewhere occurred, nothing can positively be asserted. In above twenty confirmations of the elections of Priors which are upon the bishop of Norwich's Registers this House is always called Letheringham; which is not

blessed Virgin, whose yearly income was valued, 26th Hen. VIIIth, but at 26. 18s. 5d. It was granted first to Sir Anthony Wingfield the patron, and 7 Edw. VIth, to Elizabeth Naunton, third daughter of the said Sir Anthony." m

Tanner's references to Records concerning Letheringham are below."

mentioned by Leland, but is certainly the same which he calls TREW (Collectan. tom. i. p. 62.) both by the name of the first founder Bovile, and also of the patrons the Wingfields, into which family the advowson came by a marriage with an heiress of the Boviles. Weever, p. 755 et 782.

"LETHERINGHAM PRIORATUS.

"Ex Fundatione Anthonij Wingfeld militis. "Willielmus Basse, Prior Monasterij ibidem. “Valet clare, temporalibus "Spiritualibus

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71. 16s. 9d.

19. 18. 8d.

Orig. 28 Eliz. p. 1. Suff. "Regina licentiam dedit Elizabethæ Naunton viduæ alien. dictum Prioratum de Letheringham cum pertinentiis in com. prædicto Henrico Naunton gen. et hæredibus suis." ro. lxxxij. Repert. Orig. vol. vi. fol. 82. MS. Brit Mus.

n He says, "Vide In lib. Instit. &c. in Registro principali episc. Norvic. notato xii. fol. 247. petitionem Will. de Bodevilla domino suo Gaufrido de Gandevika (forsan Glanvil), ut confirmaret canonicis St. Petri Gipwic, donationem suam eccl. S. Maria de Crew, decimarum de Letheringham et Thorp, &c. Arbitria duo inter domos S. Petri Gippovic. matrem et Letheringham filiam, super obedientia, electione Prioris, missione canonicorum, &c. facta per Walterum episc. Norvic. 11 kal. Feb. et non. Feb. A.D. 1254. Ibid. ff. 223, 239, 240. Commissionem, Inquisitionem, et Ordinationem super unione sive appropriatione eccl. paroch. de Hoo (cujus fuere vere patroni ex donatione Joannis Ducis Norf. et Katerinæ ducissa) canonicis de Letheringham, A.D. 1475 et 1482. Fin. Suff. 19 Hen. III. n. 179. Plac. in com. Suff. 14 Edw. I. coron. rot. . de feria apud Letheringham in vigil et die Assumptionis, B. Mariæ. Cart. 25 Edw. I. n. 19. pro feria ibidem." See also the Taxat. P. Nich. IV. pp. 27 b, 117, 124, 124 b, 125 b, 126, 128, 128 b.

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Priory of Tortington, near Arundel, in Sussex.

THIS was a Priory of five or six regular Canons of the order of St. Austin, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, and founded by the lady Hadewisa Corbet, before King John's time.*

At the Parliament holden at Westminster, March 16th, 3 Hen. V., the Prior and Convent of St. Mary Magdalen of Tortington next Arundel, desired remedy, for that the Earl of Arundel had encroached from them the manor of Clay, and sundry other hereditaments in the County of Sussex, there particularly named. It was answered, after livery sued out of the King's hand, that the Chancellor of England for the time being, calling to him the Justices of both Benches, should thereby have power to take order therein.b

The amount of the revenue of this Priory, as stated in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, will be found below.

PRIORS of TORTINGTON.

JOHN PALMER, 1376.

RICHARD LEE, 1404.

ROBERT LEE died 18 Hen. VI., when
JOHN LOFCROFT was chosen Prior May 7th.

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The Site was granted, in the 29th Hen. VIIIth, to Henry Lord Maltravers, and March 14th, 42 Eliz., to Sir John Spencer. See Madox, Hist. Excheq. vol. i. p. 621.

There is a Survey of this Priory in the Office of the Auditor of the Land Revenue of the reign of James the First.d

The Editors have not been able to meet with the SEAL of this Priory.

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Austin Cell of Calke, in Derbyshire.

MAUD, widow of Ranulph the second Earl of Chester, had before the death of Walter bishop of Coventry, which happened A.D. 1161, fixed here a Convent of Regular Canons of the Order of St. Austin; but afterward she removed most of them to the Priory of Repindon, to which this House at Calke continued a Cell till the Dissolution; and, as parcel of the possessions of Repindon, was granted

1 Edw. VI. to John Earl of Warwick. It is now the property of Sir George Crewe, Bart.

Mention of Calke has been already made in the Account of Repindon, Repingdon, or Repton Priory, in the present Volume, p. 429. We have here but little to add. Tanner refers to some Excerpts from the Charters granted to this House, preserved in the Harleian Manuscript 2044. fol. 82.b

Cella sive Prioratus de Calc, in agro Derbiensi.

NUM. I.

unum batum in piscatura Cestriæ, ubicunque voluerint, ad

Carta Matildis Comitissa Cestria de Advocatione Ecclesia piscandum, cum unâ mansurâ terræ ad opus eorum pisca

de Rependone.

[Ex ipso autogr. penès Johannem Harpur de Calke in Com. Derb. Baronettum, 4o. Julii, anno 1664.]

WALTERO Dei gratiâ Coventrensi episcopo, universisquæ sanctæ matris ecclesia filiis, Matildis comitissa Cestriæ salutem. Vestra noscat sanctitas, me, concessu comitis Hugonis filii mei, dedisse Deo et S. Mariæ et canonicis de Calc, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, culturam quareriæ de Rependone juxta Trente, simul cum advocatione ecclesiæ sancti Wicstani de Rependone, cum omnibus eidem pertinentibus; conditione hac, quod conventus ibi constet tanquam capiti, cum opportunitas idonea hoc expetierit, cui Calc subjiciatur membrum: ejus etenim dioecesis semper permansit. Prece igitur multimodâ vestram exoro dulcedinem, quatinus hanc elemosinam concilio vestro caritativè incœptam permanere faciatis ratam. Testibus, ipso comite Hugone filio meo; Willielmo abbate Lileshile; Helia priore de Bredune; Rogero capellano; Turri clerico; Aluredo de Cumbrei; Luvel de Hesbi; Nicholao de Mealtone, et multis aliis, apud Rependone. Valete.

NUM. II.

Carta Hugonis Comitis Cestria.

[Ibid.]

H. COMES Cestriæ, constab., dapif., justiciariis, vicecomitibus, ministris, balivis, et omnibus hominibus suis, Francis et Anglicis, tam præsentibus quâm futuris, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse, et hac cartâ meâ confirmasse omnes possessiones, et omnes libertates ecclesiæ S. Egidii de Calc, et canonicis ibi Deo servientibus, pro animâ patris mei, et matris. meæ, et pro salute animæ meæ, et pro animabus antecessorum meorum in perpetuam elemosinam, sicut cartæ patris mei testantur et confirmant; viz. silvam in quâ habitant inter Sceggebroc et Aldrebroc, et parvam Geilbergam; et culturam inter Alebroc et Sudmude: et parvum molendinum de Rapindone, et quatuor bovatas terræ in Tichehale. Et ex dono Nicholai sacerdotis duas bovatas in eadem villâ; et capellam de Smithesbi. Et ex dono Gevæ Ridel unam mansuram terræ in Tamwurthâ. Et ex dono patris mei

toris. Et terram Loftescot; scil. sicut via descendit de Rapindone ad fontem Neuhathewelle; et sicut idem fons descendit usque ad metas Meeltone: et ex alterâ parte, sicut terminus Meeltone est, usque ad capud Loftescou. Et totam terram Eswini Esegar de Trengestonâ. Et præcipio, ut illa terra sit libera et quieta ab omni servicio, et ab omnibus causis et querelis, ut debet esse elemosina. Et insuper præcipio hominibus meis, ne eos inquietent, aut vexent aliquâ re; sed ipsi canonici prædictam terram teneant, in bosco et in plano, in aquis et molendinis, et in omnibus locis ita plenariè, sicut unquam aliquis eam tenuit tempore meo, et antecessorum meorum plenarius: et Reginaldum filium Alfwini de Rapindone, cum mansurâ suà, et cum duabus bovatis terræ eidem mansuræ adjacentibus; ipsum et suos hæredes solum et quietum ab omni seculari servicio, et de omnibus consuetudinibus; quæ pertinent me undredo Rapindone; et nominatim de placitis de Halemote ; et de omnibus querelis et occasionibus; ita quod quieté et liberè possideant imperpetuum: et præcipuè sit regi quietus de tolneio et pannagio, et omni consuetudine imperpetuum. Concedo etiam eidem præfatæ ecclesiæ, terram et servicium Nicholai armigeri patris nostri, in bosco et in plano, in rivis et in pascuis; in foro et extra; et viis et semitis, liberè et quietè, sicut unquam meliùs vel quietiùs ante eum tenuit. Insuper ad honorem Dei et supradictæ ecclesiæ, concedo eis eorum curiam, tam plenariam quàm habeo meam in Rapindonâ, cum tol et tem, et infaggenthef, cum omnibus consuetudinibus, quas ego vel aliquis antecessorum meorum, meliùs et plenariùs eis concedere potuit. Et volo et præcipio, quod teneant liberè et honorificè, et quietè, in bosco et in plano; in pratis et aquis; et viis et semitis; in foro et in mercato; in molendinis et in omnibus locis et omnibus rebus: et nominatim volo, quod de bosco meo habeant copiam ad omnia sua ædificia, et ad ignem. Has autem possessiones et præscriptas libertates præfati canonici habeant liberè et quietè, sicut cartæ patris mei testantur. Testibus, Radulfo de Meidinwarin; Alfredo de Cumbrai; Alfredo de Suleini; Ric. de Luvetot; Rogero de Livet; Giliberto filio Pigot; Roberto filio Giliberti; Willielmo clerico de Barvá; Bortramo camerario Sewalo; Alexandro fratre ejus; Radulfo de Bricheshard; Roberto Pincernâ; Willielmo clerico Barba Aprilis apud Barvam.

Thirling Priory, in Cambridgeshire.

BISHOP TANNER, Lysons in his Cambridgeshire, and Taylor in the Index Monasticus, are the only writers who have given us an Account of this Priory. Tanner, in the text of the Notitia Monastica, merely says, "A small Priory near Upwell." Adding in a Note, "I cannot give any account either of the foundation or valuation of this Priory; and yet it was in being 20 Hen. VIII., for I find it mentioned that year in the following manner: "There is a

a Tann. Notit. Monast. Derb. iv.

They consist of Three transcripts only of Charters: 1. Carta Gregorii de Diva Deo et ecclesiæ Sancti Egidii de Kale et religiosis viris ibidem Deo servientibus de baptismali ecclesia Sanctæ Annæ de

drayne from Upwell to Welney, and beginneth at Thirlinge-gate, which the Prior of Mermaud and the Chanon of THIRLINGE must clense. The river from Erith to Benwick, from Kirkewere to Dodney-Cote, Mr. Crofte shall clense; and from thence to the willow in Fagesfenne, the Prior of THERLING shall clense; from Mermaud to Thirling lake, the Prior of THERLING, the cellerer of Bury, and the prior of Mermaud shall clense.' A manor in Thirling and Upwell, Sutthona super Soram. 2. Carta Leodegarii de Dive, fil. Gregorii supradicti de eadem. 3. Carta Willielmi Patricii Deo et ecclesiæ de Calc de sex solidis annuatim de redditu molendini sui de Sutona super Soram.

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Priory of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Epswich, Suffolk.

TANNER says this Priory was "founded in the latter end of the reign of King Henry the Second, or beginning of that of King Richard the First, by the ancestors of Thomas Lacy and Alice his wife, which was suppressed by the authority of Cardinal Wolsey, March 6th, 1527, who having obtained bulls from the Pope, and letters patent from the King for the site and estate belonging to this Priory, founded 20th Hen. VIII., in the place where it stood, a College for a Dean, twelve secular canons, eight clerks, and eight choristers, to the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, together with a grammar school, which he designed as a nursery to his great College in Oxford. And for endowment of the same he farther procured the possessions of the late Monasteries of Snape, Dodnash, Wikes, Horkesley, Tiptre, Romborough, Felixstowe, Bromehill, Bliburgh, and Montjoy. But this noble foundation was scarce brought to perfection before the disgrace of that prelate (who was born in the town of Ipswich), and the site of the College, with good part of the lands belonging to St. Peter's Monastery, were granted, 23d Hen. VIIIth, to Thomas Alverde; and 9th James I. to Richard Percival and Edmund Duffield."

Taylor, in the Index Monasticus, speaking of the Priory of St. Peter and St. Paul, says, the churches of St. Edmund a Pountney, St. Austin, St. Mildred, St. Nicholas, St. Clement, St. Mary at Kay, St. Peter, and Thurleston, in Ipswich, and of Crelingham, Crew, Wherstead, Dokesworth; and the manors of St. Peter in Ipswich, Harrold in Burstall, St. Peter in Cretingham, and Hintlesham, and the tithes of St. Matthew in Ipswich, Letheringham, Thorp, &c., with revenues in many other parishes, were impropriated to this Priory.

An Impression from the COMMON SEAL of the Priory of St. Peter and St. Paul exists in the ChapterHouse, Westminster, of the date of 1290. The subject of it is a Church with a Tower, on the right side of which is St. Peter, on the left St. Paul. Legend. SIGILLVM. ECCLESIE. sci . PETRI. ET PAVLI. DE. GIPESWIC. The Seal is

round.

On the Site of this Priory, since its Dissolution, a spacious Mansion called Christ Church has been erected. The present possessor of the Site is Dykes Alexander, Esq.

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b Tanner, in his References to Records, has combined the two Houses, the Priory of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the Cardinal's College. His References to the Priory are, Vide in libro institutionum, &c. in registro D. episc. Norvic. xii. fol. 247. de donatione eccl. de Crew et decimarum de Letheringham et Thorp per Will. de Bodevilla; necnon compositionem de subjectione Prioratus de Letheringham huic Monasterio, A.D. 1254. In volumine Cartarum mearum originalium, Jackson inscripto, n. 66. cartam Will. de Badele, confirm. donationem Rogeri Badele fratris de medietate molend. de Haneford canonicis. In vol. Appleton, n. 94. cartam Clementis burgensis de Gippewico, pro reddit. in Gippewico ad sustentationem luminis ante altare B. Mariæ in eccl. Prioratus, A.D. 1262. Fin. Suff. 4 Joan. n. 33. de terris in Raindon. Fin. Suff. 9 Joan. n. 71. de advoc, eccl. de Wersted ex dono Gerardi de Wachesham. Fin. Suff. 3 Hen. III. n. 81. pro terris in Hintlesham. Fin. Suff. 14 Hen. III. n. 14. Fin. Suff. 35 Hen. III. n. 170. Escaet. Suff. 21 Edw. I. n. 93. de terris in Thurleston. Escaet.

Suff. 31 Edw. I. n. 78. de manso elargando. Pat. 31 Edw. I. m. . Escaet. Suff. 14 Edw. II. n. 172. de toftis quibusdam in Gippewico, et terris in Whersted, Belsted, &c. Pat. 14 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 4. pro eisdem. Pat. 3 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 14 vel 15. Escaet. Suff. 5 Edw. III. n. 158. pro molendino in Sproughton. Pat. 6 Edw. III. p. 1, m.. Pat. 18 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 9. pro eccl. de Dokes worth S. Johannis. Pat. 36 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 35. pro ten. in Thurleston, Claydon, &c. Escaet. Suff. 38 Edw. III. n. 16. de terris in Whitingdon, &c. Pat. 38 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 11. Escaet. Suff. 15 Ric. II. p. 2, n. 160. de molendino et terris in Thurleston, &c. Pat. 16 Ric. II. p. 1, m. 31. pro eisdem

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Rec. in Scacc. 5 Hen. VIII. Hill. rot. 29." See also the Taxat. P. Nich. IV. pp. 115 b, 117, 117 b, 119 b, 124, 124 b, 125, 125 b, 126, 128, 128 b, 129, 129 b, 133. Rot. Hundr. vol. ii. pp. 142, 144, 150, 177. Abbrev. Plac. p. 88.

Tanner's References to Records concerning the Cardinal's Foundation of Ipswich College are, "Pat. 20 Hen. VIII. p. 1, m.". pro fundatione Collegii. Rec. in Scacc. 20 Hen, VIII. Hil. rot. 13. pro fundatione Collegii Cardinalis in Gippewico. Ibid. rot. 26. de concessione Prioratus S. Petri eidem Collegio." Tanner has previous references to the Deeds relating to Wolsey's foundation printed by Rymer in the Fœdera, viz. "tom. xiv. fol. 240. Bulla P. Clementis, pro Card. Ebor. de suppressione Monasteriorum de Romborow, Felixstow, Bromehill, Blyburgh, et Montjoy, et applicatione proventuum Collegio in villa de Ipswich extruendo prid. id. Maii 1528. Ibid. p. 241. ejusdem Papæ Bulla suppressionis Monasterii S. Petri Ord. S. Augustini in villa de Ipswich, et erectione ibid. Collegii clericorum secularium prid. id. Maii 1528. Ibid. p. 246, 247. ejusdem Papæ Bullæ duæ pro dismembratione possessionum quondam Monasteriorum de Snape, Dodnash, Wikes, Horkesley, et Tiptree a Collegio Cardinalis in Oxonia, et applicatione earundem Collegio Cardinalis in Ipswich, prid. kal. Jun. 1528. Ibid. p. 257. Bulla exemptionis Collegii Cardinalis in Ipswich ab omni jurisdictione archiepiscoporum, episcoporum, &c." Some of these are also in the Appendix to the Cardinal's Life by Fiddes, London, 1724. fol.

• Dugdale in the former edition of the Monasticon, vol. i. p. 1036. inserted the name of this Priory among those Aliens which were suppressed by the Statute of Leicester 3 Hen. V. 1414: a mistake, not easily to be accounted for.

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