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HISTORIC 
 
 COLLECTIONS, 
 
 RELATING TO THB 
 
 MONASTERIES IN DEVON, 
 
 By the Reverend GEORGE OLIVER, 
 
 OF EXETER. 
 
 Tot decora artificumque manus, tot nota sepulcra 
 Totque pics cineres, uua ruma premit. 
 
 Sanazar, EI.E&. Lib. 2. Od. 9. 
 
 EXETER : 
 PRINTED BY K, CCIiLtJM. 
 
 1830. 
 
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 
 CHAJILES LORD CLIFFORD, 
 
 BARON CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEI6H, 
 
 THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS ARE, 
 
 WITH SINCERE RESPECT 
 
 AND A LIVELY SENSE OF GRATITUDE, 
 
 INSCRIBED 
 
 BY HIS LORDSHIP'S 
 
 MOST OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, 
 
 GEORGE OLIVER. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 SFAOS 
 
 T. Nicliolas' Priory, Exeter 1 
 
 St. Andrew's Priory, at Cowi* 10 
 
 St. Catharine's Priory, at Folslo 16 
 
 St. James's Priory, near Exeter 21 
 
 Collegiate Churcli, at Crediton 24 
 
 Plympton Priory 30 
 
 Tavistock Abbey 40 
 
 Ford Abbey 49 
 
 Newenham Abbey 5G 
 
 TorAbbey 60 
 
 Backfastleigh Abbey €7 
 
 Buckland Abbey ; . . , 71 
 
 Dunkeswell Abbey 75 
 
 Hartland Abbey 79 
 
 Collegiate Church of-St. Maiy, of Oteiy 83 
 
 St. John's Hospital, Exeter 93 
 
 Franciscan Convent, Exeter 9S 
 
 Dominican Convent, Exeter '. . 101 
 
 Frithlestock Priory 105 
 
 Totnes Prioi-y 107 
 
 Canonsleigh Nunnery 112 
 
 Coi-nworthy Priory 116 
 
 Modbury Priory 119 
 
 Barnstaple Prioi-y 124 
 
 Pilton Priory ; . 127 
 
 jSlapton, Collegiate Church 130 
 
 IIaccom1)e Archpreshytery 133 
 
 St. Gabriel's Chapel, at'Clyst ^ 140 
 
 Ipelpen Priory •' 142 
 
 Otterton Prioiy 143 
 
 Axmouth 148 
 
 Carsvrell Priory 149 
 
 Chnltnleigh, Collegiate Church t 150 
 
!P3^IE®^<©I§o 
 
 Jam nee vetustis sculpta scientiis 
 Famosa moles peistat et aureis 
 Inseripta Majorum sepulchris 
 f^nditus occuljuere saxa. 
 
 Humana quidquid composait manus 
 Humana cursns disjieiet. 
 
 Casimiri LYRICOBUM,,Lib. 4. 
 
 JLN ingenuous minds, so strong is the impression 
 produced by the recollection of departed worth and 
 excellence, that, by an easy association of ideas, they 
 respect and venerate the very places where these 
 memorable characters were born, where they lived, 
 or where they gave particular proofs of talent or 
 heroic virtue. No one can read the beginaing of 
 the third book de Oratore, without experiencing the 
 tender enthusiasm which prompted Cicero to gp and 
 gaze at the spot where stood the immortal patriot 
 and orator, Lucius Crassus, when, he delivered his 
 last and energetic oration — " Post Crassi interitum 
 veniebamus in Curiam, ut vestigium illud ipsuni, in 
 quo ille postremum instilisset, contueremur. O fal- 
 lacem homiuuni. spem fragilemque fo-rtunanP'! !t" I 
 trust, therefore, that in a Christian country It will 
 not be considered less laudable and innocent, if I 
 invite the reader to shed the tear of sympathy over 
 departed greatness, and to walk over the mouldering 
 ruins of those venerable edifices, once the seats of 
 literature and religious virtue, the repositories of art, 
 the monuments of the piety and skill of our Catholic 
 forefathers, the sanctuaries of bospitaUty, and the 
 
 B 
 
11 PREFACE. 
 
 pride and ornament of this beautiful county. I trust 
 that my researches will be useful ; and if they shall 
 excite others to enter into my labors, and to perfect 
 these Historical Collections, I shall think myself 
 abundantly rewarded. 
 
 To the registers of the see of Exeter I am greatly 
 indebted for the materials of this work. Those offi- 
 cial records are of indisputable authority; and no one 
 should undertake to write the ecclesiastical, or even 
 the civil history of Devonshire or Cornwall, without 
 having studied them thoroughly. To John Jones, 
 Esq. of Franklyn, I am proud to acknowledge my 
 obligations for his valuable assistance ; and the Right 
 Honorable Lord Clifford is entitled to my warmest 
 thanks, for his constant encouragement, and for the 
 unreserved use of the library at Ugbrooke. 
 
 I shall proceed to throw together some few parti- 
 culars respecting the authority of the Bishop of 
 Exeter, over the ReUgious within his diocese, and 
 respecting the state of monastic learning, and the 
 manner of electing the Abbots and Superiors. Of 
 the architecture of the religious houses I forbear to 
 say any thing, as the remains are so trifling. It is 
 singular, that not one of the numerous '• conventual 
 churches'" in Devon is now standing. 
 
 In the first place, the permission of the Diocesan 
 was necessary, previous to the foundation of any 
 monastic establishment. This is clear, from fol. 
 96 — 97 of Bishop Bronescombe's Register* con- 
 cerning Buckland Abbey. The regular Clergy, ge- 
 nerally speaking, (Friars Minors not even excep/ted) 
 depended on the Diocesan for faculties to absolve 
 penitents. The Bishops had also the power of vi- 
 siting the religious houses, and they appear to have 
 considered this as a duty of primary importance; in 
 fact, the attention which they paid to this poiat, 
 contributed, above all others, to support regular 
 discipline, and to prevent licentiousness. And from 
 a careful inspection of the registers, I think myself 
 justified in asserting, that the abbey of Ford, and 
 
 • These registers begin with the deuth of Bishop Bloniiy, December 26 
 1?57. Bishop Bytton's, from the year 1292 to 1306, is unfortunately lost ; 
 but the acts of the other Bishops, until the chiinge of religion, ore for tlie 
 most part in the highest state of preservntion. 
 
PREFACE. ill 
 
 especially the abbey of Tavistock, which attempted 
 to throw obstacles in the way of episcopal visi- 
 tations, were, both in a spiritual and a temporal point 
 of view, the worst regulated communities in the 
 diocese of Exeter. It appears also, from the regis- 
 tered acts of the Bishops, that corrodies could not 
 be granted without the episcopal licence, and that, 
 in several instances, the revenues were sequestered 
 during long vacancies, or in consequence of the 
 improvident administration of the acting Superiors : 
 indeed, if the Diocesans had not occasionally inter- 
 fered, to preserve the property of certain monasteries, 
 the whole must have been squandered away by the 
 prodigality or the carelessness of the persons who 
 were charged with its administration. Some of the 
 Abbots had private seals, and an Abbot of Tavi- 
 stock* is charged with the most crying injustice, in 
 signing away the property of the community. 
 
 In the registers above mentioned are several epis- 
 copal mandates, directed to different monasteries. 
 In these, the Bishop points out the irregularities 
 which had been discovered during the course of 
 the visitation. They chiefly relate to breaches of 
 regular discipline, or of the vows of poverty and 
 obedience. Perpetual silence is strongly enforced 
 in the dormitory, where a lamp was to be kept burn- 
 ing the whole of the night, as enjoined in the 22d 
 chapter Of the rule of St. Benedict. In the cloisters, 
 rigid silence was to be observed at certain hours, 
 " cert is horis," but not perpetually, as some writers 
 have contended. I am happy to find, that the 
 grosser immoralities (I mean against the virtue of 
 chastity) were veKy far from being common ; and if 
 it be a proof of innocence, as even Bishop Burnet 
 acknowledges, when the IVlonks received pensions 
 at the dissolution of the religious houses, we may 
 fairly conclude, that our Devonshire communities 
 must have been eminently virtuous; since the 
 
 * Vide fol. 160, vol. 1. Reg. Grandissoni A. D. 1348. 
 
 N.B, Generally speaki^g, the common seal and all the public muni- 
 ments and records of the monasteries, were kept under three different locks 
 and keys. This seal could not be validly used without the consent of the 
 majority and more respectable part of, the cornmunitv, " maiore & saniore 
 i«irle eonventUs." ■ > ^ 
 
 B 2 
 
jy PREFACE. 
 
 Crowa granted an annuity to almost every individual 
 
 member. , , ^ 
 
 As ftiF as I can collect, the average fee payable to 
 the Bishop, at the visitation, was 20s. 
 
 Of the state of learning in our Devonshire monas- 
 teries, I regjret to have fousd so few materials to 
 enable me to form a satisfactory opinioo. If Ice- 
 land's Collectanea (where some account is given of 
 the books that he found in the conventual libraries) 
 were made the criterion, we should be inclined to 
 think unfavourably of their application to lileratuxe. 
 But the impartial observer would not be precipitate 
 in deciding : he would recollect that Leland's plan 
 was vastly too extensive, even for his industry and 
 extraordinary ability — that it is but a rapid sk«teh* 
 of what he saw and heard. Again, that Leland was 
 no friend to the monasteries, and that he had an 
 interest in their suppression. Besides, it is reason- 
 able to suppose, that the religious themselves, seeing 
 the storm ready to burst on them, and conscious that 
 their houses were devoted to pillage and destruction, 
 would secrete or remove their most valuable manu- 
 scripts and records. Again, we must take into our 
 consideration the spirit of havoc and fanaticism that 
 stalked abroad at the period of the Dissolution.f 
 We may also form some estimate of what literary 
 treasures may have existed in our Devonshire monas- 
 teries, by what we know did actually exist in some 
 other religious houses in other parts of England. la 
 Peterborough Monastery the books amounted to two 
 thousand ; in Glastonbury Abbey the manuscripts 
 were almost innumerable. I must not omit stating, 
 that Ford Abbey, in this county, was in high repute 
 for learning ; that Tavistoekj: could boast of its 
 
 • Compare his jejune account of the MSS in the library of St. Paul's 
 Church, LbndQn, -With the oaUilogue given by Dugdale, 
 
 f The Reformation give a sudden check to the progress of literKture. 
 Wood, in page Z6S, liD. I . Hist, et Antiqu. Cniversitatis Oxoniensis, de- 
 scribes the state of that University, in the year 1546, «s truly deplorable'. 
 He says, that formerly there -were tiiree hundred halls, or more, in Oxford, 
 but were then reduced to eight ; and he tidds, " Sane quidem literatorum 
 studia torn penilus restinxit Canobiorum eversio, ut juvenes nrtes omnes 
 ingenuBs perdendas iri suspicati, ad munera oiviUa, vel etiam mechanica 
 sese converterint." 
 
 I A printing press was erected in this abbey at a very early period. 
 Ames, in p. 430—468 of his History of Printing, mentions Walton's 
 
PREFACE, V 
 
 Saxon school ; and that I find no complaint of a 
 deficiency of books in the account of the episcopal 
 visitations, except in one instance — viz. Hartland 
 Abbey.* Now the silence of such a sagacious and 
 very learned Prelate, as Bishop Stapeldon undoubt- 
 edly was, may be construed into an argument in 
 favor of the other provincial monasteries : in fact, it 
 was a considerable employment of the Monks to 
 transcribe manuscripts ; and it was very usual for 
 the Clergy and others to bequeath their oollectionsto 
 the conventual libraries. In the course of this work 
 the reader will find an Archdeacon of Exeter, A. D. 
 1266, granting his libraTy to the Fjranoisean convent 
 ill Exeter, and a Clergyman leaving 136 books to 
 the library of Ottery College, A. D. 1445. 
 
 With respect to the mode of electing "the Superiors 
 of religious houses, it appears, from the registers, to 
 have been conducted With great regularity and so- 
 lemnity. The canont law had determined thai no 
 vacancy should continue beyond the space of three 
 months. As soon then, as the body of the deceased 
 Superior was consigned to ecclesiastical burial, 
 the convent made application to the patron J of their 
 house, i. e. to the founder, or the representative of 
 the founder's family, for permission to proceed to 
 the election of a successor. When this permission 
 was obtained, the Mass de Spfiritu Sancto was cele- 
 brated at the high siltar, on the day appointed foi the 
 eJlection, and afterwards the signal was given for 
 repairing to the ehapter-^house. Here a short in- 
 struction was delivered, suitable to the occasion, Ijy 
 one of the community, and the names of the mem- 
 bers who had voices at the election were called over 
 
 translation of Boetius de Consolatione, " enprented in the ExenipfcMonasfery 
 ot Tavjstoke in Denshere, by me Dan Tliomas Rychard, Monke of the said 
 Monastery, 15Z5," 4to, and " The Confirmation cif the Tynners' Charter, 
 36, Ren. 8," in 16 leaves, 4to. 
 
 • Vide Bp. Stapeldon's Refe.fol. 14T adan 1319. 
 
 f " GonditoMs,C3nonum providS. deliberatione stataerunt quod ultra trei 
 nienie* vacare non debeant." — Registt. passim. N. B. All public business 
 was transacted in the chayrter-ihouse, 'and even -before dinner, unless some- 
 thing urgent requited the contrary. — iViide)fol.<423,-vpl. 3. Laey 's Reg. 
 
 X " -Patrons of abbeys shall have the custody of them during a vacancy." 
 See Magna Charta, 9. Hen. 3. 'N. B. If the vacancy exceeded the period 
 fixed % the canons, the collation devolved on the Bishop, "perlapsmn 
 temporis." 
 
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vi PREFACE, 
 
 by the President of the Chapter. The hymn Veni 
 Creator was then intoned, after which, the President 
 charged, in the name of God, every person that was 
 excommunicated, suspended and interdicted ; every 
 one, in fine, that was not concerned in the election, 
 to depart forthwith, that the community might pro- 
 ceed with perfect freedom. The patron's letter of 
 permission was then read, and tlie Constitution Qua- 
 propter. Each one then declared his choice ; and 
 when the majority of votes was collected, Te 
 Deum was solemnly chaunted, and the elect was 
 conducted to the high altar, where his election was 
 proclaimed to the assembled multitude. The consent 
 of the elect w^as then demanded ; and as soon as it 
 was obtained, an official account of the proceedings 
 was drawn up by an apostolic notary, who was 
 always an assistant on these occasions, and by him 
 was forwarded to the Bishop. Soon after, the elect 
 repaired to the Bishop for confirmation in his new 
 dignity, which of course was granted, (if nothing 
 uncanonical had transpired in the election) on his 
 taking the oath of obedience to the See, and affixing^ 
 his signature to this formulary, which was generally 
 deposited on the high altar. 
 
 I think I cannot conclude this Preface better, than 
 by transcribing the opinion of Thomas Hearne, A. M. 
 on monastic institutions, premising that this profound 
 scholar and very staunch antiquary was a steady 
 and sincere friend to the Church of England."* " I 
 cannot but publicly declare, that I think it would 
 have been more happy for the Church of England, 
 as well as for the nation at large, if Henry VIII, had 
 only reformed, and not destroyed, the abbeys and 
 other religious houses. Monastic establishments are 
 very ancient ; and it had been very laudable had he 
 reduced the manner of worship to the primitive form. 
 But then this would not have satisfied the ends of 
 himself and his covetous and ambitious agents. 
 They all aimed at the revenues and riches of the 
 religious houses. For which reason, no arts nor 
 contrivances were to be passed by, that might be of 
 
 • See his Preliminary Observations to Browns Willis's History of MitreiJ 
 Abbeys, 
 
PREFACE. Vii 
 
 use in obtaining those ends. The most abominable 
 crimes were charged upon the religious, and the 
 charge was to be managed with the utmost industry, 
 boldness, and dexterity. This was a powerful argu- 
 ment to draw an odium upon them, and to make 
 them disrespected and ridiculed by the generality of 
 mankind. And yet, after all, the proofs were so 
 insufficient, that, from what I have been able to 
 gather, I have not found any direct one against 
 even a single monastery. The sins of one or two 
 particular persons do not make a Sodom ; neither 
 are violent or forced confessions to be esteemed as 
 the true result of any one's thoughts. When, there- 
 fore, even these artifices would not do, the last ex- 
 pedient was put in execution, and that was ejection 
 by force." So far Mr. Hearne, to whose observa- 
 tions I may add the following extract from Mr. 
 Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, p. 
 207, 6th edit. 
 
 " It is not with much credulity I listen to any, 
 when they speak ill of those whom they are going 
 to plunder. I rather suspect that vices are feigned 
 or exaggerated, when profit is looked for in the 
 punishment. An enemy is a bad witness — a robber 
 is a worse." 
 
St. NICHOLAS' PRIORY, 
 
 EXETER. 
 
 X HE Priory of St. Nicholas can boast of high 
 anfiqnifty. It is clearly the foundation of William 
 the Conqueror, and, with the small church of St. 
 (Mave,* was made dependent on Battle Abbey ,t in 
 Sussex. 
 
 Ganterus, a Monk of Battle, was first deputed to 
 take charge orf this infant establishment. After a 
 short residence, he was appointed Abbot of Thorney, 
 in Cambridgeshire. Conb, who was named his suc- 
 cessor, is recorded to have interested liimself, most 
 warmly and most effectually, to promote the welfare 
 of this rdtigioHS foundation, tinder the patronage 
 of the founder's son, William Rufus, he succeeded in 
 building a new church and monastery, which he 
 dedicated to St. Nicholas ;% he procured a colony of 
 Moirks from Battle Abbey, and obtained of the 
 parent house a renunciation of all claim to the 
 church of St. Olave and its appurtenances, and to 
 
 * This Saint' was King of Norway, and was martyred by liis infidel sub- 
 jects A. D. 1028. See his acts (o) in the Appendix. 
 
 f See vol. 1. Dugd, Monastic, p. 313; aUo Domesday, Devensciie, Art. 
 liBbatailge. 
 
 % This Saint was the Archbishop of Myra, the capital of the province of 
 Lyoia, in Asia Minor. I}e died in 342. His memory has been held in par- 
 ticular veneration by the western churches, since the year 1087, when his re- 
 lics were brought from Lycia to Bari, a seaport in the kingdom of Naples. 
 
certain lands in Collumpton, with (he five prebends 
 of Uppetona, Colebroche, Hineland, Waevre, and 
 Esse, on condition that the Priory of St. Nicholas 
 should pay an acknowledgment of sixty shillings per 
 annum.* 
 
 From a letter addressed by the Primate, St. 
 Anselm, to O.sbern, the Bishop of Exeter, A. D. 
 1103, it appears that these new religions were not a 
 little molested by some of the secular Clergy of 
 Exeter, and that even the Bishop had forbidden 
 them to ring their bells agreeably to the custom of 
 the Benedictine Order. St. Anselm mildly rebukes 
 the indiscretion of both, inculcates the obligation of 
 charity, and feelingly recommends the religious to 
 the confidence and protection of the venerable 
 Bishop .t 
 
 King Henry I. befriended this^ royal foundation. 
 His donation of the land of Relisdon, then valued at 
 twenty-five shillings per annum, is given in the 
 Monasticon. But King John honoured this priory 
 with such particular marks of favor and distiootion, as 
 to deserve the name of a second founder. He gave it 
 the estate of Bradeham, then worth fifty shillings per 
 annum ; he granted them a moiety of the profits of 
 Lammas Fair, in Exeter, and I believe the whole 
 profits of St. Nicholas' Fair. In the fifth year of 
 his reign, when the eflFects of famine were severely 
 felt in Exeter, he addressed a brief to the SherifiF 
 of Devon, " that by the oversight of the Priour of 
 St. Nicholas, of Exceter, & II II Liege men of the 
 same Town be fed CCC poore people from the lid 
 of Maie till the dale of the Assumption of our Ladie, 
 so that everie one of them have dailie one lofe (foure 
 loaves shall be worth a penny) aod so much potage 
 made of the meale and herbes, while herbes may be 
 founde ; and when the cannot be gotten, of beanes 
 or of peason, wherebie they may be susteined that 
 they perlshe not. And it shall be allowed you at 
 our Exchequer." 
 
 * I om credibly informed tlint tbis acknowledgment partly continued to 
 be paid lo the Crown, from the time of the dissolution of the priory, until 
 the year 1780, wtlien the late Sir Robert Palk procured its redemption in 
 favor of Nathaniel Cosseratt, Esq, 
 
 f (b) Appendix. 
 
3 
 
 In fol. 91 — 2. of Bishop BronescomLe's Register, 
 three records are extracted from the ancient book 
 called " The Leger Pnoratfis Sci Nicholai Exon" — 
 a book that seems to have perished in 1731 (Oct. 23,) 
 at the fire in the Cotton Library.* The first is an 
 amicable composition between the Dean and Chapter 
 of St. Peter's, Exeter, and the Prior and Monks of 
 St. Nicholas, respecting certain tithes issuing from 
 two mills, and the fishery of the river Exe, near St. 
 Clement's Chapel, de Piscari^ super aqua que dicitiir 
 Exe prope Capellam Si Clementis.t The Chapter 
 resigns all claim and pretension to the said tithes, 
 on condition that the Prior and Convent pay them 
 forty-pence sterling, viz. twenty-pence at MichaeU 
 mas, and twenty-pence at Easter. This. composition 
 was made whilst Simon de Apuli4 was Bishop, con- 
 sequently between 1214 and 1224. The second 
 refers to a taxation, soon after, by Richard Blondy, 
 Chancellor to Bishop Brewer, for the better sup- 
 port of the Vicar of Cadbury. The Prior of St. 
 Nicholas is directed to allow the Vicar certain 
 houses on the north-side of the church, four acres 
 of land, and a part of the tithes. The third is an 
 agreement between the Prior and Julian, Rector of 
 Thorverton, respecting the tithes of the mill of Cad- 
 bury. The Prior agrees to pay him six-pence in lieu 
 of tithes. 
 
 Bishop Brewer, who succeeded Simon de Apulia 
 in the See of Exeter, was a benefactor to this esta- 
 blishment. We are informed by Bishop (jrra;ndisson, 
 fol. 12. vol. 2. of his Register, that he appropriated 
 to it the parish church of Poughill, in this county, 
 for the purpose of furnishing the conventual church 
 with lights, during the celebration of divine service. 
 
 The Abbots of Battle invariably presented the 
 Priors of St. Nicholas, who were generally religious 
 of that great monastery. Before we offer to the 
 reader the succession of the Priors that we have 
 been able to recover, we think it necessary to expose 
 
 •These three records are transcribed by Wm. Jermyns, (he Registrar 
 t^mp. R-eginee Elizab. 
 
 f The site of this chapel is still called " St. Clement's Meadow," and the 
 road leading to It, "Chapel Lane." 
 
and refute the current »nd received 'opinion, that 
 Alexander Necham was one of these Priors. The 
 faet is, that he was not even a member of tl»e 
 Benedictine Order, — he was even refu-sed admission 
 amongst the Ben€dietines, at St. Albans ; and in 
 consequence of this unreasonable rejection, heen'tered 
 the Augustine Order In 1213 his singular merits 
 raised him tp the digmity of AMwrt orf Oirenoester, 
 in Gloucestershire. After having governed this 
 Abbey, with credit to himself, and to the satisfaction 
 of the comtsunity, for the space of three years, he 
 retired to Worcester, and was buried either in the 
 cloisters or in the presbytery of that cathedral . — See 
 Leland's Collectanea, vol. 4, p. 158 — Leland's Iti- 
 nerary, p. 116. vol. 8 — Browne Willis' History of 
 Mitred Abbeys, Art. Cirencester — the learned Dr. 
 Milner's History of Winchester, vol. l,p. 217. 
 
 (FRIORS OF ST. NICHOLAS.^ 
 
 A. D. 
 
 The 1st that I meet with after Gunierus 
 and Cono, who have been already noticed, is 
 Peter, ad ann. 1212 
 
 See the Custumale of Otterton Priory, penes 
 Rev. Duke Yonge, Rectorem de Cornwood 
 
 2. Robert de Cumbwell, who resigned in 1258 
 
 3. Robert de iij^e succeeded 29th June, 1258 
 
 4. Roger, whb was elected Abbot of the mi- 
 tred monastery of Battle, in the summer of the 
 year 1318 
 
 5. William de Bum succeeded Roger, Aug. 
 28, 1318, and resigned soon after. 
 
 6. Robert, alias Lattrentius de Suing was 
 appointed William's successor, on the 14th of > 1319 
 January, 5 1320 
 
 N. B. Whilst he was Prior, A. D. 1321, the 
 belfry of bis conventual church fell suddenly 
 to the ground. John Drofcensford, Bishop of 
 Bath and Wells, granted an indulgence of 
 twenty days to -all who should oo&tribute to 
 its re-building. 
 
 7. Johnde Gordon, v/ho resigned in 1334 
 N. B. This Prior appears, from Biibop Gran- 
 
 disson's Register, to have been a man of bust 
 ness, and a most respectable character. 
 
8. John de Rrechon succeeded on the 9th of ^\. D. 
 the following September. He died Prior in the 
 early part of 1349 
 
 9. Jvhn de Tf^ye was admitted Prior on the 
 26th March that year, and died about 'two 
 months after. 
 
 10. Thomas Suyng succeeded June 6, and 
 resigned early in 1353. 1349 
 
 This Prior most shamefully neglected the 
 duty of residence, which drew from the zealous 
 and vigilant Bishop Grandisson the spirited 
 remonstrance recorded in his Register. In 
 consequence, the Prior deemed it most prudent 
 to tender his resignation to the Bishop, about 
 Easter, 1353, and which was readily accepted. 
 
 11. Matthew tjf Exeter was admitted his 
 successor, on the 17th of April. On this occa- 1353 
 sion Bishop Grasdisson admonished him, in 
 virtue of obedience, and under the penalty of 
 
 the greater excommunication, not to abandon 
 the priory, or lay down his office, without the 
 Episco{)aI license previously asked and ob- 
 tained. He resigned late in the year 1359 
 
 12. Gilbert de Lyndseye succeeded Dee. 3d, 
 that year. At his iqstitu.ti»n, Bishop Gran- 
 disson forbade him to grant any eorrodies or 
 perpetuities without his license, and the con- 
 sent of the Abbot of Battle. 
 
 This Prior lived to a great age. On the 
 16th July, 1388, Bishop Brantyngham, in con- 
 sideration of his years andinfirmities, " adverse 
 valetudine detentus &• senio eoafectus," ap- 
 pointed William Caatelbyry, a Monk of St. 
 Nicholas, to act as coadjutor to Prior Gilbert. 
 Before the Monk: eatered upon his office, the 
 Bishop charged him i<y make out an inventory 
 of the property of the convent, and), according 
 to established custom in these ca«es, to lay a 
 faithful statement of his accompts every year 
 before the community. 
 
 On the 29th October,. ,1389, the above-men- 
 tioned Bishop ordered the sentence of excom- 
 
A. D. 
 
 municationto be pronounced in the cathedral, 
 iind in all parochial churches and chapels in 
 the city of Exeter, against certain persons who 
 had unjustly invaded the property and privi- 
 leges of St- Nicholas' Priory. 
 
 13. Robert Bregge, who died early in 1396 
 
 14. Thomas Hankhersie succeeded on the 
 23d of May, that year, and resigned in the 
 spring of 1400 
 
 15. William ilXe»*sAe succeeded June 3, and 
 
 was elected Abbot of Battle on the 23d of July 1404 
 
 N. B. On the 8th of November, 1400, a little 
 box, containing the convent seal, was impru- 
 dently left in the chapter-house, and was stolen 
 in the course of that day. The seal is thus 
 described in fol. 61. of Bishop Stafford's Re- 
 gister : — " Sigillum rotundum fuerat, habens in 
 medio insculptum ad instar & similitudinem 
 Castri quadrati habentis in sui medio unam 
 turrim excelsam, «& iu angulis suis alias turres 
 bassiores & propugnacula, & super castrum 
 hujusmodiin un& parte Vetus Scutum Armornm 
 Regis Anglic cum tribus Leopardis, & in aliA 
 parte gladium erectum, & in ejusdem gladii 
 cuspide sive punctu Coronam Regiam, ac subter 
 Castrum Draconem gradientem insculpta. In 
 circumferencia vero sive circulo ejusdem sigilli 
 scriptura erat sic. 
 Sigillum; Eccle. Set Nicholai. Exonie." 
 Bishop Stafford requires, that the sacrilegious 
 robbers should restore it within fifteen days, 
 under pain of excommunication ; in the mean 
 while, all deeds and leases, sealed after the 8th 
 of November, were to be considered null and 
 void. As soon as the convent seal is returned, 
 the Prior is charged to break it up and destroy 
 it, as another seal was to be made " de diverse 
 sculpturA, & de ali& form&.* 
 
 • This Senl was recovered, and wns used until tbe dissolution of the 
 Priory. Amongst the records of the corporation of Exeter, 1 find it at- 
 tnclied to a bond of William CoUumntOD, the last Prior, bearing dale 
 10th August, 1538. 
 
A. D. 
 
 16. JfiUfam Bec/eef succeeded Wm. Mershe. 
 
 He died Prior early in 1414 
 
 17. John Underdowne, admitted Prior, June 
 
 7th. He died early in 1419 
 
 18. John Dalyngtnn, instituted March 9th, 
 that year. He died late in 1436 
 
 19. Stephen Feversham, admitted his suc- 
 cessor, on the 13th of the following January, 
 
 and died early in 1460 
 
 20. John Newton succeeded, and after go- 
 verning the Priory three years, was raised to 
 the dignity of Abbot of Battle. 
 
 21. Richard Wylsham succeeded on the 
 28th of June, 1463 
 
 22. John Herford, who died Prior in the 
 autumn of 1493 
 
 23. William Westfeld instituted on the 28th 
 of October, that year. He resigned early in 
 1499, to become Abbot of Battle. 
 
 24. John liewys admitted his successor on 1499 
 the 10th of April. He died late in 1522 
 
 25. Willidm Collumptcn, the last Prior ; suc- 
 ceeded on the 10th of the following January. 
 This Prior consented to the surrender of his ■ 
 convent,, in the autumn of 1536,. when the 
 three hundred and seventy minor monasteries, 
 whoselyearly.income was under three hundred 
 marks, or. £200, were dissolved by act of Par- 
 liament. It is. not a little singular, that he 
 presented to Brampfor.d Speke vicarage, as late 
 as the 14th of July, A. D, 1540. Vide fol.; 101, 
 vol. 1. of Bishop Vfiysey's Register.* 
 
 Dr. Tanner, in his.Notitia Monastica, a -work of 
 considerable merit and general accuracy, informs us, 
 that this Priory was founded for si.v Monks. Pro- 
 bably it was originally founded for so limited, a 
 numjjer; but I th^ak it fair to conclude, from the 
 numerous Subdeacons, Deacons, and Priests, that 
 were ordained ad titulum Sancti Nicholai, that the 
 community was afterwards considerably augmented . 
 
 * Thi» Prior was s^ill alive in 1553, in the receipt of tlie annuicy of £iO 
 which ha:l been granled him, when he surrendered his convent.^SeeB. 
 Willis', p. 61, vol. 2.of Abbies. 
 
,8 
 
 The annual revenues of the Priory, according to 
 Dugdale, were £147 12 ; aeeordlog to Speed, 
 £154 12 
 
 It presented, as appears from the Registers of the 
 See of Exeter, and Browne WHlls' Paroohiale An- 
 frlioanum, to the following places, in the county of 
 Devon — 
 
 To the rectory of Poughill. 
 
 The vicarage of Brampford Spek©.' 
 
 The vicarage of CoUumpton. 
 
 The vicarage of Cadbury. 
 
 The vicarage of Alphington. 
 
 The vicarage of Pinhoe. 
 
 The vicarage of Tawton Episeopi. 
 
 The curacy of Netherexe. 
 Also to Rakenford, for some time, as appears 
 from an extract of ' the Leger Book, inserted in 
 Bishop Bronescombe's Register. 
 
 Also to the parish church of St. Olave, in this 
 city. In the Taxatio Bonorum Ecclesiasticorum, 
 begun by order of King Edward I. A. D, 1288, and 
 finished in 1291, I meet with the following articles : — 
 
 £. s. d 
 Prior Sti Nichi Exon percipit in Ecclesi^ 
 
 StiOlavi I 
 
 In Eleclesi& de Clifton 6 
 
 In EcclesiA de Tawton (North) 1 6 8 
 
 In Civitat a Suburb Exon de redd 6 8 
 
 Apud Shirefordque taxatur ad 2 13 4 
 
 Apud Medebay quetax ad 13 4 
 
 Apud Combe ... 14 
 
 Apud Wener 16 8 
 
 Apud Bradeham 2 
 
 Apud* Cobelegb and Lechethale de redd ... I 6 8 
 
 Apud Bauntonde redd 2 
 
 Apud PothuU 16 
 
 Of this most ancient royal foundation, and by far 
 the most extensive and respectable of the monastic 
 establishments in this city, very considerable re- 
 
 ' " ' ' ' ' 'I III I a r- 1 
 
 • I observe, in a grant of King Henry VHI. dated August «6, AoBO 
 Regni 3Z, that these lands ore «alled Monkencobleigh, snd had reffiained 
 in the possession of the priory until its final suppression. 
 
mains and vestiges are still in existence ; but they 
 are not sufficient to enable me to ascertain the ori- 
 ginal ground plan. The greater part of the enclosure 
 is still called the Mint, probably a corruption of the 
 mynstre or the monastery : certainly vre have no ac- 
 counts of any coinage in any part of these premises. 
 At the period of the Dissolution, King Henry VIII. 
 made a grant of the priory to Sir Thomas Denys, 
 (as Dr. Tanner accurately observes) and he seems to 
 have sold it soon after to the Corporation of Exeter.* 
 Such was the barbarous taste of the new proprietors, 
 that they demolished the venerable structure of St. 
 Nicholas' Church, the ornament of their city, and 
 the admiration of strangers, for the miserable pu,r- 
 pose of getting materials to patch up the town walls, 
 and to stop up the gaps in Exeter bridge. 
 
 : O miseri, quae tanta insania, cives ! 
 How long the Corporation retained possession of 
 the premises, 1 cannot precisely say ; but I know 
 they ha.d disposed of them in lots before the accession 
 of King William III. A neat Catholic chapel, dedi- 
 cated to St. NicholaSj (now served by the author 
 of this worlr,) stands on part of the scite of the 
 ancient conventual church ; it was opened for pub- 
 lic worship in January, 1793; audio digging for the 
 foundatloQ, several graves, parts of monuments, mu- 
 tilated inscriptions, and quantities of carved mould- 
 ings were discovered. 
 
 This article might probably receive considerable im- 
 provement, if free access could be had to the archives 
 of the Coxporation, In a M.S. catalogue of the 
 deeds, books, and papers, that are contained in the 
 two presses in the council chamber, meation is made 
 of the following documents : 
 
 1. Accts. of the manor of St. Nicholas. 
 
 2. An old reatal of St. Nicholas' manor. 
 
 3. Court Rolls of the manor of St. Nicholas. 
 
 4. Fragment of a Court Leet Book of the manor 
 of St. Nicholas. 
 
 * Izacke maintains, that the Corporation purchased the priory from the 
 Crovon in 1549, aiid that the bridge oter the Exe was repaire4 vrith the 
 -stones of the demolished aburch, in 1539 ! !! 
 
 King Henry 8, on the 20th- of March, Xnno Regni 34°. leased the rec- 
 tory of Cadbury and Netherexe, to Will. Sljerlande, Gent, during a term 
 ei il years, for the sum of 53s. and 4d per annum. 
 
 .C. 
 
10 
 
 St. ANDREW'S PRIORY, 
 
 AT COWIC 
 
 In the second vol. of Dagdal^'s Monasticon, a 
 charter is given of Henry II. specifying: and confirm- 
 ing the estates, in England, then belonging to the 
 celebrated abbey of Bec,t in Normandy. 
 
 In this charter, the manors of Cuwic and Exewic 
 are mentioned as the donations of William, the son 
 of Baldwin. Gough, in his edition} of Camden's 
 Britannia, asserts, that this William was the founder 
 of Cowic Priory, daring the reign of the above-men- 
 tioned Sovereign. The first mention that I have 
 fonnd of this priory, in authentic records, is in the 
 inquisition taken after the death of John Lord Cour- 
 tenay, who succeeded his father, Robert, in his honors 
 and estates, on the 26th July, A.D. 1242. In this 
 inquisition, Cowic Priory is expressly stated to be 
 under his patronage. The religious of this house, who 
 were of the Benedictine Order, were a filiation from 
 Bee, as King Henry VI, informs us, in a letter ad- 
 dressed to Bishop Lacy ;§ and its Priors were regu- 
 larly appointed by the Abbots of that great monastery. 
 Of these Priors I have collected the following suc- 
 cession : — 
 
 il. D. 
 
 1. Thomas, who resigned in the year 1263 
 
 2. i^.|| de Cotot&ers,who resigned in 1275 
 
 * Arms— 3 Cows passant sable, collared Or, eyed Gules. 
 
 t This abbey was founded by the venerable Hellquin, on bis own estate, 
 at Bee, circiter A . 1 040. See an account of the abbey in Ducarel'i Ang^o 
 Norman Antiquities, p. 86,vid. III. Appendix. 
 
 % Article "Devonshire," p. 46; but on what authority ? 
 
 § See fol. 206 of Bp . Lacy 's Register. 
 
 11 Probably (he initial in the register for Nicholas. 
 
II' 
 
 A. D. 
 
 3. Adam de Bours, confirmed successor to the 
 above, on the 16th of AugHiSt, 1276 
 
 4. William de Porid, admitted Prior by Bishop 
 Bytten, between the years 1292 & 1307. 
 
 5. ^ustachiim opcurs Prior in the year 1317 
 
 6. Thomas de Leonibus resigned in 1334 
 
 7. Alexander de Roihis, confirmed Thomas's 
 successor on the 2M of August, 1334, and re- - 
 signed his office in 1352 
 
 8. Duratidus d^Sancto Stephana suodeeded, 
 and was Prior for 9 years. 
 
 9.. John de Ponte Episcopi, admitted Prior 
 on the 15th of May, A. D. 1361 
 
 10. Robert de GlanvilU, died Prior in 1382 
 
 H. William de Estrepeny succeeded Robert on 
 the 2d of August, and resigned 16 years after. 
 
 12. John de Bqurgeanyll', confirmed William's 
 «necessor. May 29th, ' 1398 
 
 13. Peter, who died Prior in the year I42D 
 14.* William ^0M«e6an/,admitted Prior Nov. 
 
 20, that year. 
 
 'N. B. He died early in 1447. 
 
 15. Robert de Rouen, alias Becdenne, con- 
 firmed his successor 22d April, 1447 
 
 N. B. This Prior resigned bis office on the 
 22d Nwv. i-1451 
 
 This being an alien priory, it was frequency seized 
 upon during the wars between England and France. 
 King Henry V. in the 8th year of has reign, leased it 
 out for a term of twenty years ; but on thie petition af 
 William Dounebant, the Prior, addressed to King 
 Henry VI. repre^nting the Impoverished state of hfs 
 convent, and the serious injmry that at bad recently 
 sustained, from the JnundaMons of the river Exe, his 
 Majesty was gyaeioagly pleased to restore to the 
 house its property and privjleges^ and exonerate it 
 from the annual .eh?urge of twenty-^four marks, which 
 had been payable to the Crown.J 
 
 Scarcely had the priory begun to breathe from the 
 
 * Dugdale mistakes, when he asserts that this priory was suppressed in 
 the Pa(rlia^l(enth^l.d at Leicester, A.©. 1,414. . 
 i Yjd. appendix (dj. 
 
 } via. fol. 206, Lacy's Reg. - ' 
 
 ,C 2 
 
\2 
 
 Sressure of misfortuoe, when it was visited by a 
 readful calamity; Bishop Lacy, in his letter to the 
 Barons of the Exchequer, dated March 19, A.D. 
 1444-6, (which is preserved in fol. 256, of his Regis- 
 ter,) states, thai it accidentally took fire on Palm 
 Sunday, that year, and that its loss, in buildings, 
 moveables, and cattle, was computed at £177 12s. 4d. 
 a very considerable sum in those days- 
 It seems that the convent could not recover itself 
 from this misfortune ; and probaJ^Iy the distressed 
 state of the times and the increasing difficulty of 
 procuring religious subjects from the mother-house, 
 at Bee, induced the Prior, Robert de Rouen, to resign 
 his office, and to surrender his convent. His deed of 
 resignation and surrender was made at Eton College, 
 in the Provost's chambers, on the 23d day of Nov. 
 1461.* In adopting this measure, he might have 
 been influenced by the advice of Thomas, Earl of 
 Dtevon, the patron of Cowyk, who had proved him- 
 self a generous benefactor to the new college of 
 Eton, then recently founded by King Henry VI. 
 
 On the final resignation by Robert de Rouen, 
 Henry VI. applied the revenues of this priory and its 
 right of patronage to Eton College ; but, thirteen years 
 after. King Edward IV. transferred this donation to 
 his favourite abbey of Tavistock. Until the general 
 dissolution of religious houses, it continued in the 
 possession of this great abbey, when it was granted 
 to John Lord Russell, 4th July, 31, Henry Vlll.t 
 
 After its union with Tavistock, I apprehend that a 
 few Monks were settled in the house, not under the 
 government of ^.perpetual Prior, as formerly, but of 
 a Superior, that was removeable at the discretion of 
 the Abbot. Browne Willis, in p. 7. of the appenllix 
 to vol. 2. of his History of Abbies, asserts indeed, that 
 "John Carter was last Prior to Cowic, a cell to Tavi- 
 stock ;" but the registers of the See of Exeter are per- 
 fectly silent as to the induction of any Priors subse- 
 quent to Robert of Rouen. — In Pope Leo X. Bull, 
 
 • Vid. Append, (d). 
 
 t Francis, Earl of Bedford, and Willism Lord Russell, bis sou and heir 
 apparent, sold much of their property in St. Thomas's parish, comprising 
 Bsrley and Franklyn, about the year 1641. 
 
13 
 
 addressed to the Abbot of Tavistock, dated Sept. 14, 
 A.D. 1517, the priory of Cowyk, as parcel of the 
 possession of the said abbey, is expressly exempted 
 from the jurisdiction, visitation and superiority of 
 the Diocesan and Metropolitan, and is taken under 
 the immediate possession of the Holy See. Vid. fol. 
 ^1. vol. 2. Reg. Bp. Veysey. 
 
 ' Many of the Courtenay family chose the conventual 
 church of St. Andrew for their place of interment. 
 Hugh Lord Courtenay, Baron of Oakhamptou, who 
 died in 1291, was buried here; as also Hugh Lord 
 Courtenay, who died in 1340 -Vid. Cleaveland's Hist, 
 of the Courtenays. Dugdale,p. 791. vol. 1. Monast. 
 makes mention of Agnes Courtenay, Countess of 
 Devon, who died at Tiverton on the 11th of June, 
 A. D. 1340, and was solemnly interred at Cowyk, on 
 the 27th of the same month. 
 
 It is singular, that the scite of this priory can no 
 longer be traced with any degree of saitisfaction. It is 
 clear, however, from Bishop Stafford 's Register, (2. vol. 
 p. 287) that it was situated at the further extremity of 
 St. Thomas' parish, in ultimis finibus parochie ; and 
 again," that it must have stood on the low grounds 
 bordering on the Exe : as it appears from the mandate 
 already mentioned of King Henry VI. that it was ex- 
 posed to the inundations of this river, and had suf- 
 fered considerable damage in consequence.* 
 
 From fol. 22. of Bishop Bronescombe's Register, we 
 learn, that in Oct. 1261, a Vicar was first appointed to 
 take charge of the parishioners of Cowic. The Prior 
 was then directed -to provide the Vicar with a suitable 
 dwelling-house, and to pay him an annual stipend 
 of five marks of silver, at the four principal terms 
 of the year. Their parochial chapel, dedicated to 
 St. Thomas,t the Archbishop of Canterbtiry, and 
 dependent on the conventual church of St. Atidrew, 
 was situated at the extremity of Exeter bridge — 
 
 * " Magna pars possessionum prioratfis cuidam magne Riparie vocate 
 Exe conricina existit uc de ingeotibus fluctibus qui ibidem aonis uuperimii 
 evenerunt extitit inundala : ac Kcclesia (fe'Claustrutn Frioratfls maximaque 
 pars domorum illius loci, adeo debilia & putridaexistuut, quod magna pars 
 inde ad terram verosimiliter est casura, nisi eustulius non modicis cioius 
 adjuvetur cfe relevetiir." 
 
 t See Bp.Stofford's Reg. vol. 2, p. 28T, 
 
 c 3 
 
14 
 
 « ad finem Pontis eivitatis Exon super ripaiyt 
 flummis de Exe." To this chapel all parochial pri- 
 vileges were annexed, excepting the right oif burial, 
 " sef ultura duntaxat excepts ;" the place of inter- 
 ment for the parish feeiag the cemitery oif St. 
 Michael's Chapel, situated without the priory gate, 
 " in Cemiterio Caipelle Sei Miffihaelis extra Portam 
 PrJoratAs de Cowyk situato." This chapel of St. 
 Thomas had recently been swept away by an inun- 
 dation of the river Exe, " vi fluminis de Exe nupcr 
 funditus eversa «fe irreeuperabiliter collapsa." In con- 
 sequence of this calamity, the Prior, John de Bour- 
 geanyll, gave a spot of ground, commonly called 
 Pyryhay, or Pirihay, sufficiently large for a church 
 and a cemitery. This spot is described as being at a 
 considerable distance from the river, " A dicto flumine 
 & ejus inundatione long^ distante ;" and as lying in 
 the centre of the parish ; and " In medio p&rochie 
 situata." By the joint exertions of the Prior and of 
 the parishioners, fuuds sufficient for the erection of 
 the present parish church were collected ; and on the 
 4th Oct. A. D. 1412, Bishop Stafford consecrated this 
 sacred edifice ; and, on the following day, the burial 
 ground, under the title of St. Thomas the Martyr. 
 In the grant to Lord Russell, A. D. 1540, it is styled 
 « Paroehia Thome Bekket." 
 
 In the Taxatio Bonorum Ecclesiasticorum in Dio- 
 cesi Exon, mentioned in the preceding article, I ob- 
 serve the f9llowing items i — 
 
 £, a. d~ 
 Prior de Cowyke habet Manerinm de Cris- 
 
 tenestowe val 6 18 8 
 
 Maneria de Cowyke & Exwyke 9 3 
 
 In ParochilL de Innardesley CQuare Inward- 
 
 leighe) de redd T 6 
 
 De ecclesia de Methe 2 
 
 De portione Viearie de Ochampton* 13 4 
 
 Bp. Grandisson returned the following account of 
 the property of Cowic Priory, to King Edward III, 
 A. D. 1366 :— 
 
 nei 
 
 • Oakliamplon churcli was eonsf crated by Bp. Broneseonibe, July 81 
 
15 
 
 Prior de Cowyk optinet ecclesiam de 
 
 Cowyk cum capellA' Sci Thome val 
 
 per annum '. Xllmarcarum 
 
 Idem optinet de Sprayton val per an . . . Cs 
 Idem optinet ecclA de Chrystowe val 
 
 pran X marc. 
 
 Idem optinet ecclh de Ochampton val 
 
 pr an XII lib. 
 
 Idem pereipitportionem val annuatim 
 
 ab eeclA de Sampford Courtenay ... Vs 
 Idem percipit pensionem annuam de 
 
 Eccl& de Whymple Courtenay ... II marc 
 
 Cleaveland, in his history above quoted, informs 
 us, p. 135, that the chapels of Halstoek, Kenne and 
 Stieklepatb, were also subject to the priory of Cosvic. 
 
16 
 
 St. CATHARINE'S PRIORY, 
 
 AT POLSLO.* 
 
 J. HE Benedictine nunnery of Polslo was founded 
 in honor of St. Catharine, by William Lord Brewer, 
 the father and founder of the religious houses of Tor 
 and Dunkeswell. Leland asserts, in his Collectanea, 
 that this nobleman was uncle, by his mother's side,. 
 (Avunculus) to King John. Matthew of Paris, (ia 
 Maj. Hist. Angl.) informs us, that he was a great 
 counsellor of state during the reigns of Richard I. 
 and of John ; and that William Brewer, who was 
 consecrated Bishop of Exeter, 1224, was a grandson 
 of his (nepos). The sameness of the name has in- 
 duced several writers to ascribe the honor of this 
 foundation to the Bishop. It is not unlikely that he 
 was a great benefactor. 
 
 The Bishops Of Exteter were the patrons of this 
 convent, and they appear to have discharged their 
 trust with great zeal and tenderness. The commu- 
 nity comprehended about sixteen persons at least ; the 
 names of so many appear at the election of the 
 Priore-ss Juliana de Bruton, A. D. 1347. As the con- 
 vent was poor, 1 find it was generally exempted from 
 paying the King's tenths ; t and yet, notwithstanding 
 their poverty. Queen Philippa wished to charge them 
 with the maintenance of Jane Turbeville, a secular 
 lady. In the answer of the convent, to be seen in 
 
 • Bore Gules a sword between three Catharine wheels Argt. 
 t The nunneries of Cornwood and Canonlegh, as also St. John's HospKBl 
 in Exeter, were generally exempted. 
 
 i It- 
 
17 
 
 the appetrdix (<?") they represent to her Majesty, that 
 it would be a dreadf-ul hardship to support others, 
 when their finances were barely sufficient to afford 
 themselves the common necessaries of life. However, 
 the resources of. the community were considerably 
 improved and augmented before the dissolution of 
 religious houses. 
 
 From the registers so often quoted, and from other 
 authentic documents, I am enabled to offer the reader 
 the following succession af the Prioresses : — 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1. Margaret de Morchard, instituted on the 
 25th of Dec. . 1267 
 
 Bishop Bronescombe dispensed with the 
 delectus natalium quern patiebatur. 
 
 2. Margaret de Syndon, elected 26th June, 1308 
 She died Prioress 26th June, 1321 
 
 3. Marcella Bloyhon succeeded her in the 
 following July. 
 
 4. Margaret de Wydepole, who died on the 
 14th of April, 1347 
 
 6. Juliana de BrutonsucceeAeiSi'ixt iulYi 1347 
 
 6. Christina de Seton, who died June 4, 1404 
 
 7. Mathildis Talbot, confirmed as her suc- 
 cessor on the 3d of the following July. 
 
 She died Prioress, Dec. 16, , 1438 
 
 N. B. Bishop Lacy, 17. May, 1439, granted 
 an indulgence of forty days to all such as 
 should say a Pater & Ave, for the repose of the 
 soul of this Prioress and the souls of all the 
 faithful departed. 
 
 8. Isabella Burghe, admitted Prioress on the 
 3d of the following January. 
 
 9. Isabella Trewironk, who died in Jan. 1608-9 
 
 10. Cecilia Millaton, or Millington, suc- 
 ceeded Feb. lOth, of the same year. 
 
 She died early in 1530 
 
 N. B. After a longand expensive suit, between 
 this Prioress and the Vicar of Budleigh, Bishop 
 Oldham decided, on the 30th Dec. 1513, that 
 the Vicar and his successors should pay 40s. 
 per ann. to the convent, instead of tithes. Vid. 
 fol. 49. Reg. ad finem. 
 
18 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1|. Margaret Trowe succeeded 13th April, 1630 
 12. Eleanor Si/dnem, who surrendered her 
 
 convent to Henry VIII. on 19th Feb. 1538. Vid. 
 
 p. 65, vol. 2. Brovene Willis' Hist, of Abbies. 
 
 Pensions, granted May 1, Anno 31, Henrici 8'. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 To Eleanor Sydnam, the Prioress 30 
 
 Agnes Carewe, a Nun 5 6 8 
 
 Jane Heton, do 4 
 
 .laneKelleye 4 
 
 Elizabeth Bennett 4 
 
 Avys Worlhie 4 
 
 Ivota Creed 4 
 
 Awstys Rnswyl 4 
 
 Thomasine Carewe 4 
 
 Radegnndes TyUeye 3 6 8 
 
 Total 66 13 4 
 
 At the Dissolution, the revenues 
 
 of Poislo amounted, according 
 
 toDugdale, to £164 8 li pr. an. 
 
 According to Speed 170 2 3 
 
 The soite of this convent was granted , 1 . Feb. 32. 
 Hen. ^'111. to Sir George Caretye, and Mary, his 
 wife, for the term of their natural lives. Vid. (f) 
 append. 
 
 In the 3d year of Edward VI. the Crown disposed 
 of this estate to John, £arl of Warwick. It after- 
 wards passed into the hands of the .Cbampernoun 
 family ; then, by exchange, into the Ailworths, and is 
 now the property of the Parkers, of Whiteway. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Priorissa de Poislo apud Poislo tax ad 12 
 
 De redd ibidem & perquis 16 
 
 Apud Cockespute 16 
 
 Apnd Berstok 10 
 
 Apud Donewaldesham iSc Bradeford de redd 13 4 
 
 Apnd Sigadou &, Lynador & Hechfeld 15 
 
 Apud Cloxton de redd & perquis...., 2 6 8 
 
 Itom ibidem que (axatur ad 6 
 
 In Civilale Exon do redd 2 
 
19 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Pefpipit in eocla de Aserton(AyshtoQ) 15 
 
 in feccla de Esse-waat 13 4 
 
 This community, as it appears from many leases that 
 I have seen,possessed the whole manor of Polslo. . In 
 the parish of Heavitree they had some property> 
 styled Dyere Lands, Frog-Marshe, and Botham. In 
 Clyst tb^y had a messuage, called Crosse Park. In 
 Piiyhembry they possessed the manor of Cockyspitt ; 
 and in Exeter they had certain tenements adjoining 
 the Guildhall. 
 
 In a lease, bearing date 1. Oct. W. Hen. VIII. 
 I obseirve the Prioress Cecilia, " for the ffyne of 
 ^10 sterling, and one peace of Dowlasse," leased 
 out to Henry Hamlyn, " Cytesen and Merchaunte 
 of the Cyf ye of Excett," two meadows in the barton 
 of Polslo, one called Southwood, and the other 
 the Horse Mede "lying in the west part of the Grett 
 mede of the convent." 
 
 In another lease, mention is inade of a barn lately 
 built near our lady's chapel of Mynchin-Lake, (the 
 name of the stream running by Polslo,) " juxta ca- 
 pellam Beate Marie de Mynchinlake." 
 
 Dr. Tanner, in his Notitia Monastica, makes men- 
 tion of a nunnery of St. Catharine, near Exeter, 
 which he distinguishes from the convent at Polslo; 
 and he adds, that Sir William Tracy was a consider- 
 able benefactor to it. 
 
 For the following reasons, I am led to conclude 
 that this nunnery, and the one at Polslo, are pre- 
 cisely the same convent. 1st. The Patron Saint is 
 the same in both cases, and indeed the_ convent at 
 Polslo is generally styled the house or priory of St. 
 Catharine. — 2nd. Both are acknowledged to be in the 
 immediate vicinity of Exeter / — 3d. The registers of 
 the See of Exeter are perfectly silent as to the ex- 
 istence of any female community in the neighbour- 
 hood, besides the one at Polslo. If any other had 
 existed, surely some notice would have been taken 
 
 * See the Taxatio above quoted. 
 
20 
 
 of the election or institution of the Prioress, in the 
 episcopal records — some benefaction would occur 
 in the numerous wills which are, there transpribed. 
 In some of these wills, not only every religious 
 foundation in Exeter and its neighbourhood, but 
 almost every charitable institution in the county of 
 Devon is specified and remembered ; and what motive 
 can be assigned for omitting this ? With respect to 
 Sir William Tracy's benefactions, I answer, that as 
 Polslo Nunnery was founded in the reign of Henryll. 
 even he may have befriended it in its infancy ; for 
 he did not die until the year 1174. However, it is 
 not improbable, that it was another member of that 
 powerful family, but of the same name, who has the 
 merit of being the benefactor. 
 
 I may here observe, that confusion of names of 
 places is not uncommon in the works of writers who 
 reside at a distance, or •who cannot procure access 
 to the records and papers which illustrate local his- 
 tories. For example, the priory of St. Nicholas has 
 been divided into a cell and an hospital, and again 
 has been confounded with St. Andrews, at Cowio. 
 Cowicke and Cuick have been made two distinct 
 foundations. St. John's Hospital, and the Grey 
 Friars, have been mistaken for the same establish- 
 ment. See Speed, Stevens, and other writers. 
 
2\ 
 
 St. JAMES'S PRIOllY, 
 
 NEAR EXETER. 
 
 Bi 
 
 lALDWlN de RIVERS founded this priory of 
 St. James, sometimes called Sti Jacob! de Mariseo, 
 and made it dependent on the great Cluniac* monas- 
 tery of St. Martin in the Fields, near Paris, A.D. 1 146. 
 Thirteen years after, Robert Warlewast, Bishop of 
 Exeter, consecrated the cemitery adjoining the con- 
 ventual church. 
 
 In a memorandumt of Nicholas Braybrooke, libra- 
 rian to Bishop Thomas By tten, mention is made of a 
 collection of documents relating to this Priory, and 
 formerly belonging to that bishop. A catalogue of 
 the manuscripts and charters that were found in the 
 treasury of the Exeter Cathedral, in the year 1267, is 
 given in Bishop Bronescombe's Register. One of these 
 charters was entitled " Confirmatio Theobaldi Can- 
 tuarie Archiepiscopi de CapellA Monachorum Sancti 
 Jacobi." 
 
 The community was sm^ll, consisting of a Prior 
 and four Monks. As the convent depended on a 
 foreign house, its revenues were often seized by the 
 Crown, " occasione guerre," during the wars between 
 England and France. 
 
 The following list of Priors is the best I can offer 
 to the reader. 
 
 A. D. 
 1. w4/Mred! occurs Prior Anno 1167 
 
 2r John, admitted January 6, 1276-7 
 
 * The great monastery of Cluni, in the diocese of Slajon, was founded by 
 William, the pious Duke of Aquitain, A. D. 910. 
 t See the beginning of Bp. Bronescombe's Kegiater. 
 
23 
 
 A. D. 
 
 3. Peler de Segnt, who died late in 1304 
 
 4. Si^hen succeeded in Nov. that year. 
 
 5. John de Nanlolio, admitted 1st August, 1314 
 
 6. fVilliam de Bytedene. 
 
 N. B. He was a man totally unfit for his office. 
 Bishop Grandisson describes his government as 
 fatimm & incautum, «& styles him, vagabundus «& 
 nullibi residens. On the Sth May, 1334, this Bp. 
 excommunicated hm for refusing to appear be- 
 fore his commissioners ; but absolved him four 
 mouths after. 
 
 7. John occurs Prior in 1 341 
 
 8. /oAn Xiesper, instituted in November 1349 
 
 9. John de Worcester, &A\n\iie A 10th June, 1363 
 
 10. John Greteyte succeeded 12th October, 1370 
 N. B. He was a religious of Montacute Abbey, 
 
 in Somersetshire. His. singular meritts recom- 
 mended him to Bishop Brautyngbam, who col- 
 lated him to this vacant. Priory, Vjd. fol. %. vol. 
 1. Beg. 
 
 11. Balph Lejfe succeeded Feb. SO, 1374 
 iS. J<dm Tbeiford, admitted in Oct. 1399 
 1.3. Auguetmus. 
 
 14. Thomas Dene was Prior in 1428 
 
 and I believe was the last that filled that office. 
 
 In the reign of Heary VI. this priory was suppressed, 
 and its estates were 'granted to his new College, at 
 Cambridge. Though endowed, by the founders, 
 with the lands at Coteleg, with half of the fishery at 
 Topsham and some lands near Exeter, and soon 
 after the church of Tiverton ;* yet the convent was 
 far from being rich. 
 
 The suite of this ancient priory is now emphatically- 
 called the Old Abbey,- but hardly a vestige remains 
 to mark its situation. 
 
 Nunc intra mures Pastoris buocina lenti 
 
 Cantat & in vestris ossibus arva metent. 
 
 - * Tbis church was subsequently divided into tlip three pottious or {irvbends, 
 willed CUre, Piit, and Tydicombe. At what precise time tbis division toiik 
 I'lnce, I am yet to learn; but llie registers of the See of Exeter abundantly 
 prove, that the Courtcnny family presented to these Prjtiends ns early as 
 the middle of the thirteenth century, nearly an liunnred years before 
 Weslcoto, Risdon, and Cleaveland, suppose them to have existed. From a 
 passage in fol. J 4, of Bp. Bronesoombe'."! Register, ad imum, I imagined 
 that Tydicombe portion was originaU\ assigned to St. James." Friory. 
 
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 Propert. 4. 11. 
 In the Taxatio I read as follows : — 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Apud Cowle : 13 4 
 
 In Civitate Exon de redd 4 
 
 Apud Sanctum Jacobum 3 
 
 Apud Cothelegh de redd I 
 
 Apud Donnesford 3 
 
 In parrochiA de Holecombe de redd 15 
 
 In Bishop Brantyng^bam's Register is the following 
 memorandum : — " Radulfus Legh Prior Sci Jaeobi 
 optinet unam portionem in EcelesiA de Tiverton val. 
 pr. annum Xtib." 
 
 Ex fol. 76. Reg. Walteri Bronescombe. 
 
 " In festo Epiphanie Anno 1276 apud Peynton, 
 Dnus Epus admisit fratrem Johem Monaehum ad 
 Prioralum Sci Jaeobi juxta Exon vacantem, ad pre- 
 sentationem Religiosorum viroru Prioris & ConventAs 
 Sci Martini de Campis, Parisiis, sub hAc formA. 
 
 Reverendo in Xto Patri ac Domino Dei grk Exon 
 Epo, frater Petrus Prior humilis Sci Martini de Cam- 
 pis, Parisiis, totusque ejusdem loci Conventus, salu- 
 tem & orationes ad Dnum humiles & devotas. 
 
 Ad Prioratum nostrum Sci Jaeobi juxta Exon 
 nunc vacantem, fratrem lohem monaehum nostrum, 
 vobis latorem presencium presentamus, Paternitatem 
 vestram rogantes, quatenus prefatnm lohem, ad re- 
 gimen predieti Prioratfls admittere & ipsum in eodem 
 instituere velitis & eidem in negoeiis predict! PrioratAs 
 agendis, si placet, consilium & auxilium impendatis, 
 Valeat bene & diu Vestra Paiternitas Reverenda. 
 Datum A.D. 1276, Die DominicA in Vigilid Sci Mat- 
 thei Aplj." 
 
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 CX)LLEGIATE CHURCH, 
 
 AT CREDITON.' 
 
 X HE church of the Holy Cross, atCrediton, though 
 deprived of its brightest gem, by the removal of the 
 pontifical dignity, A. D. 1060, to the city of Exeter, 
 was ever regarded as the first in rank among the 
 collegiate churches in the diocese. For a consider- 
 able time she appeared to emulate the magnificent 
 establishment of her more favoured sister, the cathe« 
 dral of Exeter ; she could shew her eighteen Canons, 
 and her eighteen Vicars — slie was rich in relicks — she 
 was distinguished with many privileges by the See Apos- 
 tolic — and the diocesans themselves loved to dwell 
 in her bosom, and to give her frequent proofs of their 
 affectionate veneration. But every thing sublunary has 
 its -revolutions By degrees, the church of the Holy 
 Cross, at Crediton, was neglected ; her revenues were 
 reduced, and she saw herself necessitated to move in 
 a more contracted sphere, and to diminish the splen- 
 dour of divine worship. 
 
 Bishop Bronescombe, t whose very soul was in- 
 flamed with the noble ambition of promoting the 
 
 • I have seen «n impression of the common seal of this church, appen- 
 dant to a deed for alienating the Prebend of Hempstill. The deed is dated 
 from the chapter-house of Crediton, 20th August, 26 Henrj-VlII. Unfortu- 
 nately most of the inscription was lost, or defaced ; but the seal was circu- 
 lar, and bore a Calvary Cross, with two angels above, and two at tlie feet, 
 in an attitude of veneration. 
 
 t This venerable Bishop istaxed by Hoker, Godwin, and others, with liaving 
 fraudulently obtained the patronage of Clist Fomeson parish, now called 
 Sowton; but a document in the Bishop's Register victoriously refutes this 
 inconsiderate accusation. It demonstrates that a fair and legal exchange of 
 lands took place between the Prior and the Bi5ihop— that the latter paid 
 down twenty pounds of silver, and bound himseJf to pny a yearly acknow- 
 ledgment ut Midsummer. 
 
25 
 
 greater glory of the Almiglity, was moved with com- 
 passion at the sight of her fallen greatness, and he 
 was determined to reinstate her : nor did he desist 
 from his purpose, until he had restored to her the six 
 Canons and the six VicarS, which were wanting 
 to complete her ancient establishment. During his 
 episcopate, the churches of Coleridge, Eglosheil and 
 Lanante, were approptiated to this collegiate church. 
 See'fol. 42. 61-52 of Ws Register. 
 
 A singular event is recorded in fol. 107. of Bishop 
 Stapeldon's. Register, which must have contributed to 
 increase the public veneration towards the church of 
 Crediton. A person Called Thomas Orey, a fuller by 
 trade, and who had the misfortune of ;being totally 
 blind, arrived at Crediton from Keyneshatti, in the» 
 diocese of Bath, on Wedi/esday befor^the Feast of 
 St. Peter ad Vineula, (Aug. 1.) in the year 1315. On 
 ihe above-mentioned feast. Bishop Stapeldon cele- 
 brated solemn mass in the collegiate church. Between 
 the epistle and the gospel, Thomas Orey, who was 
 intent at his prayers before the altar of St. Nicholas, 
 in the said church, was instantaneously restored to 
 sight. After mass, the miracle was ireported to the 
 Bishop, who prudently observes, " de ts^IibuS nimis 
 facile credi non debebit ;" and he ^ave orders for the 
 man .to remain in the church, until he should be 
 ready to examine him. Accordingly, he made him 
 appear before him, in the adjoining chapeil of our 
 Lady, and in the presence of several witnesses, Thomas 
 tooli his oath on the holy gospels, and deposed, that 
 after dinner, on Thursday in the last Easter week, he 
 fell asleep, near the door of his dwelling-house, at 
 Keynesham, in good health, and in the doinpiete en- 
 joyment of sight; that he awoke totally blind; 
 and from that time had not been able to distitjguish a 
 single object. Being asked by the Bishop, on what 
 finger, and on what hand, he wore his episcopal ring, 
 and many other questions, he returned, in every 
 instance, the clearest and most satisfactory answers. 
 Several persons, who were his neighbours at Key- 
 nesham, bore testimony to his blindness. Being 
 asked how he came to think of coming to Crediton, 
 he replied, he had dreamt, that, if he should visit tfeft- 
 
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26 
 
 church of the Holy Cross there, he should cer- 
 tainly recover his sight. His wife being questioned 
 «s to the truth of her husband's assertions, confirmed 
 them upon oath. The Bishop proceeded to examine 
 some inhabitants of Crediton, who had seen Thomas 
 Orey since his arrival, and they declared, that they 
 entertained no doubt of his former blindness. On 
 this evidence, the Bishop considered himself justified 
 in ordering a solemn thanksgiving to Almighty God, 
 for this manifestation of his mercy and power ; and 
 it was immediately performed with the accustomed 
 ceremonies. 
 
 In fol. 9. vol. 2. of Grandisson's Register, I meet 
 with the following ordinance of that zealous and 
 jnunificent Prelate. Observing, as he says, that the 
 service of the»choir was not performed with suitable 
 dignity and solemnity in this collegiate charch, he 
 appointed four boys, vocem puerilem habentes, to 
 sing in surplices, during the celebration of the divine 
 office ; as also four young clerks, vooem virilem 
 habentes, but who were not to be in Priest's orders. 
 Of these latter, one was to have charge of the 
 sacristy, books and ornaments, under the controul of 
 the treasurer ; another was to have the charge of the 
 bells ; a third was to be stationed near the high altar, 
 to look after the oblations, and- to see that " the 
 Canons were not defrauded of their wax, or the 
 Vicars of their money ;" and the fourth was to in- 
 struct the children in singing, and to inspect their 
 morals. For the support of these eight choristers, 
 the following pensions were to be collected at Easter 
 and Michaelmas, in equal portions : — 
 
 From the Precentor 16s. 
 
 From each of the Prebends, called de la Pole, 
 
 Hempstill, and Stowford I4s. 
 
 From each of the Prebends, called Aire, Rigge, 
 
 and Wodelonde I2s. 
 
 From Carswell, Coombe,* and la Crosse lOs. 
 
 From Cridie, and Westsanford 8s. 
 
 From the six bursal Prebends, or those founded 
 
 or restored by Bishop Bronescombe 2s. 
 
 * This Prebend must be the sume as Prtiateombe, tbitt so often occurs io 
 the registers. 
 
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 I may liere observe, that the three principal digni- 
 taries of the ohtiYch of the Holy Cross, were 
 
 ■I. The Precentor. He had the direction of the 
 choir service. He was the head of the chapter, and 
 to him, as such, most of the episcopal mandates are 
 addressed.* An estate, or prebend, called Wool- 
 grove, was attached to this dignity. 
 
 2. The Treasurer, who had the charge of the 
 fabric, and of every thing within the charch. Cars- 
 well Prebend was annexed to his office. If the 
 Treasurer resigned, he was bound to pay twenty shil- 
 lings, ad fabricam ecelesie. 
 
 3. The Dean, who was invariably the Vicarius 
 Perpetuus quihabet totius parochie de Crediton curam 
 anima:rum — fol. 30-31. vol. 2. Regist. Veysey. Bishop 
 Grandisson, fol. 218. vol. 1. Regist. describes him as 
 a rural Dean. In consequence of the laborious duty 
 of attending to the spiritual concerns of sjo large a 
 parish, the Dean was exempted from the obligation 
 of assisting at the regular office of the choir, except 
 on particular occasions. For his better support, and 
 to enable him to keep hospitality, he had the emolu- 
 ments arising from two stalls in the choir, and a fur- 
 ther yearly allowance of twenty-five shillings and four- 
 yence. — Vid. fol. 9. vol. 2. Regist. Grandisson. And 
 yet his revenue was inferior to that of the Precentor ; 
 for, in fol. 62. vol. 3. of Lacy's Regist. the precentor- 
 ship is valued at nine marks, and the deanery at 
 eight marks. 
 
 As far as I can collect, the nave of this collegiate 
 church was reserved for the use of the parishioners, 
 the choir being appropriated to the members of the 
 college. 
 
 The funds of the church, though very consider- 
 able, (for they amounted, at the Dissolution, to £3g2, 
 pr. an.) were insufficient to keep the fabric in proper 
 repair. In the will of William Langton, (who is 
 
 * In certain churches, both here and abroad, the Precentor headed the 
 Chapter. As an instance in this country, we may cite the cathedral church 
 of St. JDavid, in Wales : as an example 'in foreign countries, we may men- 
 tion the church of Palermo, in Sicily. " Cantoriae dignitas prim.a est post 
 Pontiflcatum— Primus fert suffragium in Capitulo, quod ipse cogit cum 
 libuerjt.— See the learned worlc of Pirro, entitled Notitise. Siciliensium 
 £cclesiariim, p. 2T4. 
 
 d2 
 
88 
 
 buried in the ^Jagdalejtie Chapel of Exeter Cathedral,) 
 preserved in Bishop Stafford's Registejr, and which 
 is dated January ^9, A. D. 1413-4, I observe a consi- 
 derable legacy towariis the repair of fhe n^ve, which 
 was then in a state of ruin, " navis que jam fer^ ad 
 terram est prosti'ata." The dimensions of the ancien t 
 church are given in William of Worcester's Survey, 
 temp. Hen. VI.— See 2. B. Willis' Hist, of Abbies, 
 p. .336. 
 
 " Longitudo Ecclesiee CoUegjj de Kir;toD cum Ca- 
 peJlA Beatae Mariae contjnet 120 de steppys- meis 
 (N. B. One of his steps was two feet). Latitudp 
 EJcolesise cum elis & brachiis dictse Eccljesiae 60 steppys 
 de me4 mensurA. Latitude Navis Ecclesise cum 
 duabus ells coptinet 32 stpppys. Jte;m sunt 6 Archus 
 in Nayi Ecclesise: Itejn Navis Ecclesise continet 
 circa 14 de Steppys meis." 
 
 The present fabric must haye been erected but a 
 very shott" time previous to the dissolution of the 
 college : for Lelan4 tells us, that.it bore no marks of 
 antiqujly. He should have excepted, however, the 
 south porches and the Lady Chapel. 
 
 In the appendix will be given the form of the Pre- 
 centor's and Vicar's path; as also an inventory of 
 the church ornaments, taken in May, 1624. (g) 
 
 Richard Eriijton, Precentor, Walter Mugg and 
 George Mason, members of the college, subscribed to 
 the supremacy of the King, July 23, A. D. 1534. 
 
 In the Episcopal Registers, frequent mention is 
 made of the Hospital of St. Lawrence, at Crediton. 
 The place of Gustos or Warden of the establishmej^t 
 was absolutely at the Bishop's disposal. Most 
 generally it was given to some Monk; very fre- 
 quently tQ a member of the Holy Trinity House, at 
 Hondeslpwe, in the London diocese. Near the cha- 
 pel of St. Lawrence, a Seclusorium, or- place pf retire- 
 ment for a single Recluse,* was fpunded by Bishop 
 Brewer, A. D. 1243, yid. Cartam fundationis, at the 
 end of Bronescombe's Register. 
 
 * Instances of Rcclnses residing near churches and chapels, frequentljr 
 occur in the registers. 1 meet with persons following this mode of living in 
 St Leonard's Ghuroh-yard, Exeter ; near St. Agnes' Chapel, in Pilton 
 Church-yard ; near our Saviour's Chapel on Ottery Bridge ; at Dodbrook ; 
 at Bodmin ; and other places. 
 
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 King Edward VI. by letters patent, dated 2 April, 
 in the 1st year of his reign, erected and constituted a 
 corporation at Crediton, of twelve persons (three of 
 whom were always to be inhabitants of Sandford 
 Hamlet) by the name of " The twelve governors of the 
 hereditaments and goods of the church of Crediton." 
 To this corporation, the King granted the parish 
 church of Crediton ; the chapel of St. Swithin in 
 Sandford ; and the church of Exitiinster ; of all 
 which, the extended yearly value was £62 5s. 4d. 
 His Majesty was further pleased to found and esta- 
 Wish a free grammar school in the parishytd be called 
 " The Kyng's newe Gramer Scole of Credyton."— 
 The nomination of the school- master and of the 
 Vicars of Crediton and Exminster, was left to the 
 absolute will and discretibn of the Corporation. 
 
 From a fact stated in these letters patent, I think 
 it not improbable that Henry VIII. had intended to , 
 demolish this collegiate church, for the salce of 
 the materials, as he did so many others ; but that he 
 was diverted from this intention by the sum of £200, 
 Which King Edward VI. acknowledges had been 
 faithfully paid to his father by the inhabitants and 
 parishioners of Crediton.* 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, by letters patent, dated 5th July, 
 2nd year of her reign, enlarged h6r brother's grant, 
 by making over to the Corporation the tithes and 
 lands formerly belonging to St. Lawrence's Hospital 
 already mentioned ; the tithes formerly belonging to 
 the twelve Prebends, and the tithes of Ci^diton and 
 Sandford, once appertaining to the college : re- 
 serving to herself and successors the yearly rent 
 of ^100. She also considerably' augmented the 
 salaries of the schoolmaster, and of the incumbents 
 of the churches already mentioned; 
 
 • Amongst many phurches redeemed frott^ des^\iction,.d(^rmg tJiis Teigo 
 of sacrilege and terror; we may instance St. Alban's, wliich the to.Tnsmen 
 purchased for ^4001. 
 
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PLYMPTON PRIORY* 
 
 J. HE original beginning of thi^ Prrorie (says 
 Leland, vol. 3. Itinerary, p. 35.) was after this Fas- 
 eion. One William Warewist, Bishop of Excester, 
 displeasid with the Chanons or Prebendaries of a 
 Fre Chapelle of the foundation of the Saxon Kings, 
 because they wold not leve theyr Concubines, found 
 meanes to dissolve their College, wherein was a Dean 
 or Provost, and four Prebendaries, with other minis- 
 ters. Then he set up at Plynrpton a Priorie of 
 Canons Regular, and after was there buried in the 
 Chapitre house. Diverse Noblemen gave after hands 
 to this priorie, among whom was Walterus de Valle 
 Torta, Lord of Tremerton in Cornewal, and as sum 
 say of Totenes. He gave onto Plympton Priorie the 
 isle of St. Nicholas cum cuniculis conteyning a two 
 acres of ground or more, and lying at the mouthes 
 of Tamar and Plym ryvers." So far Leland. 
 
 Plympton priory, of the order of Canons Regular 
 of St. AugOstine, was dedicated to the apostles Peter 
 and Paul. It was certainly the richest monastery in 
 the county o^ Devon. A catalogue of its Priors is 
 given in the 2nd vol. of B. Willis' Hist, of Abbies. 
 Gf its accuracy, until the middle of the thirteenth 
 century, I am not competent to judge; but from 
 that period, till the dissolution of the house, I know 
 it to be very lame and imperfect. The registers of 
 tbe Bishops of Exeter will furnish a much better guide. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1. 'Ralph, appointed the first Prior 1121 
 
 • Bore the arms of the See of Exeter, from iU founder. Bishop William 
 Warlewast. 
 
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 A. D. 
 
 2. GFe^ry, elected in . 1128 
 N. B. Whilst he was Prior, the chapel of our 
 
 Lady wkhin the Castle of Exeter, with its four 
 Prebends, was granted by William Avenel, to 
 Plympton monastery. See the charter, p. 9. 
 vol. 2. of the Monastieon. 
 
 3. fiecAard succeeded in 1160 
 
 4. JoA», elected as his successor In 1169 
 
 5. iMTar/in followed, in 1176 
 N. B. He rebuilt the priory church from the 
 
 ground, which continued in being, as Leland 
 tells us, until the dissolution of the house. 
 
 6. John, admitted Prior in 1188 
 
 7. Robert Isblincton succeeded in 1202 
 
 8. .4n//io«y, appointed as his successor in 1214" 
 
 9. Richard de Brugis followed in 1225 
 10 Robert de Molton in 1236 
 
 11. Baldvein, elected in 1251 
 
 12. Robert de Blundon, confirmed as Bald- 
 win's successor on the Feast of all Saints, Nov. 1, 1263 
 by Bishop Bronescombe. 
 
 J 3. Peter de Sancto Antonio succeeded in 1273 
 
 14. Richard de Tregoney, elecieA in 1280 
 
 15. John (called by Willis de la Sturi), occurs 
 
 in the registers in 1304 
 
 16. Malthew 'de Mimminglond succeeded, and 
 died very*early in 1332 
 
 N. B. During his government, the priory was 
 overcharged with debts. Vid. fol. 18. vol. 2. 
 Reg. Grandissoni. 
 
 17. John de Englebourne, instituted on the 
 
 28 th March, 1332. 
 
 He died 14th Sept. 1347. 
 
 18. Robert de Forde succeeded Nov. 3, 1347 
 
 19. Thomas Denlyth. 
 
 20. Raduffus Person occurs in 1373 
 He died very late in 1379. 
 
 21. John Shaldon succeeded on the 27th of 
 the following Febfnary. 
 
 He died in the spring of 1422. 
 
 22. Nicholas Selman confirmed as his succes- 
 sor on the 4th of May, 1422 
 He died March 1, 1434-6. 
 
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 A. D. 
 
 23. Richard Bredon succeeded on thoSlst o( 
 the sanaQ tnpnth and year. His death happened 
 
 on the 18th Oct. 143T 
 
 24. Boheri Boys, instituted Prior thirteen 
 days after. 
 
 He died 14th April, . J 410 
 
 25. William Hylle, coaiirnied as his successor 
 on the 3d of the ensuing May, and resigned his 
 office, on account of his age and infirmities, in 
 July, 1462 
 
 26. Robert Denbawde succeeded him on the 
 5th of the following August. 
 
 27. David Bercte, I think, was instituted Prior 
 early in 1479 
 He died on 13th March, 1507-8. 
 
 28. John Ryse confirmed as his successor by 
 Bishop Oldam , 3 1 st Mar ch , 1 608 
 
 29. John David, the Sab-Prior, succeeded, 
 and died early iu 1521-2. 
 
 30. John Sowg, the last Prior, succeeded 
 March 8, 1621-^ 
 
 On the 5th of August, A. D. 1634, he subscribed, 
 
 with twenty Monks, to the King's supremacy. After 
 
 the dissolution of his house, be retired to Exeter 
 College, Oxford, and was still alive in 1553. 
 
 The following annuities were granted to the reli- 
 gious of this house, 16. May, 31. Hen! VIII. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 To John Howe, the Prior. 120 
 
 William Pyeres 10 
 
 Richard Keyser 10 
 
 Barnard Cole 6 13 4 
 
 Henry Luxton 7 
 
 John Pereman 6 13 4 
 
 John NicoUes 6 13 4 
 
 John Derke 6 0- 
 
 John Wymond 6 
 
 Simon Savery., 6 
 
 Robert Rudge 6 6 8 
 
 Robert Demond 6 6 8 
 
 John Ferrys 6 6 8 
 
 Thomas Wiicocks 6 
 
33 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Ralph Savage 4 13 4 
 
 John Bedford 4 13 4 
 
 Edward Marten 4 13 4 
 
 Robert Heron ,... 4 13 4 
 
 The annual revenues of Plympton Priory amounted 
 to. £912 12s. 8d. 
 
 The following documents will afford a tolerable 
 idea of the immense chuneh patronage which it 
 formerly enjoyed. We may remark, once for all, 
 that appropriations were granted to religious houses, 
 for the promotion of hospitality and charity ; " ad 
 hpspitum ac pauperum sustentationem." 
 
 *Universis presentes literas inspecluris Johannes, 
 &c. salutem in sinceris amplexibus Salv.atoris. Inter 
 cetera que nostrum animum insultibus impetunt suc- 
 cessivis, illud nos frequent! meditatione perurget, 
 ut Viri Religiosi nobis Diooesano jure subjecti, ob 
 illius, ,cui suam- integrifatem spontaneA voluntate 
 devoverunt reverenciam, vitatis noxiis causarum 
 strepitibus quibus plevumque plus debito se invol- 
 vunt, liberius & quietius suo inserviant Creator!. Sane 
 cum olim per Ecclesiam, Civitatem & totam Diocesim 
 Bostram Exon Diocesand auetoritate Visitationiis 
 officio fungeremur, comperimus dilectosfilios Priorem 
 & ConVentum Monasterii Plympton, Ordinis Sancti 
 Augustini, nostri PatronatAs & Diocesis, per varia 
 loca nobis Diocesano jure subjecta, Eeclesias & Ca- 
 pellas distinctas, Parochias & Paroehianos, curamque 
 animarum^ habentes, Poroiones quoque Decimarum 
 & Pensiones inferius designatas tenure & percipere 
 velut in usus proprios perpetuo possidendas, viz. 
 Beatorum Petri S^ Plympton ubldegunt cum capelld 
 Sancte Marie 4" Sancti Thome de Plympton, de 
 Brixton & de fVemby, de Plympstock & Sheare ac 
 Saundford ab e^dem dependentibus Ecclesiam Sancti 
 AnteniniX cuxn capella Sanete Gerende ab e&dem 
 depehidente, Eeclesias de iaMAorw de Macre & de 
 Suione cum capelld de Bottockishide ab eddem de- 
 pendente, de Eckebokelond, Dene & TamaHon cum 
 
 * Ex folio 12eToai.2.Regist.JohanmsGrandissomExonEpiad.!m.I334. 
 t Theword Pauli is omitted. % It should bo Sancti Antonii. 
 
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 oapellfi Set Martini de Mar/i/stoine ab eadein depen- 
 dente ; de Sancte Marieslowe cum capell& de Thris- 
 shelslone& Sci Jacob i Inc hewode a.h ekdem depen- 
 dentibus, necnon Capellam Sancte Marie de Maresoo 
 prope Exoniam una cum decimis, juribus & pertinen- 
 ciis ecclesiarum predictarum, porciones quoque deoi- 
 niarum & oblationum, viz. medietatem ipsarom perveni- 
 entiuni ad ecclesiam Sancte Gerende (exceptis terrls 
 nostris Dominicis ibidem) Penciones insuper annuas 
 XII marcarum Sterlingorum in Ecelesi&de Uggeburgh 
 — V marcarum de Exemynsier — XL solidorum de 
 Nywelon—Cs de Islyngton — XLs de Stockintytihide X 
 marcarum de Blackaueton — X marcarum de Brites- 
 towe — I marcede Bralton — I marcede Mevoy — I marce 
 Set Justi — II marcarum de Lanhern & V librarum 
 cere de Petrestavy, ecclesiis nostre Diooesis: — necnon 
 VI marcarum sterlingorum in nostrd Exon Ecclesid 
 de singulis Prebendis singulorum Canonicorum Pre- 
 bendariorum dicte Ecclesie cum ab h&c luce migra- 
 yerint vel per ingressum Religionis absolute vacaverint 
 VicariA su&. Cum itaque -super preitiissis omnibus & 
 singulis fecissemus dictos ' Priorem &. Conventum 
 coram nobis ad dictos dies & ad dictum locum ad 
 judicium legitimum evocari, proposituros rationes, 
 munimenta, titulos & jura, quorum pretextu, Ecclesias, 
 Capellas, Decimarura Porciones & Pensiones predic- 
 tas se legitime adeptos dicant & licite posse tenere, 
 percipere & habere, Frater Robertus de Fforde Sub- 
 Prior dicti Monasterii, dictorum Prioris & ConventAs 
 Procurator ad hoc sufficienter constitutus coram nobis 
 comparens, pro.eis propoSuit in formA juris, dictos 
 Priorem & Conventum Dominos suos fuisse & esse 
 jure & titulis sufBcientibus super assecutione, liber& 
 retentione & perceptione licitA Ecclesiarum, Capel- 
 larum & Decimarum, Porcionum & Pensionum predk;- 
 tarum communitos. Idemque Procurator, premiss^ 
 hac adjectione, jurando proposuit, quod dicti Prior 
 & Conventus Plympton & eorum Predecessoresniictas 
 Ecclesias & Capellas cum suis juribus & pertinenciis 
 universis tanquam sibi & Monasterio sue Plympton, 
 canonice appropriatas & unitas pacifice tenuerunt & 
 possiderunt, scientibus, pacientibus, immo verius ap- 
 probautibus Venerabilibus Patribus Episcopis Exon 
 
35 
 
 tB tempore quod excedit menioriam hominum & ma- 
 jorum : quodtjue Decimarum Porciones & Peusrcnies 
 predictas paoi6ee & quiete peTceperunt tanto tem- 
 pore quod diu ante septam* Visitationem nostram, 
 bujusmodi dicti Prior & Conventus jus pereipiendi 
 eas , legitime presoripserunt. Exhibitis igitur, per 
 Procuratorem predictum procurationis nomine dicto- 
 riiraDominorum suorumad probationem premissoritm 
 nonnullis Apostolicis & pluribus aliis Predecessorum 
 nostrorum Exon Episcoporura, ac Eeclesie nostre 
 Exon CapitCili, alioramque quorum intererat. Uteris, 
 & instrutyientis productis & quibusdam testibus jura- 
 tis & examinatis. & eorum attestationibus publicatis 
 & disoussis, tiabita n.obiscum & cum Petifojribus super 
 premissis visis & diligenter reeeasitis, deliberatione 
 pleijariA & frequenti, quia manifeste invenimus pro- 
 posita huju&modi per dictum Procuratorem sufiBcien- 
 ter & legitime probata esse, Nos JoHBS, &c. Epis- 
 copus predictus, Christi nomine invocato, de juribus 
 ■ Petitorum, nobis assidencium consilio, dictas Eecle- 
 sias & Capellas dictis Priori & Conventui ac eorum 
 Monasterio predicto legitime concessas, appropriatas 
 & unitas, ac concessiones & appropriationes bujus- 
 modi validas, neenon Porcioaum & Pensionum pre- 
 dictarum perceptiones justas fuisse & esse, eosque 
 exhabundanti premissa omnia & singula legitime pre • 
 seripsisse, prout hec omnia in Petitione SummariA per 
 dictum Procuratorem nomine quo supra coram nobis 
 judicialiter oblatA, ,petita erant, premissa vocatione 
 debiti omnium quorum interest in hiis scriptis, per, 
 nostram difiRnitivam sententiam pronunciamus, de- 
 oernimus & declaramus & nominamus & adjudicamus 
 eisdem. In quorum omnium testimonium presentes 
 Literas seu presens publicum Instrumentum per Ro- 
 bertum Piek, clericum, auctoritate Apostolica Nota- 
 rium Publicum fnfrascriptum, scribi, & publicari 
 mandamus & nostrl sigilli appensione muniri. Datum 
 & actum in Manerio nostro de Clyst 111" die Marcii 
 Anno Dni MCCCXXXIV. 
 
 In the taxatio already quoted, mention is made of 
 tbe following annuities to Plympton Priory: 
 _ . -* 
 
 * Coeptam. 
 
86 
 
 £ s. d. 
 Prior Plympton percipit in Ecclesi&Sci Johis 
 
 de Arcubus Exonie 10 
 
 Tn ecclesi4 de Exmyuster 3 6 8 
 
 In ecclesi& de Stok 2 
 
 De ecolesiA de Downe 2 
 
 De Anetote 6 13 4 
 
 De ecclesiA de Ugeburgh 8 
 
 De ecclesi& de Mewy 13 4 
 
 De Ilistimton (Ilsington) 5 
 
 De ecclesiA de Bratton ... 6 6 8 
 
 De eeelesi& SciJusli 1 10 
 
 De ecnlesi& SoiMaugani 16 8 
 
 In fol. 31. vol. 3. of Gfandisson's Register, it is 
 stated, that the priory received an annual pension of 
 fifty marks from the vicarage of Sutton. 
 
 In fol. 166. of the same volun\e, the Bishop 
 informs us, thai the church of Stoke paid 40s. per an. 
 to the priory, and the church of Exminster, £61 3s. 4d. 
 The following statement of the property of Plymp- 
 ton Priory is extracted from the Taaatio so often 
 quoted : — 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Prior de Plympton habet in Plympton, Reg- 
 way, Synford, Sotanfi, Beringdond and 
 
 Brastone 7 18 8 
 
 Manerde Dane 6 3 
 
 Maner de Neweton, Beallthleng and Primry- 
 
 ton 8 11 4 
 
 Apud Tamerten, Martinescombe, Kentebere 1 19 4 
 
 Apud Combe Rowaldone 18 
 
 Apud la Flor Trisselton, Waterfall, & Sachi 3 14 
 
 In Decanatu de Plympton de redditibus 10 
 
 Apud Cornewode ...' 3 
 
 Apud la Elme 6 
 
 Apud Swineston 13 4 
 
 Apud Hasewill 6 
 
 Apud Appildereslade 5 
 
 Apud Westonesham 18 4 
 
 Apud la More juxta Langhiwis 10 
 
 Apud la More' splet 7 
 
 Apud Lamtride Crispin 6 8 
 
 Apud Ermside 4 
 
37 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Apud Worth Hele 18 
 
 De terfA le.Cole 2 
 
 De terra de Maddewill 18 
 
 De Brok t 2 
 
 De Gradinton 3 
 
 ApudTettwill 3 
 
 Apod Combe ■.. 4 
 
 DelaKeer 3 6 
 
 ApudlaFenne 8 
 
 Apud Midelton 5 
 
 Apud Stownahill 4 
 
 Apud Sharyscombe <■ 6 8 
 
 Apud Maneton 8 
 
 Apud Lorekedombe 13 4 
 
 Apud la More 16 
 
 Apud Donesidiok 5 
 
 Apud Lampford 16 
 
 Item apud Bonchedonn 3 
 
 Apud Shoetrug 6 8 
 
 Apud Tormebury 12 
 
 Apud Crepetoun 6 
 
 lt«m habet in CornublA in Decimis in Est' 
 wyneshir «fe Poudyrshyr, apud Tredenhale, 
 simul Hende & Trldinet, Colesvode & Te- 
 
 nestrint que taxantur ad 2 8 
 
 Apud Sanctum Antonium de redd 3 12 10 
 
 Item in CdVnubiaapud Lanhow de redd 4 3 
 
 Item de redd molend & perquis 1 14 4 
 
 Apud Ornell & Macre que taxatur ad 16 8 
 
 Summa Plympton £53 7 8 
 
 Decime £5 6 9i 
 
 Within the cemitery of the conventual cburch at 
 Plympton, was a parochial chapel dedicated to St. 
 Mary^ As a mark of dependence, the parishioners 
 had been accustomed, from time immemorial, to assist 
 at divine service, in the conventual church, on the 
 feast of its dedication ; as also to receive there the 
 blest Psalms on Palm Sunday, and to walk in the pro- 
 
38 
 
 cession. Bishop Lacy confirmed (hese customs on 
 the 21st of March, 1436.— Vid. fol. 140. vol. 3. Regist. 
 
 The priory possessed, in the City of Exeter, a gar- 
 den, situate near the Bishop's palace ; a large bouse 
 at the Eastern corner of the entrance from Fore- 
 street into St. Mary Arohes'-street, now occu- 
 pied by Mr. Coldridge, ironmonger ; also a bouse 
 and garden in the parish of .St. Mary Major. This 
 tenement was in Cookes lievse, and was let by the 
 last Prior to John Alyn, 16. September, 16. Hen. 
 VIII. In the lease before me, it is thus de- 
 scribed :— _" illud tenemeutum nostrum cum suis 
 pertinenciis situatum in civitate Exon in quodam vice 
 ibidem vocato Le Cokerewe inter dictum vioum 
 ex parte Orientali & tenementum heredis Johis Speke 
 Militis ex parte Occidentali & tenementum nostrum 
 proprium ex parte Boreali & tenementum Decani & 
 Capituli Ecclesie Cathedral Exon ex parte Australi." 
 
 Two religious cells depended on this great monas- 
 tery : one of St. Anthony, in Cornwall; the other 
 of St. Mary de Marisco, in the vicinity of Exeter. — 
 At the dissolution of religious houses, I observe iu 
 a lease now before me, that the royal plunderer, 
 on the 21. January, 31. Hen. VIII. granted to 
 Henry Thomas, of London, yeoman, for the term of 
 twenty-one years, at the rate of £27 per ann. the 
 priory of St. Anthony, with its appurtenances ; viz. 
 £6 14s. 4d. were to be paid for, what are called, " the 
 Daraayne lands of the Priorie," 66s. and 8d. for the 
 mills ; 100s. for the rectory of St. Anthony ; and £12 
 for the rectory of St. Gerend. 
 
 St. Mary's de Marisco, now called Marsh Barton, 
 was founded in the reign of Heury III. Leiand incor- 
 rectly states it to have been a cell to St. Anthony's 
 Priory, already mentioned. At the dissolution of 
 religious houses, the scite was granted by Henry VIIT. 
 to James Coffin and Thomas Godwin. 
 
 In fol. 89. vol. 1. of Bishop Stafford's Register, is 
 given an account of a remarkable occurrence that 
 tooli place in this cell or priory. The Bishop asserts, 
 that John Sutton, a servant and cook in the house, 
 was a most violent and passionate man ; and that, 
 
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 after having employed the most scurrilous language 
 against Thomas Cryer, a regular Canon of Plympton, 
 who happened to be in the hall of the priory, he pro- 
 ceeded to attack him with a drawn dagger. The 
 Canon, seeing no means of escaping, was necessitated 
 to stand oh self defence, and seizing a stick, which 
 he luckily spied in a corner of the room, he struck the 
 villain a severe blow in the head. A doctor was sent 
 for to examine the wound ; but the obstinate and ma- 
 licious man wonld.conform to no directions, nor suffer 
 any applications, and he died three days after. 
 Thomas, conceiving himself to have incurred irre- 
 gularity, abstained from the exercise of his priestly 
 functions ; but, on mature consideration of the case. 
 Bishop Stafford pronounced, on the 6th September, 
 A. D, 1409, that the Canon was entirely free from 
 blame, and of course was clear from any ecclesiastical 
 irregularity. 
 
 On referring to the taxation of King Edward I. we 
 find the following particulars concerning the property 
 of this establishment. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Custos loci Beate Marie de Marisco habet 
 terram in Decanatu de Ken que taxatur cum 
 Instauro ad 13 4 
 
 In Civitate Exon de redd 5 3 9 
 
 Summa 6 7 1 
 
 Decima 12 8 
 
 In the Episcopal Registers, frequent mention is 
 made of the Franciscan convent at Plyipouth. 
 
 There was also in Plymouth a community of Car- 
 melites, or " White Friars." Bishop Stapeldon 
 licensed their establishment there by his letters of 
 28. September, 1314, at the desire of King Edward 11. 
 In fol. 48. vol. 1. of Bishop Brantyngham's Register, 
 we read that their Prior, Henry Sutton, was excom- 
 municated for presuming to absolve in a reserved 
 case. This convent continues to give its name to a 
 street and lane in its vicinity. 
 
40 
 
 TAVISTOCK ABBEY.* 
 
 This illustrious Abbey, dedicated t-o the. Blessed 
 Virgin and St. Rumon,t Bishop and Confessor, was 
 begun by Ordgar, Earl of DevoUj in 961, and com- 
 pleted by his son Ordulph. About thirty-six years 
 after its foundation, it was burnt and destroyed by 
 the Danish invaders during the calamitous reign of 
 King Etbeked. But it soon rose, a Phoenix from 
 its ashes ; and though not so opulent as the Priory of 
 Plympton, y«tit was far superior in point of dignity 
 and of local situation ; and it eclipsed every religious 
 house in Devonshire, in the extent, convenience 
 and magnific&nce of its buildings.. The Kings of 
 England, from the conquest at least, were reputed 
 its founders and patrons. 
 
 ABBOTS OF TAVXSTOCK. 
 
 A. B. 
 
 L Aimer, who is described in the cartulaiy 
 of the abbey as a good scholar, and exemplary 
 for bis piety to God and charity to man. He 
 was doomed to witness the utter destruction of 
 bis monastery by the Danish invaders. How long 
 he survived this catastrophe is uncertain. 
 
 2. Livingus. He was originally a Monk of St. 
 Swithin's monastery at Winchester. Hisbenefac- 
 tionsand servfces to Tavistock Abbey, entitle him 
 to. the name bf its second founder. " Per Ordga- 
 
 * Arms of the abbey — Vair, Or A: Azure : on a Chief of the first, two 
 Mullets Gules. 
 
 + St. Rumon's festival was celebrated at Tavistock, ■on the, 4th of 
 January, with a fair of three diiys. This Saint was an Irish Bishop. The 
 historj' of his life had perished before William of Malmesbury's time : pro- 
 bably before the Danish invasions. Vid. Gul. Malmesb. de Gest. Pont. 
 Angl. Lib. 2. There was a Saint RumoW, Bishop of Dublin, afterwards 
 first Bishop of Mechlin, who was murdered by two assassins in the year 775. 
 See Sir James Ware's Hist, of the Bishops of Ireland. Edit. Dublin^ 
 1739. p. 305. There is no other Irish Bishop, mentioned by Sir James 
 of u name any thing like Rumen. ' 
 
41 
 
 A. D. 
 
 rum surgepdi exor^iu^, peri LiviDgum Episce- 
 puniicrescendiaccepitauspicium.""Wil.Malnaes. 
 In 1032 he was promoted %o ^he See of Crediton. 
 On the death of hisuncle~Brlthwold, the Bishop 
 of Cornwall, he succeeded in uniting that dio- 
 cese in perpetuity to his own See, In 1038 
 King Harold appointed him to the bishopric of 
 Worcester, which he continued to hold, 'n^ith 
 'CreditpB, until his death, on Sunday, 23. March, 
 ,1046. H? was buried at Tavistock. 
 
 3. Aldred, a Monk of Winchesteir, su^cecd^d 
 (Livingus, first as Abbot of Tavistock, arid se- 
 condly as Bishop of Worcester. In 1 0^60 be 
 was translated to York, where he sat uqtil bis 
 death, on 11, September, 1069 
 
 4. Sislricus, wbp died in the spring of 1082 
 6. Gaufred I., whm died in 1088 
 
 6. W^tftnond. He was deposed by St. Anselm, 
 for simony, in 1102. — See Eadmeri Hist. fo. 67. 
 
 7. Oshert was Abbot in 1109* 
 
 8. Gaufred II. was the next Abbot. 
 
 9. Robert de Ply mpion, who is, supposed to 
 have died in 1 145 
 
 10. Robert Posfett,. who was ^bbot nine 
 years. 
 
 11. fF'aZ/er, who is said to have, 4ied in 1174 
 
 12. Baldwin. 
 
 13. Stephen. 
 
 14. Herbert. To this Abbot, Pope Celes,tine ■ 
 
 II. addressed a bull of privileges, on 29.. May, ll^B 
 — Se& 2 . Regist. VeySey. f o , 4 1 . 
 
 15. Jorrfare was'sippointed, I believe, in , 12Q4 
 
 16. ff^ilKam de KernU,^xiov of Otterton, was 
 elected' Jqrdan^s SUCeesspr, in 1^20. He held his 
 dignity four yesare- 
 
 17. John. 
 
 18. Alan de jOornwccll^ who died, in 1248 
 
 19. Robert jde Kiiecnol. 
 
 20. Thomais, who dle& in 1 1,2^7 
 
 . , . ,, ,,: ■;:"•■.• r ■;.' U'j: ■ - " 
 
 * We have to regret the very jejune and imperfect account of the' Allow- 
 ing Abbots, until the acce,s^ion of Philip Trentjieful, in 1259, when we take: 
 for our^tiide the registersof the Exeter Bisl/Sps. 
 
 ^■" E 
 
43 
 
 A. D. 
 
 21. John de iVbrM«nnplon, who presided during 
 two years 
 
 22. Philip Trentheful, a Monk of St. Swi- 
 thun's Monastery, at Winchester, was con- jggg 
 firmed the next Abbot, in Oct. 
 
 He made Ws profession to Bishop Brones- 
 combe, in the following words : — vid. Regist. fo. 
 8. " Ego frater Philippus, electus AbbasEcdesie 
 de Tavistock, promitto tibi. Pater Dne \Valtere 
 Exon Epe, tuisque successoribus eanonicfe in- 
 tronizandis & SaneteExoniensisEcclesie,fidem 
 & canonicam per omnia subieotionem." 
 
 23. J/wrerf, confirmed Abbot on the 29. Sept. 1260 
 N B. Fecit professionem quam obtiilit super 
 
 principale Altare. Regist. Bronfiscombe. 
 
 24. John CAu66e succeeded, but was deposed 
 by Bishop Bronescombe, in crastino Sancti 
 Edmundi Regis & Martyris, (21 . Nov.) 1269 
 
 The Bishop describes hiqi as " Monasterii bo- 
 norum dilapidator intolerabills & manifestus, " 
 reprobates his scandalous neglect of religious 
 discipline, and enumerates instances of his sa- 
 vage violence, and even sacrilege. 
 
 25. RobertfWho was substituted in the place of 
 John Chubbe, on Palm Sunday, 1270 
 
 26. Robert Champecmx editer Campell, suc- 
 ceeded in 1285 
 
 This Abbot is highly commended for his ten^ 
 der piety and zeal for improvement. During 
 his government, several parts of the Abbey 
 were re-built, but particularly the conventual 
 church, which is said to have been 378 feet 
 long, without including the Lady's chapel. 
 Bishop StapeldoQ dedicated this noble church 
 and two altars in the nave, on the 21. Aug. 
 1318. It was finally taken down in 1670. 
 
 On the 21. May, the same year, the Bishop 
 had dedicated St. Eustachius* parish church, at 
 Tavistock, which adjoined to the abbey inclo- 
 sure. 
 
 This amiable and benevolent Abbot, with the 
 consent of his convent,A.D. 1291, appropriated, 
 
43 
 
 A. D. 
 
 for ever, the whole profits arising from an estate 
 -oalled Westlydeton (granted two years before 
 "to his abbey, by" Sir Odo Le Arcedeakne), to the 
 providing of the poor with clothes and shoes ; the 
 annual distribution of which was made in the 
 cloisters, on the 2. November, the commemo- 
 ration of all the Faithful departed. 
 
 In consequence of this Abbot's petition, 
 Bishop StapeWon approved and confirmed a 
 perpetual chantry, to be erected in the parish 
 church of Whitechnrch, near Tavistock, for four 
 Priests, who should be bound to celebrate the 
 daily aiid nightly office, together with the ser- 
 vice for the dead ; to say three, or at least two, 
 Requiem masses every day, besides one of our 
 Lady. In their suffrages, they were to pray for 
 the prosperity of the said Abbot and convent ; , 
 
 for King Edward I'l. and his Queen Isabella ; 
 for the Bishtfp,' Dean and Chapter of Exeter ; 
 and for the founders and benefactors of Tavis- 
 tock Abbey. The Superior of these Priests was 
 to be called- the Arch-priest ; he was to live in 
 common with them ; and they were to be called 
 his Sooii, ar Fellows. He was also to be charged 
 with the care of the parishioners. — Vid. Sta- 
 peldon'j Regists^fo. 165. 
 
 N.'B, The famous charter, "-De Libertatibus 
 Comitates Devon," granted by King John, and 
 its confirmation by his son, Henry III., were 
 preserved in Tavistock Abbey. Bishop Stapel- 
 don took copies of these originals, and has in- 
 serted them fo. 152. of his register. * 
 
 22. Bobert Bonus mdacteA ]3. June, 1328 
 on the recommendation of Pope John XXI'I. 
 
 N, B. Bishop Grandisson deposed this Abbot, 
 for contumacy and intemperate behaviour, 24. 
 ■October, 1333 
 
 23. John deCourtenay, substituted for Robert, 
 
 24. April, 1334 
 
 N. B. This Abbot had very little of the spirit 
 of a religious man. He was passionately fond 
 
 • Chappie, in p. 52. of his Review of Risdon, has given inoorreet copies 
 (Of these charters. Faithful transcripts may be seen (ft) Appendix. 
 
 e2 
 
44 
 
 A. D 
 
 of field sports, was very conceited and foppish 
 in his dress, and a most incurable spendthrift. 
 During his governnient, discipline seems to have 
 been bs^nished from the convent. Frequently but 
 two of the community were present at the regu- 
 lar meals in the reiFec^pry, whilst the rest were 
 feasting sumptuously in iheir private chambers. 
 From the neglect of repairs, the monastery was 
 falling into a dilapidated state ; and, moreover, 
 was overcharged with debts. " Monasterium, 
 quod solebat abundare divitiis & honore, erat & 
 est oneribus debitorum usque ad MCCC libras 
 sterlingorum & aliorum multiplicium onerum 
 sarcind pregravatum." — Vid. 1. Regist. Gran- 
 disson, fo. 134. II. Idem. fo. 217. 12. SelpU 
 and 14. Oct. 1345. 
 29. Richard de Esse succeeded In 1348 
 
 ' 30. Stephen Langdon succeeded in 1362 
 
 31. Thomeis Ctdlyng, confirmed as Abbot on 
 
 the 12. February, ,1380-1 
 
 I believe this Abbot finished the campanile of 
 the chnrch, begun by his predecessor. 
 He died 1 1 June, 
 
 32. John May, confirmed as his successor 30. 
 July, 1402 
 He died 7. February, 1421-2 
 
 33. Thomas Mede, elected 26 March, and 
 confirmed by Bishop Lacy, 19. April, 1422 
 
 N. B. This Abbot is accused of neglecting re- 
 gular discipline, of enormous dilapidations, and 
 of simony ; but the charge appears to be exagp 
 ge rated. 
 
 34. TAomas Crysp^ra, elected 11. June, 1442 
 His death happened 5. April, 1447 
 
 35 fVilliam Pevee, elected 2. May, 1447 
 confirmed Abbot 23d of that month, and died 
 
 26. Dec. 1460 
 
 36 John Dynyngion was elected to «ucceed 
 William, on the 27th of the following January, 
 and was confirmed by Bishop Lacy, 20. Fe- 
 bruary. 
 
 N. B. It appears, from 2. Rymer's Foedera, 
 p. 408. that this Abbot obtained a papal 
 
45 
 
 grant to use the pontificals and to give the 
 episcopal benediotion at mass and at table. 
 
 37. RichcM-d,wla6sB institution is not recorded 
 in the registers. 
 
 38. Richard Yerne. I can find no date of his 
 confirmation. 
 
 39. Richard Banham, the date of whose elec- 
 ,tion or confirmution I have not succeeded in 
 discovering. KingHenry VIII. created him a 
 Mitred Abbot, 22. Jan. 1513. Appendix (t). 
 It maybe observed here, that these parliamen- 
 tary Abbots ranked among themselvesin the Up- 
 per House, according to seniority of creation. 
 
 The contest which this Abbot maintained with 
 Bishop Oldam has been vajiouslj related; but 
 the following facts, extracted from that Bishop's 
 Register, may be depended upon :— 
 
 This Abbot was cited, J5. April, 1513, to 
 appear before Dr. Richard Collet, the Bishop's 
 commissioner, to answer to the charge of con- 
 tempt of episcopal authority. The Abbot, 
 instead of explaining the occasion of his con- 
 duet, or offering any apology, produced a writ- 
 ten appeal to the Roman Court. The appeal 
 was declared, by the commissioner, to be frivo- 
 lous and inadmissible. For his obstinacy, the 
 Abbot was suspended that very day; and, on the 
 22nd of the same month was excommunicated, 
 " propter multiplicem contumaciam." On the 
 10. May he appeared in person before Bishop 
 Oldam, at the palace in Exeter ; and on his 
 bended knees most humbly and most earnestly 
 intreated to be absolved from his censures; and 
 offered to submit himself, unconditionally, to 
 the Bishop's correction. The Bishop then ten- 
 dered the oath of submission to tHe See of Exe- 
 ter, and, after he^ had taken it, absolved him 
 from his censures ; whereupon the Abbot paid 
 ffim down fiVe pounds of gold. 
 
 The repentance of the Abbot seems to have 
 been insincere ; for, soon after, he appealed to 
 the Primate, William Warham, and to Richard 
 Fitz-James, Bishop of London. The question 
 
 E 3 
 
 A, D. 
 
46 
 
 A. It. 
 
 chiefly turned oa the right of episcopal visita- 
 tion. These Prelates decided, on the 8th of 
 Febma^y following, that the Abbot had not 
 produced any indults, bulls, or vouchers, au- 
 thorising any exemptJOH from the jurisdiction 
 of the Ordinary ; they therefore decreed, tha,t 
 he and his convent should submit to this regu- 
 larly constituted authority, as their predecessors 
 had done from time immemorial ; they recom- 
 mended to the Abbot to apply to his Bis^hop 
 for the benefit of absolation 5 and they directed, 
 the Bishop to confer it without hesitation, and 
 to treat the Abbot with mildness and paternafr 
 affection. — So far, Oldam's Register- 
 
 Thtis Abbot was not. discouraged by defeat- 
 Frora the Primate he appealed to the Court of 
 Rome ; and at last succeeded in obtaining, from 
 Pope Leo X. a bull of such ample and ex- 
 traordinary privileges, as completely to indem- 
 nify him for- his fgrmer expences and trouble. 
 This bull is dated 14. September 1517, and. 
 is copied in the appendix, (k) from the 2. 
 vol. of Bishop Veysey's Register. It expressly 
 exempts the Abbey of Tavistock, with its several 
 dependencies, from all archiepiscopal, and all 
 episcopal jurisdiction, visitation and superiority; 
 and lakes it and them under the sole and imme- 
 diate protection of the Holy See. It declares, 
 that all suspensions, interdicts, and excommuni- 
 cations pronounced against them by any other 
 authority than that of the See Apostolic, are ab- 
 solutely void and null ; " nulla, irrita et inva- 
 lida, nnlliusque roboris vel momenti." As an 
 acknowledgment for such sweeping liberality,, 
 the Abbot was annually to pay to the Aposto- 
 lic Chamber, on the Feast of SS. Peter and 
 Paul, half an ounce of gold, (i.e.) twenty shil- 
 lings of lawful money of England.* 
 
 40. John Peryn, it is said, succeeded in Dec. 1628 
 But his confirmation i« not recorded in Bishop 
 Veysey's Registers. In virtue of the bull of 
 Pope Leo X. 1 observe that this Abbot styles 
 himself, in several leases before me, " Abbas ex- 
 
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 A. D. 
 
 empti M onasterii Beate Marie & Sci Rumonis ' , 
 de Tavystock." On the surtender of his monas- 
 tery, he was granteii a pension of £100 per an- 
 num. Nineteen of his Religious obtained sala- 
 ries at the same time. The grants of these 
 pensions are dated 26. April, 31 Hen. VIII., 
 and are as follows : — 
 
 ■£. s. d. 
 
 To Abbot John Peryn 100 
 
 Robert Walsh 10 00 
 
 John Carter 8 
 
 John Harrys 8 
 
 William Chester 6 13 4 
 
 John Axworige 6 13 4 
 
 John Puxeley 6 13 4 
 
 Richard Wakeham 6 
 
 William Peke 6 
 
 William Willyams 6 
 
 Richard Gregory 6 
 
 William Growdon 6 
 
 Stephen Bemell .„ 6 
 
 John Abraham 5 6 8 
 
 John Benett 6 6 8 
 
 Edmund Peryn 5 6 8 
 
 Nicholas Buckfastre 5 6 8 
 
 William Lechedon 5 , 6 8 
 
 Robert Heron 4 13 4 
 
 Richard Peke 2 
 
 John Wele 2 
 
 The revenues of this abbey were rated at £902 6. 7. 
 per annum. 
 
 In the Taxatio Bonorum Ecclesiasticorum, I read 
 as follows : — 
 
 £ s. d. 
 Abbas de Tavistock percipit de Ecclesiis de 
 
 Rame, Seyak et Anton 8 
 
 De capellis de Wolrington & Sci Egidii 2 
 
 Item habet Manerium de Herwyk, val ....10 16 10 
 
 Manerium deTavistock • 6 4 
 
 Piscaria apnd-que tax .......* , 10 
 
 Maner de Mfdelton & Legh 7 10 
 
 Apud Morewel 2 10 
 
 Maner de Wohinton 11 16 
 
48 
 
 £ s. d- 
 
 Maner de Hatherlfegh ..;; i 9 5 6' 
 
 Maner de Abboteishatn ....; '. 6 S" 4 
 
 Maner de Borin^totl'.. 5 10 6 
 
 Maner dt* Deneneburi 3 8' 
 
 Maner de Wicceham cunri redd de Ta^ Sci 
 
 Petri........ .....-.;.; 2 2 6 
 
 Maner de Plymstok 5 3 4 
 
 The soite of this great abbey and the principal 
 part df itW estates, were granted by King Henry VlII. 
 on the 4th of July, 31st year of his reignj to John Lord~ 
 Russell. Appendix (l) 
 
 The Abbot's residence in Exeter occupied the 
 scite of those premises in South-atreet, now in- 
 the possession of Mr. Russell. I have met with a> 
 lease (dated 7. Nov. a few months before the dissolu- 
 tion of the abbey,) by which John, the last Abbot, 
 le't the said dwelling-house to Edward Brydgeman,. 
 and Jane his wife, for the term of sixty years : " hos- 
 piciinbstri vocati Le Inne-de Bere cum omnibus suis 
 pertinenciis in vico Australi Gititatis Exon." Quere, 
 Was this the house mentioned in the Domesday as 
 being mortgaged to the abbey by a citizen of Exeter? 
 
 After the suppression of the abbey a chapel was 
 erected within its inclosure, and licensed for the 
 celebration of divine worship, at the request of the- 
 noble Lady Dorothy Mountjoy, on the 10th March,. 
 1541-2.— Vid. Regist. Veysey, fo. 109, 
 
 The registers mention a priory in St. Mary's, the 
 principal of the Scylly Islands, as being dependant' 
 on Tavistock Abbey. 
 
 Bishop Brantyngham, 26. September, 1374,. 
 granted an indulgence of twenty days to all per- 
 sons within the diocese of Exeter " Penitentibus & 
 Confessis," who should contribute to the support of 
 the Lepers' House, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, 
 dt Tavistock. 
 
 There was a chapel of St. Margaret near the 
 town of Tavistock.— Vid. 3. Regist. Lacy, fo. 63. 
 
 Also, a chapel of St. John the Baptist, juxta aquam 
 de Tavy in Parochia cle Tavystdck.— Ibid. fo. 128.. 
 
*FORD ABBEY, 
 
 Baldwin de BHIOmiSv (so called; from S8 
 place in Normandy,) for his signal services to Williams 
 the Conqueror, was created Earl of Oakhamptonj. 
 and rewarded with very large possessions in the 
 county of Devon.* This nobleman married Albreda,, 
 the Conqueror's iliece ; £^nd the fruit of this mar- 
 riage was a son called Richard, and a daughter 
 named AdeliCia. Richard succeeded .to his father's 
 honors and estates. In the year 1132 he fo«inded a 
 house fbr' Cistercians,, at Brighfley,. in the parish of 
 Sampf6rd Coutienay^ and procured a colony of 
 twelve Monks, and a Superior, called Richard, from 
 Waverly Abbey, ia the county of Surrey. Scarcely 
 had they tatkeu possession of this new establishment 
 when their founder and benefebetor was snatched 
 away by death. The convent was situated in a desert 
 and barren spot; the- community was destitute and 
 friendless ; and after mature deliberation, they una- 
 nimtjusly agreed to abandon Brightley, and to return 
 to Waverley. They had actually commenced their 
 journey, when AdeTOia, now sole heiress to her bro- 
 ther's ^tensive possessions, in compassion to their 
 forlorn condifioUr presented them with the manor of 
 Thorncombe, and built them a house at Harlescath, 
 which was completed in 114;^ and was dedicated to 
 our Lady. The spot on which the abbey was erected 
 
 • Q.— What were the arms of this Abbey. 
 
 * See Domesday; also Cleaveland's History of .the CouTtenay Fafnily, 
 a work of considerable merit. This learned and diligent writer derived 
 much assistance from Bouchet's " Histoire Genealogiqjie de la Maison de 
 e»urtenay,?' foL Paris X660, 
 
50 
 
 was soon after called Ford, from its contiguity to a 
 ford, a passage through the river Axe. 
 
 By descent from the founder's family, the Courte- 
 nays became the natural and legal protectors and 
 patrons of the abbey ; they considered it, says Cleave- 
 land, p. 128. as a most beautiful feather in their train ; 
 and many of them chose its precincts for the place of 
 their interment. 
 
 The following is the com pletest series of its Abbots 
 that I can recover : — 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1. i?icA«rrf, appointed 1132 
 
 2. Robert de Peningion. 
 
 3. Baldwin. He was a native of Exeter, and 
 of the lowest extraction. Bartholomew, Bishop 
 of Exeter, and an excellent judge nud encou- 
 rager of merit, was struck with his disposition 
 for piety and learning, and became his patron 
 and friend. , Under such auspices, Baldwin 
 could not but succeed. The Bishop made him 
 his Archdeacon, and the highest honors in the 
 church opened to his view, when he took the 
 determination of becoming a Religious. His 
 inclinations led him to the Cistercian Order, then 
 in high repute for fervor and austerity of life. 
 He was professed in the abbey of Ford ; and 
 after a few years was chosen the Superior of this 
 community. A short time after, he was raised 
 to the dignity of Bishop of Worcester. He 
 governed that See about three years, when he 
 was translated to Canterbury at the very time 
 that his venerable patron, Bishop Bartholomew, 
 was closing a life full of days and meritorious 
 actions. Seven years after, the Archbishop died 
 in the Holy Land, where he had followed his 
 Sovereign, Richard 1. — Vid. Actus Pontif. Can- 
 tuarautore Gervasio. inWharion's Anglia Sacra. 
 
 4. Robert. 
 
 5. John, commonly called Devoftius. He was 
 the friend and confessor of King John, and had 
 the reputation of being a consummate divine. 
 Under him, says Fuller, p. 263. of his Worthies, 
 
SI 
 
 A, Ve. 
 
 Ford Abbey had more learning than three con- 
 vents of the same bigness any where in England. 
 See also Risd en's Survey of Devon, jand Prince's 
 Worthies. " Floruit circa hunc annum Mauritius 
 Somerset b Cqsnobio Fordensi in DevoniA Cis^ 
 terciensis, cujus Sodalitii scriptor primus apud 
 Oxonienses emersit." — Wood Hist. & Antiq. 1194 
 Oxon. Lib. 1. p. 67. 
 - This respectable Abbot died 1220 
 
 6. Itofirer, who resigned in 1236 
 
 7. John de fVarwick, who died fn 1246 
 
 8. Adam. 
 
 9. William de Crikd,oi whom t find the foT' 
 lowing particulars in. Bishop Bronescombe's 
 Beffistcir *' 
 
 On Pentecost Eve, A. D. 1276, Bishop Bro- 
 nescombe excommunicated this Abbot, "'propter 
 manifestas offensas & multiplicatas contuma- 
 eias :" (vid. fo. 72.) and this sentence was ordered 
 to be read in the cathedral church, and in all 
 conveatual, collegiate and parish churches in 
 the city and diocese of Exeter, with the accus- 
 tomed, ceremomes. Broiaescombe notified the 
 excommunication to the Bishop of Bath and 
 Wells, and requested him to publish it in his 
 diocese ; he also sent information of these pro- 
 ceedings to King Edward I., and invoked the 
 assistance of the secular power to punish the 
 Abbot's contempt and rebellion. Indeed the 
 Abbot had proceeded ta the unjustifiable length 
 of excommunicating his Bishop in several parts 
 of the diocese. • 
 
 The King appointed Walter Stamel, Dean of 
 Sarum, and Thomas Weke, Archdeacon of 
 Dorset, professors of canon and civil law, t,o 
 decide their controversy. On the 22d October 
 1276, these ecclesiastical Judges' held their 
 first sitting at Westminster. The Abbot de- 
 clared his repe-ntance, and his readiness to pay 
 down £500, if such sum should be required by 
 the Court ; but the Judges'deferred giving any 
 opinion until after the following Easter, al- 
 thougji.thdy were urgently requestedjby Bishopi' 
 
62 
 
 A. 
 
 Eronescom be, to decide immediately, as is at- 
 tested by William, Bishop of LaudafF, Henry 
 Kilkenny, Canon of Exeter Cathedral, and seve- 
 ral others. — Vid. fo. 75. of the same Register. 
 
 In the meanwhile, the Abbot most anxiously 
 implored the King to prevent the secular power 
 from being directed against him ; he main- 
 tained, that the censures of his Bishop were 
 absolutely null and void, as his convent was 
 sjpecially exempted by papal indolts from any 
 episcopal jurisdiction ; he represented the very 
 considerable injury already sustained by hitnself 
 and his convent, and declares that certain ruin 
 awaits them, unless his Majesty shall interpose 
 in their favor. 
 
 At last (fo. 79.) thfe parties agreed, by an 
 indenture dated at Westniinster, 6. May 1277, 
 absolutely to abide by the decision of the above- 
 mentioned Judges, under a penalty of £100, to 
 be forfeited to the obedient, by the refractory, 
 party. On the same day, the final sentence 
 was passed, — viz. that the Abbot should recal 
 the sentences of excommunication, in the vel-y 
 places where he had fulminated them against 
 his Bishop — that he should pronounce them to 
 have been absolutely null" and void — that he, 
 his Monks and dependents should proceed, on 
 the ensuing feast of the Nativity of St. John the 
 Baptist, from the gate of St. Peter's cemitery, in 
 Exeter, to the entrance door of St. Peter's 
 Church, bareheaded, barefooted and loosely 
 dressed, and there receive a discipline, either 
 from the Bishop or his deputy; & that the Abbot 
 should further pay, for himself and convent, one 
 thousand marks. "The Bishop is then enjoined to 
 revoke, without any difficulty, all his censures 
 against the Abbot and convent ; to remit nine 
 hundred of the said marks ; the payment of the 
 remaining hundred marks tO be made by the 
 Abbot, to the Bishop or his proxy, in the cathe- 
 dral church, in equal portions, on the next fes- 
 tival days of Michaelmas and Easter; and, 
 with the exception of the discipline, excepts 
 
53 
 
 A. D. 
 
 discipline, the Bishop is directed to dispense 
 with the rest of the penance. 
 
 10. iVicAe^aus, confirmed Abbot 1 Jan. 1283-4 
 
 11. Zfewr^ occurs Abbot in 1312 
 
 12. /iFTtMeam, copfirmed Abbot 22. Sept. 1319 
 N. B. The following was his formula of obe- 
 dience to Bishop Stapeldon : — 
 
 " Ego frater Willelmus Abbas de Forda, sub- 
 jectionem, reverentiam & obedientiam a Sanctis 
 Patribus constitut am secundum regulam Sci 
 Benedieti, tibi, Domine Episcope, tuisque suc- 
 cessoribus canonice substituendis i& Sancte Sedi 
 Exon, salvo ordine meoj p^rpetab me exhibitu- 
 rum, promllto." 
 
 13. JpAn, admitted Abbot 24. June, " 1328 
 '14. ^«?a»», confirmed 29 September, 1354 
 
 N. B. After his profession of obedience to 
 Bishop Grandisson, "subspripsit signum crucis.' ' 
 
 15. CAytogfijfs occurs Abbot in Bishop Bran- 
 tyngha,m's Register, 1373 
 
 16. Walter BwrsfoA, confirmed 16. April, 1378 
 N. B. To his profession of obedience, " manA 
 
 ,suA subscripsit AmenJ" 
 
 This Walter was alive in 1411. 
 
 n ., Richard, I believe, was his successor. 
 
 18. Elyas occurs Abbot in 1462 
 
 19 William Whyte &pTp;eais as Ahhat. 1491 
 
 20. Thomas Charde, alias Tybbes, was the 
 last Abbot : he surrendered his convent 8. March 
 1539.— Vid. 2, B.Willis', Hist. Ab. p. 61. 
 
 Cleaveland informs us, p, 120. that he was 
 born at Tracy, in the parish of Auliscumbe, and 
 educated in St. Beriiard's, now St. John Baptist's, 
 College, at Oxford, and that he took the de- 
 gree of D. P, on the 2. Oct. 1605 : being styled 
 in the public re^isteir "Vir doctripa & virtute 
 darns." 
 
 I may; add, that he was made a titular or suf- * 
 -fragan iJishop, under the name of Episcopus So- 
 lubricensis, and became coadjutor to Bishop 
 Oldam. — See the Register. He was still alive 
 in 1643. 
 
 The following pensions were granted to the Reli- 
 gious, [2. May, 31, Hen.. VIII :— 
 
54 
 
 £ s. d. 
 To Thomas Chard, alias Tybbes, 
 
 the Abbot, S.T. P............. 80 
 
 Richard Exmestre, alias Were, 8 
 John Bridgewater, alias Stone, 8 
 
 W. Sherbnm, alias Bede 8 
 
 Eliseus Clestina, alias Potter, 7 
 
 Robert llminster 7 
 
 John Cosyns 6 13 4 
 
 William Green 6 6 8 
 
 Thomas Stafforde, alias Bate, 5 6 8 
 
 John Favvell 5 6 8 
 
 William Wynsor, alias Hyde... 6 € 6 
 William Donyngton, alias Wil- 
 
 teshere 6 
 
 Riohd. Kyngesbury, alias Sher- 
 man 6 
 
 The annual revenues of Ford Abbey amounted, 
 
 according to Dugdale, to £374 10 6i 
 
 According to Speed, to 381 lU 6 
 
 In various leases that I have seen, freqnetit men- 
 tion is made of their property in Burstok, Pay- 
 tiembury, Gharmouth, Toller Porcorum, Turneworth 
 and Strete. 
 
 The Taxatio contains the following particulars : — 
 
 ABBAS DE FORDE HABET. 
 
 £ s, A. 
 
 Manerium de Orchererd tax ad 5 6 8 
 
 ApudWestword .2 13 S 
 
 Apud Stoneberge :..., 2 13 4 
 
 Apud Brouygeshegquetax ad 14 2 
 
 De redd in dictis locis cu Mol 5 10 
 
 De exit Stauri «& pquisitis 2 
 
 Apud Colebrokde redd.. 2 
 
 Apud Thale que tax 4 16 8 
 
 Apud Lynton & Cuutebere que tax ad 5 10 
 
 Summa £31 4 4 
 
 Decime £3 2 4 
 
 The scite of this abbey was granted to Richard 
 
55 
 
 Pollard, Esq. A copy of the grant is given in the 
 appendix. Cm) Sir John, the son of this Richard, 
 alienated the same to Sir Aniias Paulet, whose father, 
 Sir Hugh Paulet, had been appointed head steward 
 of the abbey by the last Abbot, on 4. Mar. Hen. 
 VIII. with a pension of 100s. Sir Amias disposed 
 of it to William Roswell, Esq. from whose family it 
 passed to the Prideauxes. At present it is in posses- 
 sion of the Gwynnes. 
 
 The original common seal of the Cistercian Order- 
 in England and Wales, is still in existence, and in 
 perfect preservation. It is circular— has a church 
 engraven upon it, and bears a shield, containing the 
 arms of Bindon Abbey, in Dorsetshire. The in- 
 scription runs thus : — " Sigillu : coe : Capli : genalis : 
 Ordis: Cistercien: in: Angl; et : Wall;" 
 
56 
 
 *NEWENHAM ABBEY, 
 
 X HIS Cistercian abbey, situated near the river 
 Exe, and at a short distance from Axminster, was 
 founded by Reginald de Mohan, Earl of Somerset, 
 in honor of out Lady, a'bont the year 1246. Rictard 
 Blondy, Bisbop of Exeter, performed the -ceremony 
 of its dedication, and ranks as a leading benefactor 
 to the infant establishment. From Beaulieu, in the 
 New Forest, a monastery erected and endowed by 
 King Jchn, about forty years before, the Earl ob- 
 tained a colony of Cistearcian Monks, for his new 
 foundation. The charter of King Heary III. and 
 the list of benefactors, may be seen in 1. Dugd. 
 Monast. p. 93. 
 
 I believe the following to be an accurate list of the 
 Abbots : — 
 
 1. John 6o({e(arc2, instituted 6. January 1246 
 He resigned 4. April, 1248. 
 
 2. Henry de ^ershoU suooeeded twelve days 
 after. 
 
 He resigned 3. May, 1 263 
 
 8. John de Ponte Roberti succeeded, but 
 continued in office a few months only. 
 
 4. Galpidus deBlancheville, confirmed Abbot 
 before the end of 1253, and was Abbot nearly 
 nine years. 
 
 N. B. He entirely re-built the abbey church, 
 which, accordingto William of Worcester's Sur- 
 vey Ctemp. Hen. VI.J was two hundred feet long; 
 length of the transverse aisle one hundred and 
 fifty two feet ; length of the choir eighty feet. 
 
 * Q.— What were ihe arms of this Abbpy. 
 
57 
 
 6. Hugh de Cokeswell, elected his successor 
 14. June, 1262 
 
 He resigned three years after. 
 
 6. John de Northampton, next governed the 
 abbey, and resigned 11. September, 1272 
 
 7. William of Cornwall was chosen to suc- 
 ceed John ; but laid down his ofifice, after hold- 
 ing it sixteen years. 
 
 8. Richard de Chichester, elected Abbot 13. 
 September, 1,288 
 He was deposed 15. October, 1292 
 
 9. Richard de Pedirion, appointed his suc- 
 cessor 1 1 i November, that year. 
 
 He resigned 7. April, 1297 
 
 10. William de Frid was elected to succeed 
 
 him within a week after, and resigned in ■ 1303 
 
 11. Ralph de Shaperville was the next Abbot, 
 
 and resigned his office with his life in 1314 
 
 12. Robert de Pwppl6shury, was voted his 
 successor 30. Sept. same year. 
 
 He resigned 12. May, ' 1321 
 
 l^rJohn de Cokyswell succeeded on the 
 ensuing Feast of the Purification. 
 He vacated his office by death, 26. December, 1324 
 
 14. Johnde Geytingtone, instituted 17, of the 
 following March. 
 
 N. B. He was Abbot fourteen years, and 
 greatly improved his monastery. He', built the 
 cloister next to the infirmary and lavatory, and 
 began a new hall, which was finished by his suc- 
 cessor. 
 
 15. Waltre de la House, confirmed 31. May, 1338 
 
 16. Richard Bran6scombe, admitted 7. 
 March, 1361 
 
 17. John Legga, instituted 24. September, 1391 
 On which occasion, he subscribed to his pro- 
 fession of obedience to Bishop Brantyngham, 
 
 " hoc sigimm faciendo +." 
 
 18. Leonard HoundaUer. 
 
 19. Nicholas. Wysbech, confirmed 29.' Oct. 1413 
 
 20. Trystram CrttAej-Me, succeeded 27. July, 1432 
 21-/ William Hunieford, admiUed 7 . Seipt, 1456 
 22. John Ellys, instituted 23, July, 1512 
 
 F 
 
58 
 
 A. D. 
 
 S3. John Itminster, alias Ct^eU, admitted S. 
 August, 1525 
 
 g4. Richard Gyll, the last Abbq^, ponfirmed 
 in his dignity hy Bishop Veysey, 12. February. 1530 
 The following pensions were granted to the under- 
 written Religious, 6i May, 81. Hen. VIII. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 To Richard Gyll, Abbot, per an.. ..44 
 
 Richard Alforde 4 13 4 
 
 Wil. Westminster, alias Faute... 6 
 
 William Pede 5 6 8 
 
 Thomas White 6 6 8 
 
 Thomas Male 5 
 
 John Poper 5 
 
 John Pythe „ 4 14 4 
 
 The annual revenues of the abbey amounted to 
 £231. 14. 4. 
 
 In the Taxatio of King Edward I. is the following 
 statement of its property : — 
 
 ABB^IS DE NEWENHAM HABET 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Manerium de Axmenstr tax ad 12 8 4 
 
 Manerium de Plepent <& Northam in Cor- j 
 
 nubi& ., 13 12 
 
 Summa 26 4 
 
 Deeima 2 12 OJ 
 
 In several lieases before me, I observe frequent 
 mention is made of ceitain tenements lying in the 
 parishes of St. Lawrence and St. Mary Major, Exeter, 
 which belonged to this abbey. The Abbot's town- 
 house in Exeter, was nearly opposite St. John's 
 Hospital, in the eastern corner of the entrance from 
 Fore-street into Castle-street. Until very lately, the 
 remains of a magnificent building were observable 
 there. 
 
 In vol. 1. Grandisson's Register, fo. 4. it is stated, 
 that Pope Alexander IV. (between the years 1264 and 
 1261) appropriated to Newenham Abbey the ehurcfr 
 of Lovepit, or Luppit, in the deanery of Dunkeswell, 
 
69 
 
 From different psissages in the registers, it appears 
 that the abbey pretended a claim to the church of 
 Axminster, which was the cause of much litigation. 
 But the claim was protested against by the Rectors, 
 and rejected by the Bishops. .The living, at least 
 for a considerable period, was in the gift of the 
 Bishop : still, however, two Prebends in Axminster 
 Church, called Warthell and Greendale, belonged to 
 St. Peter's Church, in the city of York. Bishop 
 Stapeldon, in fo, 163. of his Register, acquaints lis, 
 that they had formerly been annexed to that cathe- 
 dral, by one of the KiiigJs of England. 
 
 Aiminster fair was held op the Vigil and on the 
 Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, as 1 find 
 in an ancient lease. The profits of this fair are re- 
 served by the Abbot to himself and his convent ; 
 but he leases out the profits of the market, (mercati 
 nostri de Axminstre) for the annual consideration of 
 tXs. 
 
 From a careful inspection of tbe ground, of the 
 ruins, and dismantled remains of this interesting 
 abbey, I think it easy to trace out the scite of the 
 church,* the chapter-house, and the cloister qua- 
 drangle. 
 
 In the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth the fee of the 
 abbey was granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. 
 His son, Lord William Howard, disposed of it to Sir 
 John Petre, who was created a Baron, 1. Jac. I. 
 In his family the possession still continues. 
 
 In (n) of the appendix, is copied the grant of an 
 annual pension to the collegiate church at Ottery, by 
 Walter Howse, the fifteenth Abbot of Newenham, 
 A, D. 1344. 
 
 * Amongst other great families who chose this sacred edifice for the place 
 of their interment, was the BonviU» family, of Shute. Sir William Bon- 
 ville's will, written in French, bearing date Satiirday before the Feast of the 
 Assumption, A. D. 1407, is preserved in Stafford's Register. He directs 
 bis body to be buried at Ne^enbam, and bequeaths to the Abbey £40. 
 
 F'2 
 
60 
 
 TOR ABBEY.* 
 
 fe>T. NORBERT founded the f Premonstratensian 
 Order, A. D. 1121. Soon after, a colony of his Reli- 
 gious came into England. Their first eslablishmeuf 
 was at Newhus, in Lincolnshire ; and in the space of 
 a century the piety of Englishmen provided fot na 
 fewer than thirty-two houses of this celebrated order. 
 
 Of all these houses, the one at Torre, dedicated 
 to the honor of the Holy Saviour, the Holy Trinity and 
 the Blessed Virgin, was undoubtedly the richest. It 
 was the noble foundation of William Lord Brewer, 
 a great counsellor of state in the reigns of Richard 
 and John. To the canons of this house, he granted, 
 A. D. 1196, the lands of Torre, where the church of 
 the Holy Saviour then stood ; also the free fishery of 
 Torbay, the church of Tor,{ and the town of Wopl- 
 borough, with the advowson of that church ; also 
 his lands at Grendall, and many other possessions 
 specified in the foundation deed, to be seen 2. Dugd. 
 Monast. p. 652. 
 
 Nothing can exceed the beautiful situation of this 
 great abbey; and If we may judge by the remains of 
 the church, of the chapter-house, and other buildings, 
 the magnificence of the fabric did honour to (he 
 situation. When Leland visited the abbey, three fair 
 gateways were standing.|| 
 
 * Arms. Gules » ClieVron between three Crosiers Or. 
 
 f So oiJled from the lonesome valley Premontre, in the dioce«e of Lnon, 
 where the saint -erected his first monnstery. His rule was very severe; 
 the use of linen was prohibited ; and perpetuul abstiuenco from flesh was 
 enjoined. 
 
 X Q. Is the parish church dedicnted to the Holy Siiviour .' The nncient 
 and eurioui chapel on the hill was dediontod to Si. Jlicharl, and nol (o out 
 Lady, as is sometimes asserted. Was it built by Reginald de Mohnn, 
 25. Hen. III. ?— Vid. 2. Dugd.Monast. p. 654. • 
 
 11 One gateway remains. The arms of the Brewers.', Mohuns', Spekes, 
 and of the Abbey, appear in the Arch. 
 
61 
 
 The chuich was richly furnished with cloth of gold, 
 "with copes and other ecclesiastical ornaments, as 
 appears from Bishop Grahdisson's letter, in vol. 1. 
 ■of his Register, fo. 56. " pannis aureis & capis," &c. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph Reeve, in his classical poem, en- 
 titled Ugbrbdke ParR, has thus described the present 
 state of the abbey, in thfe glowing language of poetry, 
 and with the feelings of a Christian pliilosqplier. 
 
 Though hallowed mitres glitter here no inoi'e, 
 The friendly abbey still sSorus the shore : 
 Hei-e meek religion's ancient temple rose, 
 How great, how fallen, the monrpful rui» shews. 
 Of sacrilege, behold, what heaps appeal- ! 
 Nor blush to drop the tributaty tear. 
 Here stood the font — here on high'columns rais'd, 
 I The dome extendedr-there the altar blaz'd 
 The shatter'd aisles, with clust'ring ivy hung. 
 The yawning arch in rude confusion flung : 
 Sad striking remnants of a former age, 
 To pity' now might melt the spoiler's' rage ! 
 Lo sunk to rest, the wearied vot'ry sleeps, 
 While o'er, his urn the gloomy cypress weeps. 
 Here silent pause — here draw the pensive sigh — 
 Here musing learn to live,' here learn, to die ! ! ! 
 
 I fear- it is hnpossible to recover the complete 
 series of the Abbots. Browne Willis, 2. Hist. Abb; 
 p. 65. informs us, that the first Abbot's name w&sAdam. 
 In the agreement with Reginald de Mohun, A. D. 
 1S51. Simon occurs Abbot, lb. p. 654. From the regis- 
 ters of the See- of Exeter I collect the names of the 
 ' fourteen following: — 
 
 A. D . 
 
 1. BWanus, confirmed Abbot by Bishop Bro- 
 nescombe, on Whit-Sunday, 1264 
 
 2. Richard, admitted by the same Bishop on 
 Ascension-day, 1270 
 
 3.. Simon de Plynvpton, instituted by Bishop 
 Grandisson -7. -September, 1330 
 
 4. JoA«, confirmed 21. May, l^'^^ 
 
 5. John Cras succeeded 6. December, 1351 
 N. B. Comparel.Grandisson's Regist. fo. 109. 
 
 withfo. 161. 
 
 6. Richard, the date of whose institution I 
 jhave iiotyei discovered, 
 
 f3 
 
63 
 
 A. D. 
 
 7. John Berkedene occurs in 1372 
 
 8. William Norton, confirmed 27. July, 1382 
 N. B. This exemplary Abbot was maliciously 
 
 charged with having murdered and beheaded 
 Simon Hastings, a Canon of the abbey. Bishop 
 Brantyngham, on 14. August, ISdO, pronounced 
 the accusation to be a most infamous falsehood. 
 He declares, that the Canon, said to be mur-. 
 dered and beheaded, was then actually alive. 
 fie bears the strongest testimony to th^ irre- 
 proachable character of the Abbot, and issues 
 the sentence of excommunication against his 
 defamers. Vid. 1. Regist. fo. 211. 
 
 9. Matthew Yerde, succeeded 19. July, 1412 
 
 10. WiUiam Mychel, confirmed 19. March, 1413-4 
 
 11. John httcey, instituted 31. January, 1442 
 
 12. Bichard Cade occurs Abbot in . 1463 
 
 13. Thomas Dyare 6ccurs in 1502 
 
 14. Simon Bede, elected and confirmed in 
 August, 1523 
 
 This was the last Abbot, and he surrendered his 
 monastery, with fifteen of his Religious, 23. Feb. 
 1 639 . Ill may judge from the tenor of several 
 of bis lejise^ he calculated on the speedy dis- 
 se>tu,tion of the abbey, and was not unmindful 
 of bla own interests. 
 He \vas still alive in 1553. 
 
 The following p^i^eions were granted 25. April, 3J. 
 Hen.VIIL— 
 
 £ 
 To Simon Rede, the Abbot, pr. an. 66 
 
 Richard Bfylton , 7 
 
 John Asterege 6 
 
 Henry Bagwell 6 
 
 John Shapeley 4 
 
 John Lane 4 
 
 John WyU 6 
 
 Thomas Jamys , 5 
 
 Thomas Lawdymere... 6 
 
 Thomas Clement 6 
 
 John Payne 6 
 
 Thomas Brygeman 2 
 
 TbomasJSmet g 
 
 8. 
 
 d. 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 p 
 
63 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 John Fferirief „ ;.. 2 
 
 Thomas Kflblle 2 
 
 Richard Yong 2 
 
 The annual revenues of the abbey amounted to 
 ifi896. 0. 11. 
 
 In the Taxatio of Edwtird I. I meet with the fol- 
 lowing statement : — 
 
 J^BBAS PE -TORRE HABET 
 
 ^ s. d. 
 
 Apud WoUebtitrgli que tax i...».... 4 4 8 
 
 Tunstall & Aueton , 3 13 4 
 
 Apad Fflede H 8 
 
 Apud Helgrug de Redd...... 10 
 
 Apnd Gormiugefston <.....»..... ^.. ^00 
 
 Apud Grendell i. 3 1 
 
 Apnd Shillingfoifd , 2 4 8 
 
 Apud Dabeeombe ..^ ,.....« 2 15 
 
 Apud Ilesham > 1 15 
 
 Apud Coleton .» 1 5 
 
 ^amma ^23 11 
 
 Declma ^2 7 1 
 
 In numerous leases, granted by this abbey, I 
 observe, mention is made of the manors of Torre, 
 Woolborough, Daloeomb^, Buckland Brewer, Ayshe- 
 clyst, Shyllingfoird, Blakeaotpn, and Grendal. They 
 had also possessions in Kingsware, Newton Abbot, 
 Danrtmontb, Coleton, Ilsham, &e. ; and preseutied to 
 the churches oif Coefcington, Tunstall-, Tor, Brade- 
 worthyj Boclond Brewer^ Sc^ftsbeare, Hanok, 
 Scytesbrok, Blakeauton, the Ghapel of Pancras 
 Weke, arid others. 
 
 In 3. Grandisson's Register, fp. 166, 1 readj " JPre- 
 benda Abbatis & ConventAs de Torre in Castro Exon 
 taxatur ad £6 13 4." This Prebend was called 
 Ashclyst, and was granted to the aiibey by Robert 
 Viscount Courtenay, who died 26. July, 1242. 
 
 The Abbot's house in Exeter was in St.Paul's-street. 
 The tenement was bounded by the city walls, and 
 
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 perhaps was the very spot called " Athelstans," now 
 occupied by Mr. Granger's cellars. I find the last 
 Abbot leased out his premises a few months before 
 the suppression of the monastery, to Geffery Holmere, 
 for a term of sixty-three years. But the tenant is 
 required to lodge the said Abbott " at ?uch tyme 
 that he comyth to the said Cytye of Excett' and his 
 servants, as long as it shall plese hym in the said 
 tenement, at the coste and charge of the said Geffery." 
 
 Dr. Tanner, in the Notitla Monastica, asserts, 
 that the soite of the abbey was granted by the Crown 
 to Sir John St. Leger, in the 85. Hen. VIII. Sir 
 William Pole, on the other baiid, maintains, p. 
 272. of his Collections, (a work, by the bye, more 
 inaccurate than is generally imagined) that it was pur- 
 chased at the Dissolution by Edward Seymour, Duke 
 of Somerset, and was g^ven by him to his eldest son 
 Edward, whose son, Sir Edward, sold the same unto 
 Sir Thomas Ridgewaiy, afterwards Earl of London- 
 derry. The following statement, collected from 
 authentic documents, may be depended upon : — 
 
 King Henry VIII. by letters patent, dated 20. Jan. 
 34th year of his reign, granted to John St. Leger, 
 Esq. the dissolved monastery of Tor. John St. 
 Leger, by deed, dated 14. June, 36. Hen. VIII. granted 
 it to Sir Hugh Pollard. Hugh Pollard, grandson of 
 the said Sir Hugh, by deed, dated 2. April, 22. Eliz. 
 granted it to Sir Edward Seymour, Knight. Edward 
 •Seymour, son and heir of the said Sir Edward, by 
 deed, dated 18. Nov. 41. Eliz. sold it to Thomas 
 Ridgway, Esq. ancestor of the Ridgways, after- 
 wards Earls' of Londonderry, with whom it re- 
 mained until the year 1 653 or 1 654, when it was sold 
 to John Stowell, Esq. from whom it was purchased 
 in 1662, by Sir George Cary. 
 
 In this ancient land respectable ffunily,^ the abbey 
 
 * Amongst the illustrious persons produced in this family, we may be 
 rilowed to mention the two Prelates which it has given to the See of 
 ISxster, The first is James Cary, wha yras prongioted by Pope Martin V. 
 20. Nov. 1 419, to the See of Exeter. He died,' however, 28. Pec. that year, 
 aqd was buried at Florence.— The other was Valentino Cary, Dean of 
 St. Paul'SjS. T.P . and President of Christ's College, Cambridge, made Bishop 
 of Exeter 18. Nov. 1621, died 10. June, 1UZ6, <!!:,is said to have beep burieiji 
 /mthe S.part of the choir of St, Paul's, I'Ondon, 
 
m 
 
 -sMH continues ; and the wri tar joins in the fervent 
 -wish of the poet J 
 
 Stet-^fortuna domAs & avi numerentur avorum. 
 
 Exfo. 150. Regintri Edmundi Stafford olitn Exonlen 
 Episcopi. 
 
 Deeimo octavo, die mensis Marcii A. D. 141 o; 
 apud Clyst, Dnus recepit Uteras infrascriptas sub 
 tenore qui sequitur verborum. 
 
 Reverendd in Xto Patri & Dno Dno Edmundo, 
 permissione Diving Exon Eposuus humilis & devotus 
 frater Johes, Dei patientifi. Abbas Ecelesie de Welle- 
 1)ek, (in Nottinghamshire,) ordinis Premonstratensisi, 
 reverenoiam tanto Patri debitam cum honore. 
 
 Venerabi^em fratrem nostrum; fratrem Willelmum 
 Mychel Ecelesie de Torre, nostri Ordinis & vestre 
 Diocesis Canonicum, in Patrem & Pastorem ejusdem 
 Ecelesie nunc vaeantis, per fratres ejusdem Ecelesie, 
 .rite & canonice secundum Ordinis nri Instituta elec- 
 tum & h nobis (ad quern, tanquam Patrem Abbatem 
 illius Monasterii, auctoritate Sedis Apostolice Ordini 
 nostro in hAc parte graciose conoessd ipsius confir- 
 macio dignoscitur pertinere) prout ejusdem nostri 
 Ordinis moris est, eonfirmatum, Vestre Paternitati 
 Reverende presentamus per presentes, si vobis pleni- 
 tudinem sui officii plenarie recepturum, supplicantes 
 Domlnationem vestram humiliter & devote, ut cum 
 ddem electus & confirmatus, ut premittitur, ad vos 
 cum presentibus declinaverit, - munus benedietionis 
 vestro impertiri dignemini graciose. In quorum 
 omnium testimonium & fidem presentes literas sigillo 
 nostro signatas vestre Reverende Paternitati duximus 
 presentandas. Conservet vos Altissimus ad regimen 
 Ecelesie sue sancte per teraporadiuturna. Datum in 
 dicta EcelesiA de Torre die decimA mensis Marcii 
 A.-D. 1413. 
 
 Et subsequenter eodem die Dous in eapellA manerii 
 sui de Clyst predicti, eidem Willo Abbati electo & 
 confirmato, more solito, munus benedietionis impen- 
 dit, prestitA primitfis Dno per eundem Abbatem obe- 
 4ieutiA sub formd que sequitur in hec verba. 
 
66 
 
 Ego Willelmns Mychel, Monasterii de Torre, 
 ordinis Premonstratensis Exoniensis Diocesis, Abbas 
 electus & juxla regulam Sci AugustJni Conflrmafus, 
 profiteer Sancte Ecclesie Exoniensi & tibi, Reverende 
 Pater Edmunde, Dei gfati^, ejusdem Ecclesie Epis- 
 copo, tnisque Successoribns in ek canonice substitu- 
 endis, in omnibus canonicam obedlentiam & subjec- 
 tionem. 
 
67 
 
 BUCKFASTLEIGH.* 
 
 J. HE g^reat Cistercian Abbey at Buckfastleigb, or 
 Buckfastre, was founded in the year 1137, by Ethel- 
 werld, the son of Wm. Pomerei, in honor of the Virgin 
 Mary. King Henry II. was a friend and benefactor to 
 the infant establishment. A charter of this Monarch, 
 in its favor, may be seen in the Monastiobn, attested by 
 the Primate Theobald, and by the Chancellor Thomas 
 a Becket, afterwards the martyred Archbishop of 
 Canterbury. 
 
 The following names of the Abbots are all that I 
 can recover : — A. D, 
 
 1. fF'iUiam, occurs as Abbot in the founda- 
 tion deed of Tor- Abbey, temp. Rich. I. 
 
 2. Robert, confirmed 7. July, 1280 
 
 3. Peter occurs Abbot in 1306 
 
 4. Robert occurs in 1314 
 
 5. Stephen was instituted 24. June, 1328 
 
 6. John de Churstowe, succeeded 1. Nov. 1332 
 
 7. William Giffard, confirmed 6. June, 1333 
 
 8. Philip, admitted 21. May, 1349 
 
 9. Robert Simon, occurs in 1373 
 I believe Robert Simon conducted and succeeded 
 
 in a valuable cause of the fishery of the river Dart, at 
 Buckfastleigb, against Dean Sumpter and the Chapter 
 of Exeter Cathedral. 
 
 I have perused the exemplification of the record 
 under the great seal, dated 16. Nov. 60. Edward III. 
 
 10. William Slade, who distinguished himself 
 by his works, entitled Flores Moralium. Ques- 
 tiones de AnimS. Questiones super 4. lib. senten- 
 tiaru. &c. 
 
 * Arms, Sable, a Crosier in pale Arg. the crook Or, surmounted by a 
 Stag's head caboshed of the second, horned Gules. 
 
A. D. 
 
 Jl. ^riWawi Be«^Ae, confirmed 8. Sepf. ]4ir» 
 
 =12. Thomas Rogger, admitted IS. AprW, 1432 
 
 18. John Fftjchet succeeded 16. Oct. J 440 
 
 14. JoArt iVIaW/iM, confiimedS. Oct. . 1449 
 
 15. Jo/m Berfe occurs as Abbot in 1503 
 
 16. Alfridus Gille, confirmed on Palm Sun- 
 -day, 4. April, 1512 
 
 17. Gabriel Donne, or Dunne, who surren- 
 -dered his monastery 26. Feb. ' 153i8 
 
 Probably this Abbot was particularly obse- 
 quious to the views of the Court, as he obtained 
 a greater annuity than even the Abbot of Tavis- 
 tock. 
 
 The following annuities were granted 26. April, 
 31. Hen. YllL— 
 
 £. s. d. 
 To Gabriel Dunne, the Abbot ...120 
 
 John Dqgge 6 13 4 
 
 John Cowle 6 
 
 Matthew Preston ..., 6 6 8 
 
 Richard Splate 5 6 8 
 
 W.illiam Shapter 6 S' 8 
 
 John Watts 6 6.8 
 
 William Avery... 5 6 8 
 
 Richard Taylor 6 6 8 
 
 Thomas Gylle 5 
 
 The yeady income of the abbey is xated by Dug- 
 dale, at £466. 11. 2|. 
 
 In the TaxatiOj so often referred to,, I read as 
 follows : — 
 
 £. s, d. 
 Abbas de Bucfeslre percipit per annu de 
 
 ecclesia de Downe 2 
 
 In eceifi. de Sele,(Monachorum) , 2 13 4 
 
 De eccid de Churchstowe IS 4 
 
 Abbas de Buckefestre -habet 
 
 Maner de Brent que tax ad ,, 9 15 4 
 
 Maner de Northam tax 6 6 8 
 
 Buckfastre 4 3 4 
 
 Hethfelde 4 8 
 
 Apud Ratekescurgh 2 13 U 
 
 Apud Padrielcstone 2 4 8 
 
 Apud Sele g 9 ^ 
 
63 
 
 Apud ryouno • 3 10 0' 
 
 Apud Trlssure 1 15 8 
 
 Apud Robiok & Tynden 8 o 
 
 In various leases that I have met with, I find men- 
 tion of their manors of Kingsbridge and Harberton. 
 
 The abbey had also some property in the town^ 
 and near the bridge^ of Totnes. 
 
 The town-house of the Abbot in Exeter, was in 
 the Close, surrounded on three skies by the archdea- 
 conry houses of Barnstaple, and Totnes,. and Gornwall, 
 and by letters patent of 28. Sept. 37th Hen. VIII. was 
 granted to George RoUe, in whose family it continued 
 till the time of Henry (afterwards Lord) Rolle, who, 
 in 1737, sold it to the Rev. Thomas Heskett, and it 
 is now the property of James Rodd, Esq. The soite 
 of Buclifastre Abbey was granted, 31. Hen. VIII. to 
 Sir Thomas Dennis,* of Holcombe Burnell, in the 
 county of Devon. 
 
 Dr. William Petre, afterwards Sir William Petre, 
 procured a considerable share of the manors apper- 
 taining to this abbey. And, what is singular, he ob- 
 tained of Pope Paul IV. 28. Deo. A. D. 1555, a con- 
 firmation of this property. This gentleman was 
 " appointed in the 27th year of Henry VIII. one of 
 the commissioners to repair unto all the monasteries 
 of England, and to make inquiry into the govern- 
 
 * The conduct of this gentleman is certainly open to suspicion — he ap- 
 pears to have played a double game — to have accommodated himself to 
 every w^sh of the Court, and to have intrigued himself into the favor and 
 confidence of" the religious houses in Devonsliire. .From- many of these 
 communities, I observe, he bad procured the stewardship for himself, and 
 the reversion of itforhisson Robert; from most, he had secured annuities for 
 very valuable advice *'pro bono consilio nobis impenso <fe in posterum 
 - impendendo ;" and he contrived to obtain' aconfir.mation of these annuities 
 from the court of Augmentation of the crown revenues. In the scramble for 
 religions property, he was one of the keenest and most successful com- 
 petitors. He succeeded in obtaining the scite of Buckfastleigh. Abbey, 
 the scite of St. Nicholas' Priory, Exeter ;. the Park, at Crediton, belonging 
 to the Bishops of Exeter, with four water mills, and a marsh, containing 
 two hundred acres — a property, for which this covetous man was not ashamed 
 to petition the Crown. His royal master, 6. Feb. 31st year of his reign, 
 further rewarded him with the manors of Lyttleham and Exmoulh,' whicli 
 had lately belonged to the monastery of Sherburn, in the county of Dorset — 
 with the messuage situate in Baynard Castle Ward, London, formerly 
 the property of the Cistercian Monastery of Croxdon, in Staffordshire ; 
 also, with the Hundred of East Budleigh, which had been grasped by the 
 Crown, in consequence of the iniquitous and unjustifiable attainder of 
 Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter. If the mammon of iniquity couldl 
 sonfer happiness, this very rich man must have been supremely happy. 
 
70 
 
 meut and behaviour of the votaries Of both sexes, 
 that their enormities might be discovered, or rather 
 that their houses might be dissolved, and their lands 
 confiscated." { That he was a time serving politician, 
 and callous to moral and religions principles, when 
 his interest was concerned, it would be folly to deny. 
 But still he is much to be commended for his grate- 
 ful attachment to Exeter College, in Oxford, where 
 he had received his education ; as also for his resolu- 
 tion to resign all rectories, or appropriated tithes and 
 glebes, to Iheir first spiritual uses ; and for his lUadi- 
 ness to make immediate restitution for that purpose. 
 
 , ' ' ' • ' 
 
 { See Bisbop Wliite Kennet's Paroohial Antiquities, p. 6T 1 . a woric most 
 admirable for its perspicuity, candour, and elaborate researcli. 
 
-71 
 
 BIJCKL4ND ABBEY.* 
 
 J. HIS abbey, seated on the Eastern banks of the 
 Tavy, was founded id honor of our Ladjf and St. 
 Benedict, in the year 1278, by Amicia, Countess of 
 Derop. For this new' foundation she obtained a 
 colony of Cistercian monks, from Quarrer, in the Isle 
 of Wight. These Religious, without the previous 
 licence and approbation of Walter Bronescombe, the 
 Bishop of Exeter, presumed to celebrate mass, and to 
 exercise their functions. The Bishop resented this 
 trespass on his diocesan jurisdiction, and subjected 
 the community to excommunication and suspension. 
 But he soon relieved them from this penalty, at the 
 solicitation of the Queen Eleanor. — Vid. fo. 96-97. 
 Reg. Bronescombe. 
 
 t. Walterus, Dei gr&, Exon Epus dilecto filio 
 Officiario suo, 'salutem, gratiam & benedictionem. 
 Cum ad instanciam & peticionem Serenissime Dne, 
 Dne Aleanore Regine Anglie, dudum vobis scripse- 
 rimus, ut suspensionis sen interdicti seutentias in 
 Monachos de Boclond Cystercien. Oidinis, sen loea 
 sua, pro eo quod iidem Monachi in Diocesi Nostra 
 absque auctoritate nestrd sen lioentiA, Divina cele- 
 brare presumpsei?unt, latas sen promulgatas relax- 
 aretis,- permittentes eosdem Divina celebrare, usque 
 ad festum Pentecostis, ut quousque cum dictk DnA 
 nr&Reg}n4 colloquium haberemns personale ; ejusdem 
 Due nostre precibus fterum inclinati, vobis mandamus, 
 quatenus eosdem Monachos usque ad quindenam 
 Sci Michaelis proxime venturi Divina ibidem libere 
 
 • Arms, Quarterly Argent & Gqles, a Crosier, in bend, Or. 
 
72 
 
 celebrare permiltatis, ullam nemini eorum inferenfes^ 
 molestiam vel grq.vamen. Dafuin London, G. Kal. 
 Junii, A. D. 1280. 
 
 II. Unlversis &c. Walterus, &c. miseracione DivinS 
 Exon Epus. Ad unlversitatis vestre notitiam volumus 
 pefvenire, qnod nos Interdictum factum in AbbaciA 
 de Boclond, nostre Diocesis de novo fandatA, tenore 
 piesencium relaxamus ; & ooncedimus quod Abbas & 
 Monachi Cygterciensis Ordinis ibidem oommorantes 
 Divina ibidem licite celebrare & que Ordinis Cis-^ 
 terciensis, sunt, secundum regulam Sci Benedioti 
 Itbere exercere valeant, jure, honore & dignitate 
 Episcopali & Ecclesie Exon, In omnibus semper 
 salvis. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum 
 presentibus fecimus appoui. Datum apiid Teynton* 
 Episcopi, in festo Beate Marie Magdalene A. D. 
 ]280, & Consecrationis nostre gg". 
 
 I regret that I cannot present the reader with the 
 regular succession of the Abbots of Buckland. — Tbe 
 fallowing names and institutions are extracted from 
 the Registers : — 
 
 A. D, 
 
 1. Gdlfridus occurs Abbot A, D. 13Q4 
 
 2. T/iowas occurs in 1311 
 3 Thomas ff^appelegh occurs in 1373^ 
 
 4. John Bryton, admitted 1. Aug. 1385 
 
 5. John Spore, confirmed 28. Sept. • 1449 
 
 6. John i/y«e, admitted 16. Oct. 1453 
 
 7. Thomas OJyver succeeded 20. March, 146| 
 
 8. John Jirundon followed. 
 
 9. Thomas TVhyt^, was the next Abbot, and 
 
 was alive in 1 527 
 
 John Tolcer, or Tucker, was the last Abbot. 
 The yearly revenues of Buckland Abbey were 
 
 valued at £241. 17. 9^. ; though some have rated 
 
 Ihera as high as £34 1 per annum. 
 
 £ s. d 
 
 Abbas de Bocclond habet Manerium de 
 
 Boclond 16 2 8 
 
 ' It is very cerUiin, that the Bishops of Exeter had n palace at Bishop's 
 Teignion, long before tijo time of Grandisson. In the early part of his 
 Episcopacy, lie sliitcs to Pope Tolin XXII. the existence of piilora edificia 
 at Bishop's Teignton ; Imt does not insinuate that he had erected ihem 
 
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 £. s. d. 
 
 Bykeley ; .V 6 KL.-S 
 
 Woloampton, & in Dertemer 6 10 cS 
 
 Colofnpton que tax ad 9 15 4 
 
 Apud Wykecombe tax 13 ^ 
 
 Summa £39 13 8 
 
 Decima £2 13 H 
 
 This Abbey had also very considerable property 
 in B'ampton. 
 
 The following pensions were granted to the Reli- 
 gious, 28. April, 31. Hen. VIII. :— 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 To John Toker, Abbot 60 
 
 Thomas Maynard 5 6 8 
 
 William Gye '. 5 
 
 Thomas Hooper 5 -0 
 
 Robert Toope 5 6-8 
 
 John West 5 •« 
 
 William Alford ^.-5 
 
 Hugo Harvey 4 13 -4 
 
 Benedict Lovedge , 4 13 4 
 
 Simon Rugewaye 4 
 
 William Myllford 4 
 
 William Ebbesworth 3 6 8 
 
 John Joidan 3 6 8 
 
 Sir William Pole, in p. 337. of his ColJ«ctians, 
 mistakes the order of the occupants of this dissolved 
 monastery. The scite then was first granted 33. Hen. 
 VIII. to Richard Greynfeld, and " four years after" 
 if was conveyed to " Richard" Crymes, of London. 
 In the time of Queen Elizabeth, it was purchased by 
 Sir Francis Drake, in a descendant of wiiose family it 
 still continues. 
 
 I have seen an indenture made between the Abbot, 
 Thomas White, and Robert Derkeham, organist. 
 It is dated 38. May, 1622. The Abbot engages 
 to pay Robert an annuity of £2. 13. 4 ; to pro- 
 vide him a decent table ; to allow a furnished 
 iToom over the West gate of the monastery, and a 
 
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74 
 
 gowd, every year, of the value of 12s. He further 
 &Dg&ges to Robert the reversion of a tenement at 
 Miltoin,' then occupied by Johil Brooke ; and, in the 
 mean Tvhile, to provide a detent dwelling-house 
 garden, the moiety of the rent to be paid by Robert 
 Derkeb^tii, who is ho*«fever to have the feeding . of 
 two cows, until he obtains possession of John Brooke's 
 tenement. Robert is also to be allowed five ounces of 
 bread and a quart of beer every night throughout the 
 year 5 a wax candle from 1. Nov. until 2. Feb. ; and 
 thirty horse-loads of faggots for his fire. In consi- 
 deration of all this, the said Robert is to assist in 
 the choir every day during divine service, and to 
 teach four boys of the convent, any one of whom he 
 may choose, to wait upon him as his servant. He 
 further engages to instruct the boys, and those monks 
 who may wish to learn, in the art of music and 
 playing the organ. 
 
 N. B. This indenture was admitted and allowed 
 
 by the Augihentation Court, 18. JDec. 1640. 
 
 The editor of " the Beauties of Engidtld/' vol. 4. 
 
 p. 14. Art. Devon, remarks, that the Abbey of 
 
 Bucland is said to have planted thfe earliest brchards 
 
 in the cDunty. 
 
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 DUNKESWELL ABBEY.* 
 
 J. HIS Cistercian abbey, near Honiton, was founded 
 in the year 1201, by William Lord Brewer, who has 
 been already mentio-ned as the father and founder of ■ 
 the bouses of Tor and Polslo. The conventual 
 crhurch of Dunkeswell he chose for the placfe of his 
 interment. 
 
 Of the history of this abbey vfei-y Httle can be 
 gleained from the registers of the See' of Exeter. 
 The following names of the Abbots arc al that I can 
 recover: — 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1. Thomas, whom I meet in an Indenture 
 dated 29. Sept. 1253 
 
 2. John, who became Abbot 17. Oct. 1311 
 
 3. ^iVZiam, confirmed on Palm Sunda'y, 1318 
 
 4. ^*7/iaM» rfe /S/«»te^e, admitted 8. Sept. 1321 
 
 5. John succeeded 
 
 6. Simon followed 22. Feb. ' 1341 
 
 7. William Wedtmore, confirmed 7. Apfil, 1353 
 
 8. Alexander Burlescombe,AAtain^A Kixg. 1397 
 
 9. JBtcAar^Ii«»i/)0»-if succeeded 17. July, 139$ 
 
 10. JoM JBo^etowd, admitted 10. June, I'4'IO 
 
 11. JoAn tto^-y, eonfii-med 26. April, 143'^ 
 
 12. StmoM succeeded 13. Feb. iMt 
 
 13. Thomas ButUort, Occurs Abbot in sev-6ral 1'47S 
 leases from 1478 to 1486' 
 
 14. Uichdrd Pytm^steY, ocextrs in a leasfe 
 dated 1. Sept. .149# 
 
 ^5. John Whitmote, is a pArty to a covenant 
 dated 6. July, l!5(D& 
 
 16. John hey, the last Abbot, was confirmed 
 23. June, 1'52& 
 
 *Ai>ins. Two Beads.wav7 ; as appears from a seal in' the AngV'lQiite'ti^ 
 (Office. N. K. These are the arms of the founder. 
 
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 At the dissolution of the abbey the following 
 Religious obtained the grant of pensions IS. May, 
 1640:— £ s. d. 
 
 To John Ley, the Abbot 60 
 
 John Webbe 6 
 
 William Boreman 6 
 
 John Seger 6 6 8 
 
 John Gennyngs 4 13 4 
 
 Thomas Typson 4 13 4 
 
 John Benette 4 13 4 
 
 The yearly revenues were, as I )ugdale says,,£294. 18.6 
 
 According to Speed £298. 11. 10 
 
 In numerous indentures and leases still extant, I 
 observe frequent mention is made of their manors of 
 Hackepen, Broadhembry, Shildon, Shabbecombe, 
 Bolham, Bowerhays, Wolveston, Auliscombe, Weryn- 
 stone, Ugston, WoUfarwchurche and Old Dunkes- 
 well. The abbey had property also in the parishes 
 of Coleton Rawleigh, Payhembry, UfFculm, Kenlis- 
 bere Dodington and Honiton. 
 
 In Exeter, a house and garden, situate in St. Paul's 
 parish, belonged to the abbey, and which, I think, 
 was the Abbot's town-house. 
 Fj.om the Taxatio, — 
 
 ABBAS DE DONKESWELL HABET 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Maoerium de Wolfrechurche tax ad 6 16 
 
 Apud Wywode que tax ad ^ 6 
 
 Apud Bourheye & Stentwode 4 10 
 
 Apud Aylescombe „,..,, 2 8 
 
 Dookeswell de redd que tax ad 2 4 
 
 SbUden ,.., 4 4 
 
 ApudlaHydon ...,..,.,..., 1 10 
 
 Lovepute 1 16 8 
 
 Apud Upotry ,....,,....,..., 4 
 
 Manerium de Hembiri JO 
 
 ApudHugheton ,., 16 
 
 Apud Wyngeston 1 10 
 
 Apud Sengetil ,..,. 2 
 
 Apud Hankelonde 3 14 
 
 Apud Dodeton 1 19 
 
 JVIanerium de Hakepenne , 7 3 4 
 
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 £. s. d. 
 
 Manerium de Buclonde& Bruer 7 8 
 
 Mauerium deLynecombe. 7 12 
 
 Summa £64 12 
 
 Decima £6 9 2 
 
 N. B. This calculation is not correct. 
 
 1 observe that Bishop Bronescombe dedicated 
 the parish church of Dunkeswell, in Vigili& Sei 
 Nichi 1260. The benelice had been appropriated 
 to the abbey eighteen years before, by Bishop Brewer, 
 as-fippears from Regist. Bronescombe, fo. 19. 
 
 " Omnibus see Matris Eclesie filiis ad quos pre- 
 sentes Htere perveneriht Willelmus miseracione 
 divind Exon Epus, salutem in Dno eternam. Noverit 
 universitas vestra, quod considerate cotidiansL hospi- 
 talitate, quam in domo Beate Marie de Donel<ewell 
 (ultra quam facultates ipsius domAs suppetunt) vide- 
 antur devote exercere, de consensu & voluntate 
 dilectorum filiorum Decani & Capituli Exon, eccle- 
 siamde Donekewell Paroehialem cumoibs pertinenciis 
 suis que a;d patronatum Abbatis & ConventAs diote 
 domfis pertlnere dignosoitur. Divine caritatis intuitu 
 in Augmentum- HospitalUatis ejasdem, misericorditer 
 duximus concedendam & in proprios usus imppetuum 
 confirmandam. Et quia Abbacia de Donekewell 
 infra limites Parochie dicte Eclesie sita est, volumus 
 ut eandem per honestum capellanum imppetuum faciat 
 deserviri. Volumus et, ut dictis Abbati & Conventui 
 occasione dicte eclesie, cum tenore privilegiorum,suo- 
 rum nihil servitutis accrescat. In hujus rei testimonium 
 presenti scripto siglllum nostrum apponi fecimus. 
 Datum apud Cerde II. Kal.Octob. an gratie MCCXLII." 
 
 In the letters patent of Henry VIII. dated 4. July, 
 1546, in which that Monarch bestowed on Lord John 
 Russell so great a proportion of abbey and church 
 lands, situate in the county of Devon, the grant of 
 Dunkeswell forms a distinguishing feature. It is 
 therefore unaccountable that Sir William Pole should 
 positively pronounce, p. 203 of his Collections, " that 
 the abbey of Dunkeswell continued in the Crown, 
 until King James I. added it unto the revenue of 
 
78 
 
 !the Duchy of Cornwajl." This egregious njistjilte 
 yt'ilj be sufiiciently exposed by quoting the Wior,^ of 
 the letters patent. 
 
 " Ingaper ex ijberiore gra nr& special! & ex certfi 
 scientid & mero motu nostris damus & pro conside- 
 fatfone predict^ per presentes pro Nobis, Heredibus 
 & Succesoribus nostris concedimus prefato Johanni 
 Russell, Mititi, Baroni BusSell, totam domuin & scitum 
 nuper Monasterii sive Abbathie B. Marie Virginis de 
 Dunkyswell in dioto Comitate nostro Devon inodo 
 dissolut-, ao 4otam ecolesiam, companile ac cemite- 
 rium ejusdem nuper Monasterii ac omnia messuagia, 
 domos, edificia, grangias, orrea, stabula, columbaria, 
 stagna, vivaria, ortos, pomaria, gardina, terram <& 
 solum nostra, tarn infjra quam extra scitum, septumi 
 ambitum, cireuitum & preeinctum ejusdem nuper 
 Monasterii, de Dunkyswell existentia, ac molendinum 
 nostrum aquaticum, duo gardina & quatuor curti- 
 lagia cum pertinenoiis in Olde Dunkyswell in dicto 
 comitate nostro Devon, que dicto nuper Monasterio 
 de Dunkyswell spectabant sive peitinebant." 
 
 Then follows an enumeration of various parcels of 
 land, comprehending about sixteen hundred acres, 
 besides other property belonging to the abbey, whloh 
 the King bestows on Baron Russell, together with 
 the advowson, patronage and appropriation of the 
 parish churches of Old Dunkeswell, Auliscorabe,, 
 and of a free chapel there. 
 
79 
 
 HARTLAND ABBEV* 
 
 J^T. Necitaii, sotuetinaes caMed St. Nyghton, the 
 patrou Saiat of Hartland Abbey, was of royal Welsh 
 extraction. Leland calls him a Martyr, and says, 
 4. Collectanea p. 153, *bat he was buried at Hdrt- 
 land. When the Saint lived, and how and by whom 
 martyred, I have not ibeen able to discover. 
 
 A community of Secular Canons was attaohedtothe 
 church of St. Neetan at a yery early period. But 
 Sir Jeffery Dynham, whose property was verjr ex- 
 tensive in the north of Devon, procured the licence 
 of King Henry 11. to change these secular, for regular. 
 Canons of the order of St. Augustine, and to found 
 a monastery for them. It is probablfe that the ori- 
 ginal monastery was very incomplete, and of a rude 
 style of architecture; for Bishop Stapeldon, who 
 visited it in the year 1319, describes the dormitory 
 as being in a ruinous condition, and the lavatory as ill 
 contrived. He complains that there w&s ho locuto- 
 rium for the Religious — that the church was dark — 
 and the belfry insufficiently covered in ; and he re- 
 commends to the Aljbot to see that these defects be 
 amended in the new church that was shortly to be 
 erected, "in ecclesia noviter constrneudd. Vid. 
 Regist. fo. J47. - 
 
 Until the dissolution of the abbey, the patronage 
 was vested in the Dywham family. Sometimes, bow- 
 ever, the names of Fitzwarren, of Zouche, of Carewe 
 and of Arundell, occur as patrons. The reason is 
 
 * Two Several coats of Arms. 1 . Arg. a Crosier in pale Or, surmoiinte.l 
 by n Stages head cabosUed sable, Ijorned. Gules. 2. (jules,.a Bend between 
 tiiree Pears slipt, Or. 
 
80 
 
 this: the heads of those four families married the- 
 four daughters of the founder. 
 
 The following is the best catalogue of the Abbots 
 that I can offer to the reader : — 
 
 A. D 
 
 1. Hugo, who was Abbot, I believe, in the 
 reign of King John 
 
 2. John ff^esicott, I think, succeeded. Vid. 
 Prince's Worthies, p. 754. 
 
 3. Ogerus de Kemit, admitted 10. June, 1 26 1 
 
 4. Thomas ff^gbbebir succeeded 4. Oct. 1281 
 
 5. John occurs Abbot in 1312 ; but resigned, 
 
 on account of bodily infirmities, l8..Sept. LS29 
 
 and died soon after. 
 
 6. John de Ralegh, 1 believe, sucGeedetf : he 
 died very early in the year 135G 
 
 7. David de JVystcoie, confirmed 6.' March, 
 that year. 
 
 8. William Beaumont, instituted 2 Feb. 1365 
 He was alive in 1373. 
 
 9. Philip Tone occurs Abbot in 1399 
 He died on Sunday 7. Dec. 1427 
 
 10. Gencianus Matlyngo, elected 20. of the- 
 same month and year. 
 
 He died 6. June, 1442 
 
 11. Richard Tavoton succeeded eight days 
 after. 
 
 He died 1. June, - 1462 
 
 12. Another Richard Tavoton succeeded 28. 
 June, 1462 
 
 13. John Prust. who died in the summer of 1529 
 
 14. Another John Pntsf succeeded 21. Aug. 
 that year. 
 
 N. B. This Abbot, with five' of his Religiousj 
 subscribed to the King's supremacy, 31. Aug. 1534 
 
 15. Thomas Pope, the- last Abbot ; he sur- 
 rendered his monastery 21. Febi 1539 
 
 1 find the following pensions were granted 
 30. April, 31. Hen. VIII. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 To Thomas Pope, Abbot 66 13 4 
 
 John Horwell 6 13 4 
 
 Roger Stone 6 13 4 
 
£. s. d, 
 
 Hmiry Kyne 6 13 4 
 
 Neotaaus Bera 5 6 8 
 
 The income of the abbey was rated at £306. 3. 21 
 
 The scite was granted 37. jHen. VIII. to William 
 Abbot. 
 
 In the taxatio of Edward I. I meet with the fol- 
 lowing particulars : — 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Abbas de Hertiland percipit de eccia de 
 
 Molend 3 6 8 
 
 De ecclesiA de Knondeston 3 7 8 
 
 De ecciA de Fforberi 7 
 
 Habet apud Bideford &Alwynton 6 19 "4 
 
 Apud Barnastapol de redd 2 
 
 ApudThirington, Breanford& Wykelegh de 
 
 redd •. 1 16 1 
 
 Apud Brafford que tax 5ft 
 
 Southmolton de redd 4 ft 
 
 Apud Kynelaundede redd 4 
 
 Mauerium de Launcell ^ 11 10 ft 
 
 Apud Bodmyne de redd 10ft 
 
 In villa Exoa d'e redd. ...^ 1 
 
 In Regist.. Bronescomhe fo. 19. it is stated that 
 the parish church of Stoke, or St. Neolan's, had 
 long been- deprived of a Vicar, " per negligentiam 
 Abbatis & Cbnventrts de Ilertilond". He ord&rs the 
 Abbot to pay the- Vicar in future 100s. per annum ; 
 also to provide-him with meat and drink like one of the- 
 Canons ; to maintain his man-servant ; and keep him 
 ojie horse. This ordinance is dated 29. May, 1^61. 
 
 The abbey presented also to the chapel of Wel- 
 eombe (Vhich was made inde-pendent of ^St. Nectan's 
 & Parochial 1508)— also to the churches of Fre- 
 mington, Brushford, Abbotsham, Abbots'-Bieking- 
 ton, Molland, Forbery, Knostone-, VToolfaidisvvor- 
 thy and others. 
 
 It also possessed the manors of Lancelles, Curgb, 
 KnoU& Estcote, in Cornwall. 
 
 The Abbot's town-house, in Exeter, appears to 
 have been in the High-street. 
 
 " Sciant presentes & futuri quod ego Matildis quon- 
 dam uxor Willi de Lancell in legitima viduitate mea 
 dedi. & concessi,, & quietum clamavi iinppetuum Duo 
 
82 
 
 Hugoni Abbati de Hertylond & Couv^ntui ejusdem 
 loci, totum boscum quem habui vel habere debui in 
 Manerio de Lancell nomine dotis cum omnibus per- 
 tinenciis suis. Et totum jus quod habui vel aliquo 
 modo habere potui in total! dioto boscho vel in 
 aliqua ejus parte, ita qd nichil juris vel exactionis 
 mihi inde retinui imppetuum. Et pro h&c donatione 
 & concessione mek habeada dederunt mihi dictus 
 Abbas & Conventus X solidos argenti pro manibus. 
 Que ut rate & stabiles permaneant in posterum, eas 
 presenti cartA mek & sigilli mei impre;ssioBe con- 
 firmavi. Hiis testibus," &c. &c. 
 
 The last owner of the abbey and its possessions, 
 was Paul Orchard, Esq. who died in 1812, and 
 whose memory will long be cherished in this county^ 
 
83 
 
 St. MARY, 
 
 OF OTTER Y. 
 
 Jr ROM Domesday it is clear that the Chapter of 
 St. Mary's church, at Rouen, in Normandy, held 
 Otrei manor of William the Conqueror. Bishop 
 Grandisson informs us, that it was the gift of Edward 
 the Confessor to that reverend body. Whether there 
 was a parish church on the manor, prior to the year 
 1260, 1 am not prepared to say ; but early in th« 
 December of that year. Bishop Bronescombe per- 
 forined the dedication of the church at Otery. Th,e 
 taxation of this church, in 1334, was ^£20 per an. 
 
 Bi&hop Grandisson, whose noble birth* and ex- 
 alted station in the church, were only exceeded by 
 his generosity and magnanimity, had long enter- 
 taioed the design of forming an establishment that 
 might serve as a sanctuary for piety and learning. 
 The situation that he judged most proper for the 
 purpose was Otery ; the spot was pleasant, fertile 
 and salubrious ; it was in the vicinity of Exeter ; he 
 could therefore, without prejudice to his episcopal 
 duties, be frequently present to watch its rising 
 growth ; and his successors in the See would, easily 
 
 • It is worthy of remark that the noble family of Clifford is connected 
 with this illustrious Bishop by his mother's side (Ewiiis). In the Clifford 
 ppdigree, approved and admitted 12. May, 1673, by Edward W^allcer 
 Edward Bysse and William Dugdale, Kings of Arms, I find tnat Roger 
 de Clifford, in the time of Henry III. married Sibilla, daughter and heiress 
 of Robert de Ewias. The father of this Sir Robert Ewias, founded the 
 Cistercian abbey of Dore, in H«refordshire— of which more hereafter. It 
 further appears from the pedigree, that the Cliffords were also allied^to Henry 
 Marshal, Bishop of Exeter, in the reigns of Richard I. and King John. 
 
84 
 
 be able to orush faction and vice in the very bad, 
 and to encourage the spirit of fervor and religious 
 discipline. Accordingly, with the approbation of 
 his Sovereign Edward III. and of his friend and 
 patron, Pope John XXII. he opened a negociation 
 with the -Dean and Chapter of Rouen, for the pur- 
 chase of the said church and manor. In vol. 1. 
 of his register, the letters between the parties are 
 preserved. It seems that the Chapter calculated 
 on driving a hard bargain ; and their demands rose so 
 high as to be designated by the Bishop as unreason- 
 able and exorbitant, " summa gravis & intolerabilis 
 & salvA gratift vestrA irrationabilis." At length, how- 
 ever, they condescended to lower their price, and the 
 Bishop, from his own purse, ex suo peculio, purchased 
 the manor and the advowson of the church, both of 
 which were then valued at two hundred and forty 
 marks per annum. 
 
 In fo. 43. of the same register is given the foun- 
 dation deed of St. Mary's College. It sets forth 
 that he had erected the parish churCh into a collegiate 
 one— that the four principal officers of the establish- 
 ment should be as follows: — 1. the Warden. — 2. the 
 Minister — 3. the Precentor — and 4. the S'aeristan. 
 These dignitaries ranked as Canons «fe Prebendaries. 
 Four simple Canons were also to be attached to the 
 service of this collegiate church, and their Prebends 
 were denominated Quinta, Sexta, Septima & Octava. 
 The collation to these Prebends was to belong ex- 
 clusively to the Bishop of Exeter, for the time being. 
 There were also to be eight Choral Vicars in Priests' 
 orders ; also one Priest to have charge of the parish- 
 ioners ; one Priest to celebrate the early morning 
 service, Presbyter matulinalis ; one Priest to be at- 
 tached to our Lady's chapel ; also eightClerks, called 
 Secondaries ; two otherClerks, called Clerici Ecclesie; 
 two other Clerks, called Aquebauli * ; eight choir 
 boys, and a master of grammar. All these forty 
 members of the college were obliged to assist at the 
 daily and nightly office, in their proper habits. 
 
 • Aquebauli were persons who carried the vessel of the holy wiiler in 
 professions and benedictions.— Scholars in the minor orders were alway 
 10 be preferred for this ofiBce. — V'id. cap. 29. Synod Exonien, A. D. 1287^* 
 
85 
 
 The Canons were to possess the right of nominating 
 the Vicars, Secondaries, and others ; but if they should 
 neglect to fill up a vacancy within the space of twenty 
 days, the appointment devolved on the Diocesan. 
 No one person was permitted to hold a double oflRce. 
 
 The Warden, by virtue of his office, was to receive 
 annually 60g. 
 
 The Minister was to receive the same sum. 
 
 The Precentor was to receive 30s. 
 
 The Sacristan, the same as the Precentor. 
 
 In quality of Canons, these dignitaries were entitled 
 to the same stipend which the simple Canons enjoyed, 
 viz. 40s. per annum. ; on feasts that were doubles, all 
 the Canons were to have 6d. per day : on days " qui- 
 bus * regilur chorus" 5d. ; on other days 4d. 
 Should any be absent from matins, vyithout a reason- 
 able cause, the forfeit was to be three farthings ; but 
 one penny, if absent from high mass or vespers. 
 
 Each Vicar was to receive a weekly allowance of 
 12d. besides a yearly stipend of 20s. Should any 
 Vicar absent himself from matins, high mass, or ves- 
 pers, he was to forfeit one penny ; if absent from 
 prime, tierce, sext, or none, he was to loset>,ne far- 
 thing of his pay. 
 
 The parish Priest was to receive six marks per an- 
 num. The clergyman who served our Lady's chapel, 
 and the eight Secondaries, were to receive 8d. weekly, 
 and 12,s. per annum : for each absence they were to 
 lose one farthing. The choir boys were to receive 
 5d. weekly, and 6s. 8d. per annum, and were 
 liable to the same forfeits as the Secondaries. The 
 two Clerici Ecclesie, and the school-master, were to 
 receive two marks per annum. The two clerks 
 Aquebauli, besides the ordinary fees from the parish- 
 ioners, were to receive 6s. Sd, from the college 
 yearly. 
 
 The members of the college were to elect, from 
 
 • From the circumstance, that the Bishop of Sarum was Precentor in 
 the college of Bishops, and that he directed the choir, when the Bishops 
 ^sisted at a service solemnly performed by the Archbisliop of .Canterbury, 
 {Lyndwood Prpvineiale p. 104.) it would seem that the expression diebus 
 cjaibus regitur chorus, imported " solemn festivals." But in the case be- 
 fore us, how conies it that the remuneration is less than on doubles ? CI. Xt 
 the 4ays are not semidoubles ? 
 
the body of Viears, an officer called the Sflcceuftfr or 
 Subchanter. Besides his duty in the Choir, he was 
 also to note down and report the absentees ; and he 
 was entitled to a moiety of all the fines collected from 
 sueh'absentees as were not Canons : the other moiety 
 was to be delivered to the stevpards, who were to be 
 two in number, and to be chosen from the Canons 
 every year, on the Vigil of St. Michael. It further 
 appears, from the deed of foundatfon, that each 
 Canon had Jiis own house ; and that the Bishop had 
 erected a suitable mansion for the Vi'oars and infe- 
 rior ministers, where they lived in common. 
 
 Bishop Grandisson expressly enjoins that the an- 
 niversaries of Cardinal Peter, Bishop of Prseneste, 
 who bad consecrated him in the Dominican church, 
 at Avignon, 18. Oct. 1327; of Pope John XXII.* 
 his friend and promoter ; of William Grandisson, 
 his father; of Sibilla, his mother; of his uncle, 
 Otho Grandisson ;t atid of his brothers and sisters, 
 shouM be observed with solemnity; afld that con- 
 siderable charities ^ould be distrfbuted to the poor 
 on these oceasi'ons. 
 
 For the endowments of this extensive foundatloTi, 
 the Bishop grants for ever to the college the manor 
 of Otery, with all its rights and appurtenances, with 
 the reservation of 6s. 8d. tO be paid annually to 
 the Dean and Chapter of Rouen. This deed is dated 
 22. January, 1337-8. The approbation of the sove- 
 reign Pontfff, Clement VI. is dated from Avignon 
 2T. June, 1st year of his pontificate, (1 342). 
 
 A few months after the foundation, Bishop Gran- 
 disson, with tTae free consent of the Prior and Con- 
 vent of Plympton, procured the annexation of the 
 church of ITsingtOtt to his college. The approp^fa- 
 tlon is dated 5. May, 1338.— Vid. l.Reglst. fb. 150. 
 
 * In 1. Regist. Grandisson, fo. 108. it is stated, that the anniver- 
 sary of this Pope was on the 4. Dec. ; the annh'ersary of William Gran- 
 disson on 2B. June; and of Sibilla, on 21. dcti— JJ.B. Koker incorrectly 
 calls Grandisson's father, GilBefL 
 
 t This Otho, the Bishop's brother, was very rich, and had obtained of 
 King Edward III. a grant of the counly of Tipperary, in Ireland. See p. 
 ,64, of Pamell's Apologj'. In a patent 33. Edward III* we find " Rei 
 tenetur Otoni de Grandlssono in decem niillibus Multonum auri," thfii 
 is with coinsj stamped with an Agnus Dei. See Spelman's Glossarj-.. 
 
87 
 
 The priory, however, in resigbing this benefice^ 
 reserved ati annual pension of lOOs; 
 
 For the better support of this establishment, Otho 
 Grandisson, the Bishop's brother, purchased of St. 
 Stephen's Abbey, at Caen, in Normandy, the living 
 of Northata, and appropriated it to the college 
 S. DeG. 1363. In consequence of this accession 
 of property, the number of Vicars was increased from 
 eight to ten. It further appears, from L. Regist. 
 fo. 213. that this Otho had bequeathed to the college 
 certain houses and rents in the city of London. 
 
 From an interesting document, dated 22. Feb. 
 1422. vol. 2. Regist. Stafford fb. 278. we discover 
 that the college was charged with providing every 
 thing necessary for Bishop Grandisson's cha«try, 
 (sometimes called St. Radegundes' chapel,) on the 
 right hand of the great Western entrance into the 
 Cathedral of Exeter. To support this chantry and 
 the officiating'clel'gyman, certain lands and messuages, 
 situate in the Old Jewry, in London, had been be- 
 queathed by Mr. Nicholas Braybrook, and others.* 
 
 In 3. Regist. Laoey fo. 146. with the farther 
 appropriation of the church of Iplepen, A.t). 1439. 
 
 I'he founder had originally determined, that if 
 any monies remained in the college treasury at Mi- 
 chaelmas, a moiety should be taken out to be distri- 
 buted amongst the residentiary Canons. But on 1. 
 July, 1354, he deferefed that the expences of hospi- 
 tality, which the Warden, from the nature of his office, 
 was i^bliged to incur during the course of the year, 
 should previously be refunded before jmy-distributlon 
 should take place. 
 
 TW6 sifigtflar ordinances of the founder ^re stated 
 in 1. Regist. fo. 105. The i\rst, that after the solemn 
 service and procession on the.Feast of the Assumption 
 ot the Blessed Virgin, (10. Aug.) a handsome enter- 
 tainment was to be provided at the expence of the eol- 
 
 * Tie college was boiuid lo keep the Obit of this Mr. Nicholas Bray- 
 brook, and Theobald Moaatenay, Esq. on the second day after the F^ost of 
 the Epiphany of our Lord. N..B, In the ohantry, within the palace of the 
 Bishops of London, perpetual prayers were oifered f»r the souls of the Bi^bops 
 lof London, for the Braybrook family, and " for John Grandisson, once 
 Bishop of Exeter."— Vid. Dujdale's Hist, of St. Paul's, j. 13A. 
 
lege,, at wfaicli the whole community was to assist> 
 habited in surplices " in signum candide virginitatis 
 Beate Marie." 
 
 The secoHd, that, as a mark of gratitude to the 
 foundation, and in order to perpetuate their own 
 memory, each of the four dignitaries was bound to 
 present to the College a silk cope of the value of 40s. ; 
 each of the four simple Canons was to make a dona- 
 tion of a cbasible, or tunie; or dalmatic, or of a de- 
 cent alb, with an amice, stole and mani.ple,or of some* 
 book that might be useful to the church, of 20s. value ; 
 or once pay to the college, treasury the sum of 20s. 
 It is to be observed -that this regulation was not 
 binding, if the members had not enjoyed their pre- 
 bends a complete year ; and again, that it was 
 optional, whether they made the donation during 
 their lives, or bequeathed it at their death. 
 
 The oath taken by a member of the college, was as 
 follows : — "Ego, N. ab hac hor& in antea fidelis ero 
 Ecclesie Collegiate Sancte Marie deOtry ac Collegio 
 & Confratribusmeis Canonicis ejnsdem. Et ordina- 
 tionem ac statuta dicle Ecclesie k Venerabili Patre 
 Dno Johanne de Grandissono Exon Epo fundatore 
 dicti Collegii edita quantum ad me attinet, fideliter 
 observabo ; ac jura & libertates ipsius CoUegii pro 
 posse meo defendam ac tuebor. Sic me Deus adjuvet 
 & hec sancta," &c. 
 
 Before I present the reader with the succession of 
 the Wardens of Otery College, I will merely notice the 
 gross error of Godwin in his life of Bishop Giandisspn, 
 that it was a foundation for Black Monks. "Colle- 
 gium condidit monachis atratis Oterei?e." Such an 
 assertion is too absurd to require a serious refutation. 
 
 WARDENS. 
 
 A. D, 
 
 1. Richard de GotvUsdle, appointed warden 
 provisionally, 17. Jan. 1337-8 
 
 2. Bichard de Otry succeeded 24. June, 1338 
 
 * The Library oftbii phurch must liave been considerable. John de Exeter, 
 clerk, bequeathed to it, 28. July, 1445, books to the nuniber of 136.- Vid, 
 3. Regist. Lacy, fo. 513. 
 
89 
 
 A.. D, 
 
 3. Henry Bofiet, who resigned 9, Ma^, 1350 
 
 4. Andrew Memore mc<Deed&A ITth of the 
 foHiiWra'g June. 
 
 5. John Coterel occurs Wardten' in' 1 387 
 
 6. WiUiuM Slade succeeded 
 
 7. JoAw BoAe/oWrf, admitted 17. Otet. 1399 
 8> John Tyret, died lale in 1414 
 
 9. JohnSargersvto6eedyi on the erisuittg 38iab 
 ioi January. 
 
 10. John Hancoek, admitted 31. Avigast, 1446 
 I" believe it was during this Warden's 'gbVeriS- 
 
 ment, that King Henry VI. in the sutainer of 
 1461, visited the college^ IzaCfce- irifefHasus, 
 that he was received with gr«at' sol'erti'nity, aiid 
 that he lodged in the college two nights. 
 
 11.' Thomas Stephens. 
 
 12. Thomas CornfoA, EpiseOpus Tynenssis & 
 suffragan to Bishop' Fox, col'atfed to Hke Wat' 
 deriship in DecembeT, 1'4'90 
 
 N. B. He resigned this- office in June, 161 1 
 
 I3v Thomas Michell sticceeded on the 37tfi 
 of the same month aofd year. 
 
 14> Thomas Chard, Episcbpus Solubsrieen'siff, 
 succeeded 9. Oct. 1513 
 
 Amd resigmed in the autumn of 1618' 
 
 16.' Waiter Dudman, confirmed l&. Oct. 1618 
 
 16. Oliver Smith followed 26. Jnne, 1626 
 
 N.- B. This Warden, with Rosier Bramston, 
 Minister; Roger Stokeman, Sstcristan; and 
 William Dyeher, Canon ; sufoscrihed to the 
 King's Saipremacy, 13. July, 1634. -Vid. 14. 
 Rymer's Foedera, p. 508j 
 
 17." John Ffysher, appoljEkted h^ Bishop Tey- 
 sey, Smith's successor, 30. Oct. 1664 
 
 ^ At the dissolution of 'the college, its anntfal 
 income w'as rated at £303. 2. 9. 
 
 I meet with bat two pensions, which Were grante'd 
 at Westminster, 12,^ July, 37. Hen. VIII 
 
 . £. s. d. 
 
 To Nicholas Philips, Vicar & \S 6 
 
 Baldwin Hastcombe.... :,.. 6 18 $ . 
 
 The college was grcipted, 37; Hen. VIII. to Edward, 
 
 I, ;^ 
 
90 
 
 Earl of Hertfwd. The King, in the same year, 
 founde4 the. grammar-school for the parish. 
 
 The following answer of Bishop Yeysey to the 
 writ; of the Barons of the Exchequer, desiring infor- 
 mation concerning the temporalities of this college, 
 is copied from his ^Register, vol. 2. fo. 6. 
 
 " Johannes permissione didnd Exon Epos, egregiis 
 viris Baironibuj! de Sqaccario Dni mei Regis apud 
 Westmonasterinm, salutem in eo,in quo est omnis vera 
 salus. Breve Dni Regis presentibus interdusum cum 
 eft qu&.deonitreverencid accepifflussub tenore in eo- 
 dem contento. Cujusquidem Brevis anctoritate parl- 
 ter & vigQF^ certificamns, quod scrutatis Registris nos» 
 tris ac aUis evideflciis djligenter receositis, com- 
 perimus quo^ Gustos & Collegium de Otry habuerunt 
 & in suos proprios usus tenuerunt prout in. prelseiiti 
 habent $ tgnent, ecclesiam Spe Marie de dUsy uni- 
 tam & apprQgjFiatam djcto Cusjtodi & GoUegio per 
 Reverendum Patrem bone memorie Johanneoi de 
 Grandissono, olim, dum vixit, Exon Epum Prede- 
 cessorem nostrum A. D. 133^. Et solvere cousneve- 
 runt pro decimd ipsius Ccllegii ratione JSpivitnalium 
 & Temporeiliqm £4. 7. OJ. — Item pro decimd dicte 
 Egclie Dive Marie de Otry 20s. — Item pro Vicario 
 ej^s|[em 6s. 8d. Habent eciam in suos proprios usus 
 &, optinent ecclesias ParochiAles sequentes, viz. 
 Epd^iam Parochialein de Istyogton quam appro- 
 priavit dictis Custodi & CoUegio autedictus Reveren- 
 dus Pater. A. D. IS^SS, cujus decima 14s. 7|d. Item 
 ecclesiauaa Parochialem die Ipplepen dicto Custodi 
 & Collegjo approprjatam per recolendum virum felicis 
 memorie Edmundum Lacy, olim Exon Epum Prede- 
 cessorem nostrum A. D. 1439, cujus decima 6s. — Item 
 Ecclesiam P^rdchialem de Northam dicto Custodi & 
 CoUegio per sepedictum Patrem Johem de Grandis- 
 sono appro^riatam A. D. 1361, cujus decima 14s. 9|d. 
 CpioperiBius eciam per alia fide digna dociimenta 
 quod solvere consupvernntRBgiCelsitudini ac Proge- 
 - nitoribu/3 suis pro temporalibus taxam sub nomine 
 Decani & Capituli Epclesie Rothomagensis 26s. Quod 
 ^obis fignificamus per has nostras literas patentee A 
 
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 ,sic imaQdata cerenissime Regie Majcstatid ctim ei 
 quA decuit reverenciA & diligenciA executl surnna. 
 In qjHorum omnium &singuloium fidem & testimonium 
 sigillum nostrum, &o. &c. Datum in manerio nr de 
 ChudliBgh 17. Novembris Anno Dni Regis Henrici 
 12°. & Consecrationis n6stre2°." 
 
 The collegiate church of Ottery has sometimes 
 been compared to the Cathedral of Exeter, and has 
 been called St. Peter's in miniature. ? "fhe gjround 
 plan is indeed nearly the same ; but^ in 'myijpinion, 
 it is a very humble imitation of its prototype^ and will 
 stand no comparison in unity of desigrl, ehasteness 
 of architecture, and splendour of decoration. Bishop 
 Grandisson seems -to have built the whole of the 
 choir, and of the Lady chapel, and to have retained 
 the greater part of the walls and windows of the old 
 church to form the nave, wbich he must have entirely 
 new vaulted. We have already remarked that Bishop 
 Bronescombe dedicated the Old parish church it) 
 1260, in the reign of Hen. Til. 
 
 In a letter which Grandisson addressed to Pope 
 Benedict XII. (vid. 1. Regist. fo. 40.) he says, that 
 this collegiate church was dedicated to our Lady, 
 and St. Edward the Confessor ; and he afterwards 
 adds " in quorum reverenciam ibidem jam Ecclesiola, 
 inter omnesRegni istius juxta statum suum venusiior 
 est constructa." 
 
 . ,The curious observer will remark throughout the 
 church, in the nodules of the nave, choir and aisles, 
 the arms of Grandisson^f viz :" palewise of^six, argent 
 and azure, a bend gules, charged with a mitrebetween 
 two eaglets displayed Or ; as also very frequently the 
 Montacute armorial bearings, viz. Argent 3 lozenges 
 or fusils in fess, gules. Probably William MontaT 
 cute, , Earl of Salisbury, who married Catharine, 
 Bishop Grandisson's sister, might have assisted in 
 founding the coirege,' or in altering and improving 
 the old fabric. The Earl died 3. Feb. 1344.— See 1. 
 Dugdale's Baronage, p. 647. 
 
 A gorgeous chapel, communicating with the north 
 aisle of the nave', cannot fail to arrest the attention of 
 the spectator. Perhaps it is the grandest specimen of 
 th^ florid and most recent style of English architec- 
 
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 tare "frithin the diocese of -, Ex&ter. Froiti the arme- 
 Fial bsafinga of Bishops CoOrtenay and Vey*ey, it ift 
 reasonable 40" suppose tb'at it was begWD tttle 1ft th& 
 4;5ib, and finished In the earlypart of the. 16th centUY-y. 
 ^Tbe feelinj^ spectator wiH heave a ^igh, when he 
 beholds the two magnificent monnments in ^e nave, 
 ati^oaed to be erected to the memory of GrandissOn's 
 .parents. If love o( thte arts Conoid not pfotect th^^fli 
 iTrom ■injuj'jr and mutilation, Still the reSpeot dufe tb 
 such an ornament of his coimtlry and of 'mankib'd', 
 should havesecHred them be^er tl-eatnotent. I said 
 that these monumdnts were supposed to be erebtdfl 
 to the mei]iiory of the Bishop's parents ; fot it is 6!A 
 unqtiAstion&ble fact, that both were buri«d in thfe 
 eoiwentual church of Dore, in Herefbrdshll-e. In 1. 
 Begd'st. fo. 40> a letter of Grandissoit's to Pope Bie^ 
 aedictXIjL. is extant. ' After congraitulaiting <his Holi- 
 ness on his'ireeent promotion to the papal t^ir,^ he 
 tells hinft that his eyes are still streaming withlears 
 for the loss be has lately sui^tained by the death of 
 bis mother : he then proceeds fljos : " Ipsa Mater 
 mea Angliod genere, in domo Oisterciensis Ordrnis 
 nomine Dora ^ suif i ProgenitOribiste fuudatS, noviter 
 buml tradit"a,"pfi4rem licet Burgundum igenete ibideii^ 
 sepeliendnm, «fe Tube Archangelice ultimum soniftuii} 
 |>i^silsolatnx, tprout yenerabilis Doctor Abbas «jusdeii» 
 dom^s de Dore dicte satis novit."-— Pei^baips the mo- 
 numents in question were erected, to some ©f the 
 Montacute family, ■ ■* 
 
 There was a chapel of our Saviour near Otery 
 liridge. For the repairs of this chapel and the bridge. 
 Bishop Lacy granted an indulgence of forty days, on 
 |he Bth Sept. 1438. Bishop Vjeysey permitted one 
 John Selman to become a Redkise in ttiis chapel, on 
 10. November, 1631.— Vid. 2 Regist. Veyseyfo. 61.' 
 
 ■ — °^ ' "— • ' ■ 
 
 t^Tjie letter must olear|y be writleti early in .1^3$, as Pqpe John XXII . 
 iaifdoa4.D6C,15W. 
 
9S 
 
 St. ^QHN's Hf^SpiTAV 
 
 EXETER,' 
 
 BETWEEpifo. 17 and 18 of Bishop Brone^jM9,V< 
 Register, a TO^m^v^n^lmijd, ij^ ^ft^.KttdvRUisp.prAiilg' to 
 hi^ 9 tru? cpipy of ^fee |irsta9.4'|eip,on^ fouiitiatiKju C(£ 
 tbe hospitals pf SS. Ate^SL, and Jfohft the' Bapjfet. 
 It sts^tes, that JP the year 1110, 12.: Hea.' I J. 
 vs;hilst Bartholowew wsks Bisiiap 9f' JJseitej", WUHam 
 BvpdQW, the son of Ralph Fradoro, had he^wn thp, 
 fpuads^tioin of St. Alexius' Hospital, in a spot of 
 g^i'pand iq>m$diat€ily, hehiod St. 'Nicholas' Prlo.i'y.t 
 'f retcb, Mooaaterium Sei 'NiGhola,*"^ — tliat he ^e(d,'ah- 
 tatned a spot of grouadj called IVUsherry, for, tWs pur- 
 pose, of Walter, the Abbot of Battle, and that the 
 satpe was Cftpfirni^d tp him by the Abbot Qdo, who 
 sHceeeded VV^alter. This fp.undation i^as meidP for 
 pqpK n00dy persons, '' pauper4'feus'eg'gfliis,'>' and was 
 not a place pf and for two Moafea, as Isjae^g^t^virdJy 
 
 represents it- .' • . r . f, . 
 
 From this memprandjBW it further ^ppearsi, that the 
 Hpgpital Qf St. AJtjxfus subsisted for ge'jrefltjf years, 
 
 ; Tb? prigii^al brass sesl of ^^ l»S8p'<«;I W^S jp the possession of the late 
 Alderraaii Crossing, t have seenanimiytession— It wai'olronla^ andri^fe- 
 
 seMe«'iibiiiMiDg something lite a ffitech'f ■ buffiAviftg W tESso&tli :^sM9 
 tl^rpB l:qu«S 4 
 oaWtU The in 
 Porta Exon.?' 
 
 t^rpB tom^ #?t!8S petft^tty ^imWei to^ tfe«!ss ^H^sfeBdi8g:■iq■t%-'}(!8e^ 
 raiUrt. The insciiptioa ran thus :— '.Sigill hpsgital Sci Johis' jnita oriental 
 
 t JenTcius has dUwmed that "m ^m W,fS i%^i jg ^S^fl 
 Lane, ?inctentJy called St.. Lucte's MSf /* Qmmo^ qShd^emMt faf 
 
 tory of E^etfr.; 
 
 I have hiet with a lease, dated 8. Feb. 1. Hen. VII. where the ." VeDella 
 
 gatdens of (he Trior of 1st. NicI^^Ias. It 15 (low g*Jl?a Frt?ihSky-str6et. 
 
 'h3'' - - -- .. 
 
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 vcheo it w i.s united to St. John's Hospital, near the 
 East gate, founded and endowed about the year 1240, 
 by two brothers, called Gilbert and John Long. 
 This act of incorporation received the ratification of 
 King Henry III. and the c()i,6rmation of Boniface,. 
 Archbishop of Ganteiibury. Soon after this, Jofaa 
 Long, one of the founders, probably from a motive 
 of bumility and eharity, became a member of the 
 hospital, and was appointed the master of the com- 
 munity " of the brothers and sisters*'* 
 
 Bishop Bytton, who, died in 1307, is recorded t» 
 have been a great benefactor to this charitable insti- 
 tution. Amongst other good, works he repaired their 
 infirmary. 
 
 The first regular mention of the hospital in the Regis- 
 ters^ of the See of Exeter occurs in 1274, when 
 Bishop Bronescombe, on the 21, Sept. commissioned' 
 William de Wferpelisdon, Ganon of the Cathedral, to 
 the charge and administration of its temporalities.' In 
 1376, John de Castello was appointed to the same 
 office. And indeed it is obvious, from the sequel 
 of the registers, that until the dissolution of the hos- 
 pital, by Henry VIII, the Bishops commissioned some 
 respectable ecclesiastic to overlook its temporal con- 
 cerns. 
 
 In Bishop Grandisson's Register, vol. 2. p. 3; is an 
 interesting document, dated 29. May, 1329. It 
 informs us that Sir Philip de Columbariist and his wife 
 Alianora had bestowed on the hospital the patronage< 
 and advowson of the parish church of Holne, near- 
 Ashburton. At this time the hospital was exceedingly 
 poor. This Bishop confirms the appropriation of the* 
 benefice, and orders that the number of clergymen, 
 wbo served the hospital, originally confined to two,, 
 should be incr«ased.to four ; and that one of them 
 should daily celebratexjur Lady's mass ; and another, 
 
 * " Alter frater J,ohes LoDgus intrans fralernitatem predict! Hospitalis 
 ffictus est Magister Fratnim & Sororum ejusdem Hospitalis." 
 
 . I also observe in 2. Regist. Grandisson, fo. 134. tbatthe bishop, od 31. 
 Bee. 1829, desired Matilda de Tiverton, whom he describes to be "senio 
 oonfracta.^ corpore incurvatB," to be admitted among tiie infirm sisters of 
 St. John's Hospital. 
 
 ' t According to LelaDd,this Philip and bis wife were buried in Barnsta- 
 ple Priory .—See his Itinerary, vol. 8. p. 104. 
 
the mass of requiem or of the day, according: to his dft- 
 Totion ; for the welfare of the Columbers family, arid of 
 King Edward III. as also for the repose of the follow- 
 ing deceased benefactors, William Martyn & his wife 
 Alianora, William de Hastyng, and John de Lacy-. 
 The hospital was to provide twenty wax taperSj each 
 of one pound weight, to be placed on the ciatafalque 
 " super herciam" of William Martyn and Alianora his 
 wife, who were interred in the Dominican church of 
 this city; which lights were to burn during the dirge 
 there to be performed on their respective anniver- 
 saries, viz. on William's anniversary, the Feast of 
 St. Catharine the Virgin ; and on Alianora's, the Feast 
 of St. Blase the martyr. On each of these anniver- 
 saries the hospital was to pay 6s. 8d. to the said Domi- 
 nican convent, and was also to perform a solemn 
 service in their own church for the reposo of the 
 souls of the above-mentioned benefactors. 
 
 In fo. 5. of the same vol. it is stated that Walter 
 Stapeldon, late Bishop of Exeter, had intended to 
 found a grammar school in St. John's Hospital, 
 and to appropriate to it the advowson of Yarns- 
 . Combe Cliurcb, near Barnstaple. His lamented 
 and untimely fate prevented the execution of his 
 ' pious inteiitiohs. Bishop Grandisson, with a zeal 
 and spirit equally honourable to bis head and 
 bis heartj entered into the benevolent views of. his 
 predecessor, and, by his protection and ihuniBceBce, 
 may justly be styled the founder of the establishment. 
 The deed of foundation is dated liSS, and sets foi-tfa, 
 that two poor children shall be chosen from the Atbh- 
 ! deaconry of Barum ; one or both of ^hotn, if judged 
 proper, to be taken from Yarnscombe parish — 
 one or two from the Archdeaconry of Totnes— ^two 
 from the Archdeaeon'ry of Exetfer^one or two from 
 the Archdeaconry of Cornwall— thpeie from binrbngst 
 the chorister boys of Exeter ; Ca%hedral, and one 
 at the nomination of the Cblumbers family. The 
 schoolmaster was, if possible, to be in priestly <ord«rs. 
 
 In another document^ vol. I. fo. 184. bearing date 
 31. March, 1354jthe same Bishop acquaints us *tjat 
 on his promotion' to the See of Eaeter, he.foundthis 
 charitable establishment in the most d^pLonrable ^fcou- 
 
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 ^ition ; the Oit^y iutifibUfgats were then, 900 P^st. 
 and a fe,w^ i^firip persons ; that he had saccee^d in ' 
 iocredsing tJhenumbejrof the cjLergytiaen^nto^ye,,oDe 
 of whom was to hold the ofBce Oif4i;iperioi' or jPrjor — 
 .thai jthe nutnher of p^or persons on the foand^^tioi) 
 should be twelve in future — ^that there should be also 
 eight boys with a waster to teach them grammar — and 
 that he had enjoined t^e clergymen to adopt the order 
 and observrance of St. Augustine. He adds, that he 
 hadsomejtime before dedicated a spot of ground con- 
 tiguous to their church, to serve as a burial place for 
 their community. From a memorandum, fo. 128. of 
 the same v.ol. we learn that the dedication of this 
 cemetry, as also of the nave of the church from the 
 entrance as far as the choir, " navem jEcclesi9, yjz. 
 ab ingressu .^usdem navis usque ad introitom cborl," 
 was performed IQ. Sept. 135-1, tbe Feast of St. 
 Lamoert, Bishop and martyr. See again 1 . Regist. 
 Stafford, fo. 241. The high altar of the hospital 
 church bad been dedicated by 3ishop Crrandisson, 
 12. Nov. 1336.— Vid. 2, Regist. fo. 206. 
 
 I believe there is scarcely a will in the episcopal 
 regiaters, wherein a legacy is no| bequeathed to this 
 charitable foundation. 
 
 Of the Priors or masters of the hospital, I have 
 recovered the following succession : — A. d. 
 
 1. John Bolchm, admitted Prior 10. Feb. : 1349 
 He died 26. July, 1S84 
 
 2. Richard Wddefmd succeeded. 
 
 He died 6. August, 1428 
 
 3. Jnhn JXovBrysshe followed. 
 
 He died 2. May, 1461 
 
 Thus these Priors governed the house for 
 snore than a century. 
 
 4. John Colf/ford succeeded five days after. 
 
 He died in the spring of 1468 
 
 5. Robert Combe^ admitted 4. May, same year. 
 He was living in 1498. 
 
 6. John Oiyver^ 
 
 7. Richard ByU. 1 meet with in kases in 1615 
 and 1624 
 
 8. Robert Lamrence. He was living in 1618 
 
 9. Richard Mmrrys. 
 
ST 
 
 This was . the last Prior, and he subscribed to the 
 supremacy 13. July, 1634, with three of his bre- 
 thren. 
 
 The annual income of the hospital was rated at 
 £102. 12. 9. 
 
 On the 11. May. 1539, the following members of 
 the hospital were gratified with pensions. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Richard Harrys, late Prior or 
 
 Master. „ 16 13 4 
 
 John Broderidge 3 6 8 
 
 JohnScotts , 3 6 8 
 
 In several peases now before me, I find the hospital 
 had property in Clyst, in Heavitree, in St. Sidwell's 
 parish, as sdso certain tenements in the* parishes o£ 
 SS. George, Kerian, Martin, Stephen, and Lawrence, 
 and in the Friernhay, within the city of Exeter. 
 
 On 29. March, 35. Hen. VIII. Hugo Ffrye, of 
 Exon, purchased of the Crown the rectory of Yarns- 
 combe, for a term of twenty-one years, for the 
 i^^nimal suiu of £10. 
 
d8 
 
 FRANCISCAN CONVENT, 
 
 EXETER. 
 
 M. HE Franciscan Order was first confirmed by 
 Pope Innocent III. 16. April, 1209. About eleven 
 years after, Brother Agnellus, with eight conapanions 
 of the same Institute, arrived in England, and were 
 graciously received by King Henry III. 
 
 As far as I' can trace, the Franciscan Convent in 
 Exeter was established about the year 1250. " li 
 was situated," says Leland, «' betwixt the North 
 and West gate, neere the towne waulle, now a 
 plain vacant ground caullid Ferenhay." This con- 
 vent must have been greatly straitened for room ; 
 as must of the land in that quarter of the city be- 
 longed to the ancient and royal Monastery of St. 
 Nicholas. Hoker asserts, that Bishop Quivill, at 
 first pronrised, but afterwards refused, to provide 
 them with a more convenient situation ; and he says, 
 that Peter Kenefeld, a Dominican and his Confessor, 
 had succeeded in poisoning his mind against these 
 Religious. Godwin, without the least evidence, is 
 inclined to believe that, in revenge for his opposition, 
 the Friars managed to take the Bishop ofi' by a very 
 strong poison. " Existimassem veneno rapido, illo- 
 rum machinatione extinctam." ! ! ! 
 
 In the appendix will be given an interesting letter 
 of the Primate, Archbishop Peckham, in 1281, to 
 Bishop Quivill. F rom its tenor, we think it probable 
 that our respectable Pjelate did startle in the begin- 
 Bing at the extraordinary privileges of the Franciscan 
 
99 
 
 Order ; that he might have considered tjiem as so 
 many encroachmetits upon the episcopal authority ; 
 and perhaps hesitated to acknowledge them, until 
 satisfactory proof was brought thki they Ijacf 
 really been granted by the Apostolic See. , Bnt that 
 he truly esteemed the Orderj befriended its members, 
 and allowed their privileges, is manifest from the 
 6th chapter of the Synodus Exoniensis which he 
 held here in the year 1287. / " Quia de rebus trah^i- 
 toriis nihil superest, qtiod animarum saluti debeat 
 anteponi, Praecipimys quod cdm Fratres Prsedf*- 
 batores & Minores, tana in Quadragesima^ quam extra, 
 cum transltnm fecerint per Parochias, Confessiones 
 Fidelium libera audiant & penitentias injungant. 
 £t si Sedes Apostolica eis amplius indulserit vel 
 Jndixerit indulgendum, hoe ab omnibus observetur. 
 Et quoniam Ipsorum Fratrumi prsedicatio & sancta 
 conversatio in ecfclesid Dei prOduxisse fructum non 
 modicum dihoscitur, nbicumque per nOstram Dioce- 
 sim transitum fecerint, hbnorifice admittantur & pro- 
 curentux honeste," ... 
 
 If the venerable Predate could not serve them 
 more efTectUally, why not attribute it to the short 
 period of his government, and to the difficulties he 
 had to encounter in re-building a new cathedral ? 
 
 Fn Fishop Bytton, Quivill's successor, the Friars 
 experienced a generous benefactor ; " he removed 
 them from the Friernhay ;" and, as Leland informs 
 us, " he builded them an house a little without the 
 South gate," 
 
 Bishop Bytton's Registef, which might have thrown 
 considerable light on this foundation, is entirely 
 Tost : the other registers afford but little inforn^atioii 
 respecting this commnnrty^ In the appendix,* is the 
 copy of the donation of a library to their con vent, in 
 the year 1266, by Roger de Thoris, Archdeacon of 
 Exeter. If I may judge from the lists of their 
 Ordinandi, the community most have been numerous. 
 It was certainly in high repute for learning and 
 piety. I must here remark, that Jenkins's* account 
 
 T. 
 
 • See p. 48. of his History of Exeter. Whea this man " was conscious," 
 as he tells us in his preface, "that he was unequsl to such an undertaking ;" 
 why. attempt it' 
 
100 
 
 of thi* convept is a tissue of errors and {^l^urijities. 
 TJie c^nyeqt was exceedingly poor — it had no, rea^l 
 estate whatever, and it subsisted chiefly on i^e. al,ms 
 and benefactions of well-disposed Christians. 
 
 Many illustrious persons were buried in their oqn- 
 ventual church. Amongst others, I^abella^ who w^{( 
 first married to John de Courteqay, and after.l)^is 
 death in 1273, became wife to Lord Oliver Dint^ixt. 
 She was interred on the south side of the ch?incel. 
 Hoker, in his MS. says, the convent was suppresi^ed 
 13. Sept. 163,8. 
 
 The scite was granted, says Tanner, to Huijjphry 
 Rolles. It still retains the pame of Fifiars : bnt X 
 find no vestige of the convent, besides a PM* of ^n 
 ancient Wilding, supported by three buttresses. 
 
 In Jonas' Index to Records, I observe, un4^ Ihe 
 Art. Expnia, "parta De Johann& Hill Q.ccasionata 
 ad QSitea4,epdftn!i qiio titulo tenet situna Fratrura 
 Minorum vocatoyum Le Grey Fryers jiixtaCiyJtatem 
 pr«^4^taw> Paschse Recorda, 5. Edward YI. ]^p- 
 tulo26." 
 
 In the registers, frequent mention is made of the* 
 Franciscan convent at Plymouth. ^We may iiere- 
 i?€smark, that the Ein^glish Franciscan province num- 
 bered abput ninety convents under the seven custo- 
 dies of London, York, Bristol, Cambridge, QxJ^rd, 
 Newcastle and Worcester, .^n indeterminate num- 
 ber of Convents fornted a Custody, of whjch, the 
 Superior was called Cug^os. The immedia^^ Supe- 
 rior of a convent was called Gardianus ; the Supe- 
 rior of the whplebody in Engleipd, was stjjle^ ?^l^^i8- 
 ter Prpvincialis. — See the liea^Qcd ^nd mtei[pst|ng 
 work, entitled Collectanea Anglo-lVtinoritioa, 4to> 
 Loud. 1726» of which the Rev. A^itjipny Parkinson 
 was Author. 
 
IrOi 
 
 DOMINICAN CONVENT,* 
 
 EXETER. 
 
 jLiEI>AND informs, us, that "there was a house of 
 Blake Freres on the North side of the Ceraiterie of 
 the Cathedrale churchj but withoute the Close." 
 3. Itin. p. 60. 
 
 The same writer notices the following; works whiclj 
 he saw in their conventual library, .3. CoUactaneaj 
 p. 151. 
 
 Kilwardeby super Sententias. 
 ^ Shirwood super Sententias. 
 ;. Lectura Holcot super Sententias. 
 
 Stephanus Cantuar : super Cantica Cauticoruiii. 
 
 Concordia quatuor Evrangelistaruna, autore Cle- 
 mente Lantonense. Sic incipit : " Quaeris qud fretu's 
 anctbritate." _ 
 
 I regret to have collected but little information 
 concerning this establishment. It certainly existed 
 here before the year 1259 ; for, early that year> 
 Bishop Bronescombe acknowledged, in writing, that 
 the supply^ of water, conveyed into his palace from 
 the Dominican convent, was to be considered as a per- 
 sonal favor, and not be construed as a matter of 
 right by any of his successors. " Anno 1268, 17. Kal. 
 Aprilis, consignata fuit quedam litera super aque 
 ductu de Doxno Fratrum Predicatorum usque ad 
 curiam Dni Epi in suis adventibus & eo apud 
 
 * I have seen an impressioD of tbe conventual seal. Under a poin^d 
 arch appears the blessed Virgin, holding the Divine Infant over an altar: 
 an Opposite figure seems intended for St. Joseph. Beneath, under an arch, 
 is the half figure of a monk in the attitude of prayer. Tht inscriptionis 
 »s follows ,:—S. Conveat. Fry. Predicatorum. Exen. 
 
1U2 
 
 Exon qu^ndocumqne commorante, ifa quod nuUus 
 Successorum suorum processu temporis in eodem 
 aque ductu jus sibi possit vendicare." Regist. Bro- 
 nescombe, fo. 5. 
 
 Eight months after. Bishop Bronesoombe dedi- 
 cated their conventual church, Anno 1269 : "in cras- 
 tino See Catharine Dominus dedicavit ecclesiam Pre- 
 dicatorum apud Exon " 
 
 This church becatAe the; burying place of some of 
 the most illustrious families in Devonshire ; the Mar- 
 tyns, the Calwodeleighs, and many others — but now 
 ^las! •^•--■^ 
 
 Incumbunt tumulis nigra silentia et 
 Altseoblivio gloriee. 
 
 " ' Casimirf, L. 2. Od. 4. 
 
 This establishment was founded by a Bishop of 
 Exeter, perhaps by Richard Blondy. In quality of 
 Bishop of Exeter, Lacy styles himself, 3. Regist. 
 fo.^33. "HujAs dom6s 't^Ji-onus unions & funda- 
 tor." In tjae appendix will be giVfen a charge which 
 iLacy delivered before the general Chapter of the 
 Dominicans held in this very Convent A. D. 1441, at 
 which twenty-five Doctors of divinity and a consider- 
 able number of Masters aiVd "Bachelors of Arts assist- 
 ed^ from various parts of thekih^dbm. It is a curious 
 specimen of the false and barbarous eloquence of the 
 pulpit in the 16th ceniilry. The oiator, however, 
 considered it as such a finished composition, that he 
 has inserted in fb. 232. vol. 3. of his register, " verbum 
 de verbo inclusive," for the admiration and instruction 
 of succeeding ages. > ' 
 
 In 1. Regist. Stafford, fo. 101. mention is 
 made of one David Russell.'a" professed Religious of 
 the Dominican convent in Dublin, being aggregated 
 to the body of Friars preachers at Exeter, by the 
 English provincial, John de Lancastri^, Anno 1412. 
 
 Thomas Chard, Epii^copus Soluforicensis and 
 
 • The English Dominican province combrehended forty-three bouses. 
 The first house was established at Oxford in" 1821. In the diocese of 
 Exeter, there were but two Dominican Ijouses ; the one in this city, the other 
 «t Truro, in Cornwall. " Anno 1269, die Sci Michis dedioavit Dnu» Epus 
 ecclesiam, Fratrum Predicatorum de Truueru,"— Vid. Regist. Brones- 
 «ombe. 
 
M)3 
 
 Bishop OldhaQi's coadjutor, gare ordiDa,tioi)s ia their 
 Dominican church on 27. Sept; 1509. 
 
 As far as I can collect, these Religious were held . 
 in high consideration throughout the diocese, for 
 integrity of morals and skill in theological studies. .. 
 In the regijstered wills, frequent benefaptions tp this 
 religious establishment are recorded. In one of 
 these wills, viz. of John Suyffmore, (Rector of Silfer- 
 ton, and founder of our Lady's chantry, in the parish 
 church tl^ere,) dated 18. June, 18. Edw. IV. the 
 name of the following Prior occurs, " I bequethe 
 to Andrew Scarlett, Priour of the Blak Ffrerys of 
 Exeter, a payre of bedys of rede amber, and a pay re- 
 white amber." Vid. Regist. Bothe, fo. 126. 
 
 The .convent was suppressed 12. Sept. 1538, and 
 granted to John Lord Russell, 4. July, 31. Hen. 
 VIII. (1541) Jenkins (in p. 3g3 of his history,) 
 will have it that this was a " Benedictine monas^- 
 tery, and a foundation oif one of the Abbots of 
 Tavistock, to which it was a cell ; that in this large 
 and sumptuous building were elegant apartments for 
 the lordly Abbots of Tavistock, whenever they came 
 to Exeter." The absurdity of these assertions cannot 
 be better exposed than by copying the Crown grant. 
 
 " Insuper de uberiore gratid nosti^A, special! ac 
 ex certd scientid & mero motu nostris damns & 
 concedimus per presentes pro nobjs, heredibus <fc 
 succesSoribns nostris prefaio Johi Russell, Militi, 
 Baronl Hussell, to tarn domum & scitum nuper 
 Fratriim ^Predicatorum infra Civitatem Exon 
 jam dissolutam ac totam ecclesiam campanile & 
 cemeterium ejusdem dom^s nuper Fratrum Pre- 
 dicatorum, ac dmnia messuagia, domus, edificia, 
 orrea, stabula, columbaria, molendina, stagna, ortos, 
 Pomaria, gardina, curtilagia, terram & solum tarn 
 infra ju*xta'& prope scitum, septum, amfoitum, circui-r 
 turn & precinctum ejusdem domtts nuper Fratrum 
 Predicatorum predictorum existentja, adeo plene & 
 integr^ ac in tam amplis niodo & form^ prput ultimus 
 Prior dicte domus nuper Fratrum Predicatorum prer 
 dictorum, aat aliquis Predecessorum suorum Priorum 
 ejusdem nuper domAs, in jure nuper dpi^As illius, 
 
104 
 
 aliquo teiftpore ante T>issolutionein ejusdem domiis 
 nuper Fratrum Pi-edieatorum, illSni habtieruiit, tenu- 
 erunt vel gavisi fuerunt habuit, tenuit, vel g avisus 
 fuit, s©u habere, fenere vel gaudere debtierunt vel 
 debait." 
 
 In the archives of the Corporation of Exetter is a 
 ideedof 1352, in which Robert, of Otery, occiits as 
 the then Prior of this Doniitiican convent. 
 
105 
 
 FRITHELSTOCK PRIORY* 
 
 J. HIS priory, in the neighbourhood of Hideford, 
 was founded by Sir Robert de Bello Campo, or Beau- 
 champ, about the year 1220, for four Regular Canons 
 of the Order of St. Augustine, besides a Pxior. The 
 Religions of this house were generally procured from 
 Hartjand Abbey ; and at every election of the Priors 
 of Frithelstock, the Abbot of Hartlanil, and any one 
 of the Canops, whom be thought proper to selecJt, 
 had a right to be present and to vote in chapter on 
 the occasion. Moreover the Prior of Frithelstock 
 had always a voice in the election of the Abbots of 
 Hartland. 
 
 The conventual church of Frithelstock was dedi- 
 cated to St. Gregory. 
 
 From the regis]ters, so often quoted, 1 have reco- 
 vered the following succession of Priors : — 
 
 ^ A. D. 
 
 1. Henry Haynes, instituted in 1262 
 
 2. Johel, admitted 25. January, 1275:6 
 
 3. O/jwer occurs Prior in 1311 
 He became so exceedingly infirifl as io be 
 
 obliged, by Bishop Stapeldon, to procure a 
 coadjutor in the person of Hunifridus, aifd 
 finally resigned his office in 1323 
 
 ^. ^ S^ichard de Bittendene occvLVS m 1347 
 
 » I believe this was the Prior who erected a 
 chapel under the title of our Lady, in nemore 
 extra septa Monasterii contra ^aeros "CanoneSt % 
 and had divine service performed in it without 
 any episcopal consecration. Bishop Grandis- 
 
 » Arms. Tairy, Argent * Sable. The shield, I think, op the founder. 
 
106 
 
 A. V. 
 son, in 1361, ordered it, usque ad areain dirui 
 & fundittis demoliri. Vid. 1. Resist, Grandisson, 
 fo. 170. 
 
 5. Thomas Rede occurs Prior in 1373 
 
 6. John Pynnoke, occurs in 1379 
 On the 6". Dec, 1400, Bishop Stafford re- 
 moved this Prior from the administration of 
 
 the temporalities, for his imprudence and extra- 
 vagance. Thomas Rede, a Canon of the house, 
 was charged with their management in his place, 
 1. Reglst. Stafford, fo. 63. 
 This Prior died ear.'y in 1417 
 
 7. Thomas Rede, admitted as his successor 
 
 18. May, 1417 ' 
 
 He (iied 3. Oct. 1434 
 
 8. Walter Hawys, succeeded 14. Oct. that 
 year. He governed ihe house until his death, 
 
 on 4. January, 1468-9 
 
 9. Another Thomas /Rede, elected Prior on 
 the SSnd of the same month. 
 
 Hedied 11. April, 1465 
 
 10. John Smyth, a Monk of Hartland Ahbey, 
 succeeded 20. June, that year. 
 
 1 1 . John Osborne was the h«xt Prior. 
 
 He jdied very late in 1508 
 
 12. Thomas Pa»-r,confirmed Prior on tlie 10th 
 of the following February. 
 
 This Thomas Parr, with Richard Walter, 
 Suh-Prior, and three others, subscribed ^o 
 the King's supremacy, 2. Sept. 1634 
 
 13. JoAn (S^r^eon was the last Prior. 
 
 He was alive in 1553, in the receipt of a pension 
 oi£\% 6. 8. 
 
 The antiual revenues of the prlory'amounted to 
 £127. 2. 4J. 
 
 In the 29th'of Hen. VIH. the scite of the priory 
 was granted to Arthur Plantagenet, afterwartls 
 Viscount Lisle. 
 
 In the taxatio, I find the following memorandum : 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Prior de Ffrethelstock habet apnd Freithel- 
 
 stok qd tax 3 1 7 
 
 Apud Wyk & Langeford qd taxatur ad 1 9 4 
 
1-07 
 
 TpTNES PRIOR7. 
 
 1 HIS priory, aedicafed to Saint J\Jary, was a cell 
 to the great Benedictine alibey of Saints Sergius and 
 Bacchus, at Angers ; and was endowed, duting the 
 Teign of William the Conqueror, by Judhell, or 
 Joel, the pioas founder of the house of St. Mat^ 
 Magdalene, at Barnstaple. Roger de Nuatte, wha 
 succeeded to Joel's esta^tes, was at first very hostile 
 to thisinfant establishment ; but afterwards befriended 
 it to such a degree, as to be mistaken by Leland for 
 its original founder. Roger's heir was one of the 
 Zouches ; and the presentation of thfe Priors subsisted 
 in this family until the accession of King Henry VII. 
 when the head of the fainily was attainted fOr sup- 
 porting the cause of Richard 111. and the ri^t of 
 jSatroriage was conferred by the Crown oh Sir Peter 
 Edgcumbe. 
 
 The conventual chuirch was dedicated by Bishop 
 Bronescombe, 17. Nov. 1260. 
 
 The names of the following Pjriors occur in the 
 a-egisters: — 
 
 A. D. 
 I . Nicholas, who occurs in 1259 
 
 He was stillPrior in . 1283 
 
 2., John occurs in the year 1285 
 
 •3. Jocelyn, who died in J323 
 
 This Prior was severely admonished ofi23. 
 March 1316-7, by Bishop Stapeldon, and 
 threatened with the heaviest ecclesiastical cen- 
 sures, if he persisted in his scandalous neglect qf 
 4he duty (;>f residence.— Vid. Regist, fo. itk. 
 4. Robert de Conkd succeeded. 
 Bishop Ggrandisson informed King Edward. 
 i 2 
 
108 
 
 A. D^ 
 rri. 1334, that tbJis Prior received the follow- 
 ing annual pensions : — 
 From Alwington Church 2 marks, 
 
 Stokenham 20s. 
 
 De la Pole 16s. 
 
 Pyworthy lOs. 
 
 Corneworthy 1 mark. 
 
 Ashpringtow .,., .- 6marks. 
 
 Loddiswell 6 marks. 
 
 Harberton 6s. 
 
 The parish churches of. Totnes, Brixham. . 
 aud Clyfton, in the gift of the priory, were then 
 taxed at £36. 13. 4. 
 
 This Robert was suspended 24. Dec. 1348, 
 for his dilapidations and imprudence'. He 
 seems to have been better adapted for a sports- 
 man than a Religious. 
 
 5. Michael Bouges, admitted 25. Dec, IS5^ 
 
 6. John le Rouges .succeeded. 
 
 He- died in 1372 
 
 6. John Boners was the next Pn'or. 
 
 H« died in 1382' 
 
 Tn 1375 Bishop Brantyngbam informed King 
 Edward IIT. that the appropriation of Clyfton 
 church was valued at £40. per annum, 
 
 of Totness parish church at £10. 
 of Brixham do. at £40. 
 
 Ermington church paid annually to the priory 
 2 marks, 
 
 Corneworthy paid 30s. 
 
 8. TAoJwas Syn/orde succeeded 8. March, 1382-3^ 
 and resigned, after governing the house twenty- 
 four years. 
 
 9. John Soulham, instituted II. June, 1'407 
 I observe that he presented to Broadclyst • 
 
 church in 1413 
 
 10. Thomas Southam occurs Prior in 1415 
 In the summer of 1439 bad health obliged ^ 
 
 him to resign. He was to enjoy a pension of 
 twenty-four marks per an. and to be allowed 
 the chamber which he had built in the priory. 
 
 11. Bi'cAarrf S/oAre, instituted 27. August, 1439- 
 He died very late in 1468i 
 This Prior, by hi« deed bearing date 3, April,, 
 
109 
 
 A. D. 
 '21. Hen. VI. granted " £x. qperi novi cano- 
 '})anilis fiendi in occidental! parte ecclesie pa- 
 rochlalis Tottoniei" 
 
 12. fVULiam Harry, confirmed on the 6th of 
 the following February, and died Prior after a 
 government of thirty-'three years. 
 
 13. William Coke succeeded on the presen- 
 tation of King Henry VII. rafioue minoris etatis 
 Petri Eggecombe. 
 
 14. JoAm iJedOTM^we occurs Prior in 1501 
 
 15. Robert HiU, who died late in 1526 
 
 16. Henry Goom, instituted onthe 3d of the 
 ensuing March, and resigned five months aftei 
 -on a .pension of forty marks. 
 
 17. Edmund Coker, a. Monk of Glastonbury, 
 succeeded 12. Aug. 1527, and resigned a few 
 months after. 
 
 18. Thomas Rychard succeeded in the fol- 
 lowing Februaryj and, T "believe, was the last 
 Prior. 
 
 The revenues of (he priory were valued, at the 
 Dissolution, at £124. 10s. 2|. perannam. 
 
 £. -s. d. 
 In the taxatio it is stated, Prior Tottorr, 
 
 habet Greston quod taxatur 2 
 
 Ashprington tax 3 3 4 
 
 Summa £5 3 4 
 
 Decima ^0 1-0 4 
 
 In the 33d year of King Henry VIII. the scite of 
 sthe priory was granted to Katharine Champernoh, 
 -John Ridgway, and Walter Smith- 
 Peter Eggdcombe had endeavoured to obtain 'the 
 temporalities of this priory and of Cornwoffhy, 
 but failed in the attempt. The following letter, 
 which he addressed to secretary Cromwellj will, 
 we flatter ourselves, be highly acceptable to our 
 areaders : — 
 
 Cotton MSS. Cleopatra. E. iv. P. 144. page 258. 
 " A After my mast harty rec'mendacyons w' lyke 
 .feancks ffor your goodnes to me att tymys shewyd 
 
110 
 
 and thys, ys to advertysse yow y' here ys nioche 
 comunycacyon and brute y* all abbeys pryorys and 
 nunrys .under the cler yerly valew off ce^'' shall be 
 suppressyd nottw*stondynge hyt ys nott as ' yett io' 
 thes pties olponly kaowen the occacyon off suppres- 
 syon nor who shall take most Benyffyte therby nor 
 to whate usse hyt shall rest at lengthe. But trew 
 hyt ys y* I am by the kynggs ffather by hys grauiit 
 to. my poor ffather made tp ^m and hys issue male 
 ffounder off the pryory off Tjottenes and the Nunry 
 off Cornworthye in devonsshyr and ey'fy off them 
 be unde;]c the valew off cq'^ and as to Tottenes the- 
 pryor ther ys d man off goode vertuUs conv'ssacy'oh 
 and a good viander and I can do lesse w', my truthe- 
 and dewty but to ady'tysse yow off y* I know trew 
 in ys cause hartely beseehyhge yow so to adrertyse 
 the kynggs hynes and y* J in my most u'byll maner 
 beseche hys grace' tQ order me in ys cause as onne 
 y* wyll juberd lyff and goods to do hys grace trew 
 service and hartety beggeche allmyghty god longge to> 
 p'ss've, hys most nobyll p'sson and, yow so to' serve 
 Jiyss hyghnes ffro' my poor h'owse the day off annun- 
 eyacyon of o' lady your own 
 
 P. Eggdcombe. 
 Mr. Secretary in case liyt be sso y^ the. kynggs 
 -pleass' maye be by your meaii'ys so good y* , 
 the p'or of Tottenes .. maye enioye the spiritual! 
 -p'mocyons and hyt wyll be no better ffor hym and 
 Bys, breder' to leye on and_l to have the temporal 
 possessyons of p'te theroff the sunner ffor con'cyde- 
 racyonsy* I am ffounder pff bo the howgsys I p'mysse 
 yow by y" my wrtynge to cp'cyder your favor and 
 sute as I trust to please yow and yff ye thihdk my ^ute 
 nott ressonabyll I refferre me and niy cause only to- 
 your order under the kyri^-gs hyghnes above all! 
 ethers lyvynge, ai^d so I trust yow and herein I 
 hartely p'ye yow to know your pleass'." 
 V The preceding is, decidedly, a letter written by 
 ■Sir Piers Eggecombe ("now spelt Ed^eumbe) to Sir 
 Thomas Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex, the 
 ;Poted Viear Gene]5'al pf Hen. VIII. Sir 'Piers, who= 
 had been Sheriff of Devon, 10. Hen. VII. and 20. 
 Hen. VIII. was son of Sir Richard Eggecombe,C6mp- 
 
Ill 
 
 troller of the Household, and Privy Counsellor to the 
 former of these Monarchs, who employed him as 
 ambassador to various states ; and was father of Sir 
 Richard Eggecombe, who built Mount-Edgcumbe 
 house, and appears to have been well known to 
 Cromwell. The result of a careful comparison of 
 some of the following authorities, fixes the date of 
 the letter t.Q 25. Majroh, 15'3Q^. XII. Rym. Foed, 279. 
 328. 348. 357.'362. 394» XHl. Idem. 296^ XfV. Idem. 
 478. 629. Stat. 27. Hen. VIII. c. 28. And see 
 Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 281. & seq. anjl^. 
 Cpriier's Eceles. Hist. pp. 155. ISO. ; ■ ' ' ' ' 
 
 In iiacy's Register, vol. 3. fo. S.02, is copied the will 
 of WiUiam Ryder, of Totnes, bearing date 18; Nov. 
 1432 : he desires to be buried " in Cemiterio Eclclesie 
 B. Marie de Totton in itinere )PxQeessionali;iijiIxta 
 Ecclesiam Prioris & Convent^s de Totton ex opposito 
 magna Attaris ejusdem Ecclesie." . . 
 
 ^ observe, in Bishop Stapeldod's. Register, that he 
 frequently conferred ordinadons in this conventual 
 church. 
 
 There was a chantry saper pontem— ad finem 
 ■Pontis de Totton, dedicatedto St. Edmund, King aqd 
 MaTtyr, and St. Edward the Confessor, to which the 
 Zquche family presented. The chapel of the Holy 
 Ghost and of St. Cathsirine, at WarJorid, near Tot- 
 nes, was begun to be erected, 1,270, "proximA:4ie 
 Veneris post festum S. Matthei Apli, reeepit Dnus 
 Epusseysinam domnum & gardiniiWalteri de Boii & 
 uxoris sue de consensu eorundem an prgseaifeiA'multi- 
 tudinis & precepit ut capella iljl construerp'tur in 
 npmine Sancti Spiritds & Beate Katharine :iEirgin is." 
 Vid. Reglsti Brdtaescdmbe fo. Si7. . Generally a Piriest 
 of the'Order of the 'Holy Trinity of the house 'of 
 " Hondeslowej;' in the diocese of Loindon, was ap- 
 ^poinied to serve this ^bapel;— buA-the -collation- to it 
 was absolutely..viested in the Bis.Ijflp^of Exetet.— Vid. 
 2. |leg. Stafford, fo. 63. BishopOldam at last annesed 
 the chapel to the Vicars' Cpjlege in fixeter.-^- Vfd , 
 ■ Regist. Oldam, fo. 49. 
 
n^ 
 
 CANONSLEIGH NUNNER\\* 
 
 TV^ILLIAM CLAVILL, Lord of Burlescombe, 
 near Tiverton, founded a house for Canons Regular 
 of the Rule of St. Augustine, towards the latter end of 
 the 12th century. 
 
 I hare met with the names of two Priors only. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1. Henry de Crewnmake, admitted by Bishop 
 Bronescombe, 17. Dee. v, 1260 
 
 2!. William de Honeton, instituted by Bishop 
 Quivill , ^6. Feb. J 282-3 
 
 In the interesting document given in the Appendix 
 (o) and dated as far back as 1219, it is stated, that 
 the Prior of Plympton was always to receive notice 
 when a Prior was to be elected at Canonsleigh,t in 
 order that he might assist at the election, if he judged 
 proper ; but still, without the right and liberty of 
 voting. If the community could not agree in the 
 ■choice of a Prior from their own convent, they were 
 to elect any Canon they pleased from the monastery 
 of Plympton, in preference to any house of the Ruje 
 of St. Augustine. 
 
 Scarcely had two y«ars elapsed from the institu- 
 tion of the Prior, William de Honeton, when the 
 monastery was made over (for what reason I cannot 
 
 * In a deed, penes Majoram & Communitatem Civitatis Eion, is a 
 release of tbe claim to a liouse in Exeter, by the Prior and Convent of 
 Canonsleigb. Bartholomew, Archdeacon of Exeter, (who died in Sept. 
 1847,) is a subscribing witness. Tbe seal represents the Blessed Virgin 
 and St. John standing under the Cross. Tbe only words of the inscription 
 remaining are, Marie et Sci Jobis Evan. 
 
 f This religious establishment at Legh, retains its original name of Ca- 
 nonsleigb, from the Canons who first settled tbere. Iti some ancient records, 
 it is called Myncbyqleye, from;t)ie Nuns who succeeded these Canons. 
 
113 
 
 discover) lo Rej^ular Canonesses of (he same Ordei-. 
 The noble Lady Matilda, the Cou&less of Gloucester 
 and Herefordj undertook' to endow the new commu- 
 nity. On the 16tfa of August, 1285, 1 find she had 
 deposited six hundred marks in Bishop Quivill's 
 hands, for the use and advantage of the Nunnery, 
 " in opus & utilitatem Abbathie de Lyge." — Vid. 
 Regisf Quivill, fo. 129. 
 
 Bishop Stapeldon,fo. 86. Regist. states^that she had 
 assembled no less than fifty Religious women at 
 Canonsleigb, and had proposed to endow the con- 
 vent with sufficient lands and revenues ; but that her 
 prematnre death, and a combination of troublesome 
 occurrences, had prevented the accomplishment of 
 her pious intentions; and that the community in 
 consequence was left in the most deplorable situation. 
 In compassion for their distress, this considerate 
 Bishop appropriated to their use and enjoyment 
 the parish church of Donesford, 5. August, 1314. 
 Three days after, the convent bound themselves to 
 pay the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, the annual 
 sum of four marks, on the Feast of the Invention 
 of the Holy Cross. This pension, I believe, was di- 
 rected by Bishop Stapeldon, to be distributed amongst 
 the residentiary Canons of his cathedral. 
 
 On 17. June, 1333, Bishop Grandisson appro- 
 priated to them the parish church of Rofekbear. 
 Amongst other articles specified in the grant, he 
 desires " ut de praventibus Ecclesie de Rockbeare 
 assignetur ^d * Servissiam suam meliorandum singulis 
 septimanis unus bussellus frumenti.'WVid 2,,Regist. 
 Grandisson, fo. 6-7, 
 
 This Religions house was dedicated to the Blessed 
 Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Etheldreda, 
 the saintly Abbess of Ely, who died in 679. 
 
 I can recover but the few following names of the 
 Abbesses : — 
 
 A. D. 
 
 I . Margarei Avnger, who died in the sum- 
 mer of 1345 
 
 Cerevisiaai. 
 
rr4 
 
 A. D. 
 
 2. JM/t«?iaLa»ipre,confirmedashersuccessor 
 18. October thai year, 
 
 3. Lucy Warr, who died 1 1. Oct. 1410 
 
 4. Mary BertMcAa»wp succeeded 3. Dec. that 
 year. 
 
 She died 6. December, 1449 
 
 6. Jane Arundell succeeded 19. March fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 6. Elisabeth Fouhill, or Fowell, the last 
 Prioress, who surrendered her convent 16. Feb. 1638 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 At the Dissolution, the revenues of 
 the convent were annually, according 
 to Dugdale, 197 3 1 
 
 Speed computes thejryalue at 202 15 3 
 
 In the 'iaxalio I read as follows : — * 
 
 Abbas de LeyS. percipit de Honesham 10 
 
 Apud Douppford JO 
 
 Apud Lomeneghderedd ... 18 6 
 
 Apud Bichetpri ,.....;.,.., 14 
 
 ApudRcggelier....... 1 3 4 
 
 The churches of Hockeford, (Oakford) Burles- 
 combe, Rockbear, Bridestow and Dunsff^rd, were in 
 their gift. They had property in Henipston Arun- 
 dell alitor Lytel_Hempstan, in the county of Devon ; 
 at Mordeojin the county of Dorset ; and at Chepyn, 
 in the county of Somerset, as I Shd in their leases.' 
 
 The following pensions ijvere granted 17. May. 31. 
 Hea.VllI. ■ -> ', 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 To the Abbess, Elizabeth Fowell. ..40 
 
 Margaret Pollard .' 6 
 
 Thomasine Sutton 6 
 
 Elizabeth Carewe 5 
 
 Jane Abree 4 
 
 Jane'Bowyer. 4 
 
 Agnes Dulond 4 
 
 Pheljppa Fortescue 4 
 
 SabinaCowystone 4 
 
 Christina Holbayne 4 
 
 Elena Ayssheforde .......;.. 4 
 
 Alice Bounde ......; 4 
 
 Mary Pomeri 4 
 
115 
 
 £. » d 
 
 Elizabelh Chudley 4 
 
 Agnes Pery 4 
 
 Agnes Bratton 4 
 
 Sibilla Fovvelt 2 
 
 Henry VIII. 30. December, 31&t year of bfs reign , 
 leased this monastery and its estates in Devon and 
 Somerset, to Thomeis de Gorlemont, of London^ 
 gentlem£(i0',j f6r,a term of twenty-one years, for the 
 annual sum of £2S. 14. 2. 
 
 Four years after, for what reason I know not, the 
 King granted the seite of the nunnery, to John St. 
 Leger, esq. 
 
 There wks a chapel dedicated to All Saints^ 
 infra Monasterium de Legh ; and another dedicated 
 to the Holy Trinity, at Wes'tlefgh, in 'Kurlescombe 
 parish. — Vide 1. Regfst. ^Jrantyngham, fo. 220. ad. 
 ann. 1391. 
 
 Another chapeT of St, Thomas, infr'a Moha'sterhim 
 de Legh, is mentioned lb fo. 195.ad. atin. 1388. 
 
 There was an " hohesta capella Sci Theobalds 
 Monasterio de Legh conti^u'a". — Ib.fo. 50. ad. ann. 
 1373. 
 
Ji'6 
 
 CORN WORTHY PRIORY. 
 
 1. AM not able to satisfy myself concerDing the 
 founder of this pritwy. The foundation has beea 
 assigned to the Edgt;umbe family; but I think the 
 arguments are in favor of the Zouches. 
 
 In the registers, the priory as generally styled 
 Augustine : in one or two instances, however,' it is 
 £aid to be Benedictine ; but this is probably a mistake 
 of the Bishop's Secretary. The community was 
 smalL Tanner says, it was founded for seven Rell- 
 , gious women 4 but I observe that only five Nuns had 
 a voice at the election of Honora Vyvyart, 28. May, 
 1461. On account of the poverty of the convent, 
 it was generally exempted from paying the King's 
 tenth. The Religious presented to the churches of 
 Cornworthy, Clawton and Merland. 
 
 N-AJMES OF PRIORESSES. 
 
 A. I). 
 1. Jane Fisher, who died early in 1334 
 
 a. Mabilla de Bradford sucofeeded. 
 
 3. Jane hucy, who died 3. Oct. 14IJ 
 
 4. Eleanor Blake succeeded on 28. next 
 Fehniary. 
 
 5. Margaret fFkirtheham. 
 
 She resigned her office eady in 1461 
 
 6. Honora Vyvyan succeeded her on 28, May 
 that year. 
 
 7. Thomasina Dt/nham occurs Prioress 1 501 
 She resigned late in 1515 
 8- Avista Dynham, elected as her successor 
 
 oB-30. of the ensuing month of January. 
 
117 
 
 Bishop Veysey addressed a mandate to this Prioress, 
 2. Reg. fo. 7. 
 
 At the Dissolution, the priory was valued at 
 £63. 3. per annum. ' 
 
 In the second year of EltZabeth, the priory was. 
 granted to Edward Harris and John Williams. 
 
 Bishop Veysey' s Mandate, dated from Chudleigli, 
 1&. Jan. 1520-1. 
 John by God's permission Bishop of Excet, to 
 owre wel belovyd Systers in Criiste, the Priores and 
 oovent of Corneworthy, salutyng in o Lord Jho. 
 Forasmych we enterly desyre to purge the sladnder 
 that hath ensued yn yo Howse by trasgression of 
 Religion, We have sende youe certyn o ordlnas ae- 
 cordinge to the Lawys of Holy Church yri Engleshe, 
 the rather by you to be understoud and kept as here 
 after folowynge shall evydentiy apere. Ffurst we eom- 
 maunde youe Prioress in veitu of Obedience to see 
 Divine Serves in due tyme, place and forme by the 
 hoole eovent, except age, sykenes or other lawful! 
 evydent eawse lett, be devoutly withowte vayne 
 coreacon celebrate accordynge to yo nombre, as yn 
 other devoute places of yor religion it is observed 
 and kepte. Fforthermore nyghtly ye Priores with 
 all the Covent to rest in one Dorter, all several! 
 chambers and baokedores utterly excluded. Also in 
 the Frat' togeders take y repast atlendyng to yor 
 contemplative lectour there to be redde. Also that 
 ye use no pompos apparell ; bnt such as ys used in the 
 sadde Howses of yr Religion. Also we inhibette youe 
 to receve Sugeners withowte or speciall licence, com- 
 maundynge youe Priores in veriue of obedience to 
 remove from yor house withyn a moneth after the 
 reeepcon hereoflf all the servauntes nott necessary 
 for the place, and also Bryton and his wyffe for con- 
 sideracons reasonable which we shall disclose unto 
 youe hereaft. Alway ye and the covent havyngein 
 yor remembrance the thre substancialls of yor Reli- 
 gion which ye have prqfessed. Ffyrst obedience, 
 forsakynge yr awnwe ylle. Seeunde, chastite, for 
 the violacon whereoff withoute great repentance and 
 bye m'ey of God, is sorrow ppetuail. The thyrde, 
 abdicacon of Propete, forsakynge the worldle soUcj- 
 
118 
 
 liide. F/ro the betC eonsprvacon whereofF; and that 
 ye Priores may the rather give yselffe to cpntiPnipJar 
 <con and religious conversacon. We utterly inhihet 
 youe to intermeddle yn yor awne person^ with any 
 uttwaide husbandre, wandrynge yn the fylds and 
 other prophane places irreligiously oute of the Priorie 
 and that all such exleriour besynes be done by some 
 discreet virtuouse man that can and woU diligely and 
 polytycMy do the same. Tbes premisses with aH 
 other rulis and observaunces of yor Religion accord- 
 yng to ye nombre, we commaunde youe Priores 
 under the payne of the lawe to be eflfectually kepte 
 opynly punii&hed, redde and declared that ye and 
 yor Systers too herynge them, jway observe the 
 same to the eonfusyon of a goostly enymye the 
 Devyil, salvacon of ye sawles, honor of- Religion and 
 owre excuse before God. God encrease youe with 
 hys vertue and hys grace, 
 
 Wryten the, place, day oi the monlli, and yere 
 above sayd. 
 
119 
 
 MODBUHY PRIORY. 
 
 X HERE was a house of Monks Aliens of the 
 " French Order at Modbyri. The scite of their 
 " mansion is yet scene on the north side of the 
 " chirehe. The founder was there scant knowen. 
 " I take it that Ruan or Oxton were founders of it. 
 " This priory, with the personage of Mpdbyri impro- 
 *< priate was given yti King Edward IV. iyme to 
 " Eyeton college." — So far Leland in his Itin. vol. 3. 
 p. 48. 
 
 This account is very imperfect. It is certain, 
 "from the registers of this See, that the honor of the 
 fciundation is to be ascribed to the Cbarabernoun 
 family, ca:lled in Latin De Campo Arnulphi ; and 
 that the right of patronage continued in that family* 
 until the dispiersiOn of the community. It further 
 appears, from the registers, that the establishment 
 consisted of two Monks and a Prior ; and that it de- 
 pended on the great Benedictine House,t Sanctae 
 Mafiee de Sancto Petro super Dynam in the diocese 
 of Seez, in Normandy, the Abbots of which exclu- 
 sively nominated the Prfors of Modbury. 
 
 • ^his ancient family resided formerly at Modbury. The ancient house 
 and domain of Dartington, where the family has now fixed its residence, 
 ■was originally the property of the ^lartyns. 1 find that the Martyns pre- 
 sented to St. Mary's church, at Dartington, in 1261, in 1318, and in 1349— 
 that afterwards it passed into the Cornfewayll fanoily — then into the Dukes 
 of Exeter : that Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, and mother of 
 King Henry VII. presented in 1499— that King- Henry VHI. presented 
 in July 1511,' and that Henry Courtenay, Knight of the Garter, Baron of 
 Oakhampton and Plympton, Earl of Devon, and Marquess of Exeter, pre- 
 sented in the month of July, A. D. 1521 . 
 
 t Dagdale seems to have been unacquainted with the existence of this 
 abbey. 
 
120 
 
 Venprabili in Xto Patri, Domino Dei gratid Abbati 
 Monaster!! Beate Marie de Sancto Pefro supra 
 Dynam in NormanniA Johannes fGrandissonus) mise- 
 ratione ejusdem Exon Epus salutem'& si nee ram in 
 Domino caritatem. Relatione queruia nobilis viri 
 Domini Rioardi de Campo Arnulphi, Domini de 
 Modbury, Militis, repetitis vieibus nostrisest auribus 
 Inculcafum, qtlod licet in PrioratA dicli loci, qui ex 
 devotione Progenitoium snorum fundAti dignoscitur, 
 duo consuerunt & debuerunt monachi de vestro 
 Monaslerio assumendi, nostr^que auctoritate appro- 
 bandi, loci ejusdem un4 cum Priore recipi & admittr, 
 unusfamen monachus contra intenlionem Fundatoris 
 per vos noviier est adjunctus, propter quod Hospita- 
 litas in eodem PrioratA seivari & alia incumbentia 
 eidem comode nequeynt onera supportari, eo quod 
 ex liac causA premissA Prioratfisnon suppetunt facnl- 
 tatts. Nos igitur.ex injunoto nobis sollcitudiuis debito 
 cupientes laudabjle Fundatoris hujus propqsitum 
 prosequi & fovere, fratrem Nicholaum de Curceyo, 
 monachum vestrum, exhibitorem presencium nuper 
 inibi residentem ad relevationem oncris & expensa- 
 rum hujusmodi, ad vos duximus, pront convenit, 
 remittendum. Ad tutelam & fegimen gregis vestri 
 diOi in Domino valeatis, qui spiritum consilii & fortitu- 
 dinis vobis tribuat in agendis. Datum in manerio 
 nostro de Chuddelegh idibusJanuarii A. D. 1328. Ex 
 2. Regist. Grandisson, fo. 104. 
 
 This being an alien priory, its temporalities were 
 often seized by the Crown during the wars. between 
 England and France. In the reign of * Henry YI. 
 it was iBnally dissolved, and its revenues appropri?ited 
 to his noble foundation of Eton College. A short 
 time after King Edward IV. conveyed this very pro- 
 perty to his favourite abbey of Tavistock ; but it was 
 afterwards restored 'to Eton College, probably by 
 King Henry Vll. 
 
 Th,e revenues, at the period of the dissolution of 
 the priory, were rated at £70. per annum. 
 
 • Diigdale is incorrect in stating tliat Modbury Priory vc as dissolved In 
 1414, second yeiir of Henry V. William Benselyn being conftraied Srioi; 
 by Bislioi). Lncy, in Marcli 1429-3Qr. 
 
121 
 
 In the Taxatio 1 read as follows: — • 
 Prior de Modbury habet in Penwyk 
 quod taxatur £2 3 4 
 
 Decioia 4 4 
 
 I believe the following to be a complete succession 
 of the Priors from the year 1270 until the dissolution 
 of the house in the reign of King Henry VI. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1. Vincent de FuJchis, adn^iitted 21. July, 1275 
 
 2. Nicholas, confirmed as Prior 21. Sept. 1321 
 On tlws occasion John de Oxton, Knight, 
 
 presented to Bishop Stapeldon. 
 
 3. fVilliam occurs Prior in 1334 
 , During his governinent, Modbury church, 
 appropriated to the priory, was rated at £10. 
 
 per an. — Vid. Grandisson's Register. 
 
 4. John de Ffovea, admitted 14. JunCj 1345 
 
 5. John Galterus, admitted 9. June, 1349 
 He died in , 1351 
 
 6. Robert de Curceyo succeeded, and died 
 early in 1362 
 
 7. Philip de Ffurnariis, succeeded 5. April 
 that year. 
 
 On the occasion of his presentation, the fol- 
 lowing letters, which are copied from 2 Regist. 
 Grandisson, fo. 141. passed between the Abbot 
 of our Lady de Sancto Petro and Thomas 
 Champernowne : — 
 
 Nobili & potenti viro Thome de Campo Ar- 
 nuiphi, Domino Modburie, frater Hebertus per- 
 missione diviuA Abbas Monasterii Beate Marie 
 de Sancto Petro super Dynam, Ordinis Sci Be- 
 nedict!, Sagiensis Diocesis, totnsque ejusdem 
 loci Conventus, salutem in eo qui est omni vera 
 salus. 
 
 Ad Prioratum nostrum Modburie liberum & 
 vacantem per mortem Roberti de Curceyo, diet! 
 Monasterii nostri Monachi,' ultimi immediati 
 Prioris ejusdem PripratAs, Religiosum virum 
 fratrem Philippnm Ffurnarii, Monasterii nostri 
 Monachum, Presbyterum & Professum, & lau- 
 dabiliter in dieto Monasferio nostro conversa- 
 tum, in quantum vos tangit «fe quantum in jure 
 
 K 
 
122 
 
 tenemur, ad regimen died Prioratds nostri vobis 
 nominamus per presentes literas & per vos Reve-' 
 rendoia Chrislo Patri ac Dno Dno Exonien Epo 
 ipsum mittimus presentandum, vobis humiliter 
 supplicanfes, quatenils enndem, ad nomina- 
 tioDem nostram prediotam, caritatis ^ intuitu 
 vobis placeat predicto Reverendo Patri libere 
 presentare & ipsum in agendis suis Monasterii 
 nostri intuitu consulere & favorabiliter confo- 
 vere. Bene & diu valeat in Dno vestra Domi- 
 natio nobis cara. Septum* & actum in Abbatfeid 
 nostra 34 die Mareii A. D. 1361. 
 
 Tenor Presentationis facte per Thomam de 
 Campo Arnulphi-. 
 
 Venerabili in Xto Patri ac Dno Dno Johi Dei 
 gratis, Exon Epo, suus, si placet, hnmllis & de- 
 votus Thonvas de Campo Arnulphi, obedientiam- 
 & reverentiam cum honore. 
 
 Ad Prioratum Modburie, vestre Diocesis per 
 mortem fratris Roberti die Curceyo, ultimi & im- 
 mediati Prioris ejusdem Prioratlis vacantem 
 & ad meam presentationem speetantenr, fratrem 
 Philippum Ffurnarii, monachum Monasterii 
 Beate Marie de Sancto Petro super Dynam, 
 Ordinis Sci Benedicti, Sagiensis Diocesis, Pres- 
 byterum & Professum, ac per fratrem Heberfum, 
 Abbatem Monaslerii prediefi & ejusdem loci 
 Conventum michi nominatum, vestre Paternitati 
 Reverende Presento per presentes, humiliter 
 supplicans & devote, quatenCis eundem Phi- 
 lippum in Priorem dioti Prioratlis ad meam pre- 
 sentationem admittere velitis, ceteraque vestro 
 officio Pastorali incumbentia, caritatis intuitu 
 peragere dignemini. In eujus rei testimonium 
 sigillum meum presentibus apposui. Datum 
 apud Modbury quarto die Mensis Aprilis 1362. 
 8. Gilbert de Billeyo succeeded. 
 He died prior in the spring of 1375 
 
 In his time Modbury church was taxed £20. 
 per annum. 
 
 i. e. Cueptum. 
 
123 
 
 A. D. 
 
 9. John Mychel succeeded, and resigned his 
 office at the end of twenty-three years. 
 
 10. John Rogger succeeded early in 1398 
 and was -translated 18. l>ec. 1406, to the office 
 
 of Prior of Tywardrayth, Cornwall. 
 
 11. Richard Leyces/re, admitted on 27th of 
 the following February. 
 
 He died Prior late in the year 1415 
 
 12. William Tfranchillon succeeded on 9th 
 of the following January. 
 
 He resigned in the summer of 1423 
 
 13. Adam Prianho, or de Pratellis aV Pry- 
 deaux, appointed Prior 18. July, 1423 
 
 14. William Bewse/yw succeeded 18. March, 
 1429-30, and, I believe, was the last Prior of 
 Mod bury. 
 
 K t 
 
124--. 
 
 BARNSTAPLE PRIORY.* 
 
 J^HIS Cluniac priory, dfldicated to St. Mary Mag- 
 dalene, was founded in the reign of William the Con- 
 queror, by Joel, the son of Alured, and made de- 
 pendent on Sti Martin's in the Fields, near Paris. 
 In the deed of foundation, (which may be seen 
 1. Dugd. Monast. p. 684.) Joel grants to the Religious, 
 Pilton, with the wood and marsh, Pilland ; the mill 
 at Barnstaple; all the land witKoutlhe walls between 
 the north and the east gates, with all the waters, fish, 
 '&e. moreover, the church of Barnstaple, and. the 
 chapel of St. Sabinus, with their appurtenances. 
 
 From a passage, Regist. Bronescombe fo. 33. it 
 appears, that the community consisted of thirteen 
 members. Being an alien priory, its revenues were 
 frequently seized during the wars between England^ 
 and France. But at last it was made denizen, pro- 
 bably in the reign of Henry VI. and so it continued 
 until the general suppression of. religious houses. 
 The registers supply the following series of the 
 Priors from the year 1265 : — 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1. Simon Gurneye,, admitted Prior in August 1265 
 
 2. Theobald de Curtipalaiio followed 2Q. 
 June, 1275 
 
 3. John occurs Prior in the year 1314 
 
 4. John de SancU Gemmd. 
 
 He scandalously neglected the duty of resi- 
 dence, and was obliged to tender his resig- 
 nation to Bishop Grandisson, late in the year 1332 
 
 5. John iSo^ersucceeded 18th of the following 
 March. 
 
 * Arms. Gules, a bend. Or,- a Label of three Points Argent. 
 
125 
 
 A. D. 
 
 6. Imbertus de Gaumachiis, admitted oij the 
 death of John Soyer, 10. Dec. 1334 
 
 7. Reginaldus Pirdoc succeeded 9, Dec. 1349 
 and resigned in the summer of 1351 
 
 8. i?05re»* .Ka^M, admitted 7. Novemb^i;, 1351 
 He died soon after. 
 
 9. Richard Carre, or Cary, succeede<}> and 
 -died late in the year 13T6 
 
 Whilst he was Prior, the parish chufph of 
 Barflstaple* was valued at 200 marh;sv 
 
 10. litt^A CAeZfAaOTj who died eariy in 1392 
 
 11. Henry SmWom succeeded 28. May the same 
 year, and died six years after. 
 
 12. Simon SeZe, admitted in September, 1398 
 and died 15. June, 1428 
 
 13. Hugo X(^<oM sucpeeded-28. July, the sanje ~ 
 year, and died 16. December, 1461 
 
 14. Jqhn PyJlon was confirmed as bis §uq- ,, , 
 cessor. 
 
 15. Jo^n /Z/raco/w&e, who resigned early i;P l^^ 
 
 16. J.ohn,,PyUon followed, and after goyern- 
 .ing the priory, 16 years, resign^id on a pengjon 
 
 of £2:0. . ' . J , 
 
 17. Robert Thorn succeeded 12. Aug. Ii5^§ 
 In Risdon's Survey of Devon, p. 327, we read, 
 
 that " this Prior, for his device, bare a roe- 
 buck leaping to a ha^thctrne in an escutcheon, 
 with the word Bert interposed, and this uftd^f- 
 written : Caprum cum spinA protegat divina 
 potestas." 
 
 He surrendered his convent to ,the King's 
 Commissioners 4. Feb. 27. Hen. VIII. 
 
 He was alive in 1653, and in the enjoyment 
 of a pension of £14. per annum. 
 
 The revenues of the priory were valued at £123.6. 7. 
 according to Dugdale, though Speed rates them at 
 £129, 15. 3. • 
 
 In the Taxatio I read as follows: — £. s. d. 
 
 Prior de Barnstapol percipit in capellis dB 
 
 Clifton & Hatheline 3 
 
 In eeclesii de Barnstapol I 10 
 
 * This parish churchy with its high altar and three other altars, was con- 
 ^seerated by Bishop Stapeldon^ 9. Sept. 13IS. 
 
126 
 
 £. s. d. 
 [n ecclesii de Ffremyton 8 
 In eccia de Hamme (George) 2 
 In DecEDatu Barum de tern's & redditibus 2 10 
 Apud Waleworthi et Kymelonde tax ad 15 
 In the grant, of the priory and its estates to Lord 
 William Howard, of Effingham, 9. March, 29. Hen. 
 VIII. it is stated, that the Vicar of Barnstaple used 
 annually to pay to the convent of St. Mary Mag- 
 dalene 100s. 
 
 The Rector of Georgeham used to pay 100s. 
 
 The Rector of Fremington SOs. 
 
 The Borough of Barnstaple 40s. 
 
 £13 10 
 
 For a copy of the Royal Grant see Appendix (p). 
 
 In Regist. Grandisson, fo. 154. I observe the 
 Bishop approves and confirms the grant of a 
 castle at Barnstaple, for the residence of |Augus- 
 tine Monks, by Sir James Gaudeleye. The con- 
 firmation is dated from Chudleigh 9. June, 1S48. 
 See also 2. Regist. Brantyngham, fo. 23. 
 
 The chantry of St. Thomas, on Barnstaple bridge, 
 is frequently mentioned in the registers. 
 
 In vol. 2. of Hist, of Abbeys, p. &6. Browne Willis 
 states the pensions paid to the incumbents of St. 
 Anne's Chantry, St. George's Chantry, Rowlins's 
 Chantry and the Free Chapel at Barnstaple. 
 
Itl 
 
 PILTON PRIORY. 
 
 i HIS religious establishment was a cell lo the 
 great Benedictine abbey of Malmsbury, in Wiltshire ; 
 but it should be remarked, that the Priors of Pilton 
 were perpetual ; i.e. when once appointed to the 
 office, they could not be removed without being con- 
 victed of a canonical fault. Leland asserts, that 
 King ^thelstan was the founder of the priory ; but 
 produces no proof. The property of the house was 
 small ; most of the lands in its neighbourhood being 
 in the possession of Barnstaple Priory. Pilton Priory 
 was dedicated to our Lady. 
 
 PRIORS OF PILTON, 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1. Ralph occurs Prior about the year 1200 
 i« a deed respecting the Lepers' House at Pil- 
 ton. — See 12. Archseolog. p. 211. 
 
 2. Adams, adraiitted Prior 4. May, 1261 
 
 3. Richard de Ralegh succeeded 25. August, 1282 
 
 4. John de Stanlegh, appointed 2. Dec. 1283 
 
 5. William Wrockeshale, who died in ' 1316 
 
 6. Henry de Peckyngehall, who resigned in 
 
 the spring of 1336 
 
 7. John de Rockynham succeeded 17. of the 
 following May. 
 
 8. John de Lakenhull, who died early in 1349 
 
 9. Simon de Aucneye, instituted 8. May, that 
 year, and was Prior about 4 months: ■ 
 
 10. John de Rodebourne,con&TVOBA 12. Oct. 1349 
 
 11. TAowas UroAenfiortop, admitted 25. Jan. 1362 
 
 12. John occurs Priof in the year 1397 
 
128 
 
 A. D. 
 
 13. William CA«r/etowsucceeded, the follow- 
 ing year, and held his office until his death, in 
 
 the winter of 1412 
 
 14. Richard Kengesveode succeeded on the 4. 
 
 of the following January, 1412-3 
 
 He died in December, 1421 
 
 15. Thomas Evesham, who died early in 1434 
 
 16. William Worcester, admitted 23. July, 
 that year. He died in January 1445-6 
 
 17. John Andover succeeded, but was elected 
 Abbot of Malmsbury the next year. 
 
 18. Robert Upton, admitted 8. April. 1467 
 He died in the summer of 1472 
 
 19. Thomas Oldeston succeeded him 26. Aug. 
 
 20- William Ryngswood, who died in 1502 
 
 21. John Bewmont, admijtted 18. October, and 
 died early in 1513 
 
 22. William Alday succeeded, and was Prior 
 for four years. 
 
 23. Simon Rumsey succeeded 22. August, 1517 
 and died late in 1527 
 
 24. John Ross, confirmed as his successor id". 
 Dec. that year, and I believe was the last Prior 
 of Pilton. For he and Richard Pilton and 
 John Cawe/subscribed to the King's supremacy, 
 3, Sept. 1534. 
 
 At the Dissolution, says Tatiner, the soite was pur- 
 chased by Sir John Chichester. Q. If the purchase was 
 not made by Thomas Chichester, esq. 44. Elizabeth ? 
 
 The revenues of Pilton amounted to £56. 12. 8. 
 
 In the Taxatio I read thus : 
 
 PRIOR DE PILTON PERCIPlT 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 In ecci& de Morteho 8 
 
 De ecci4 de Merwood 5 
 
 Habet Tytenhale de redd 16 
 
 Apud Lallegh tax ad 10 
 
 Apnd Midelcote 16 
 
 Apud Paracombe 10 
 
 AoudHelegh 1 10 8 
 
 There was a Lepers' House at Pilton. Bishop 
 Brantyngham 9. January, 1376, granted an in- 
 dulgence of forty days, to all who should contribute 
 
129 
 
 to the support of the said house, dedicated to St. Mar- 
 garet. The following curious document is copied 
 from Bronescombe's Register, fo. 18, I observe it 
 repeated fo 113. of Bishop Quivill's. 
 
 Kalendis Maii Anno Gratie 1261 hec compositid 
 facta est inter Walterum Episoopum, Decanum & 
 Capitulum Exon ex parte un&& Willelmum Abbatem, 
 Conventum ac Monasterium Malmeburiense, Salesbir 
 Dioc ex altera Videlicet ctlm inter Episcopum, Deca- 
 num & Capitulum Exon & Abbatem, Conventum & 
 Monasterium predictum super jure & possessione 
 Officii Visitationis jure Ordinario exercendi in celld 
 Beate Marie de Pilton, Exon Dioc, ad predictum 
 Monasterium Malmsb. pertinente, necnon & modo 
 instituendi & destituendi Priores seu administratores 
 in Cell4 memoratd, suborta esset materia questicmis, 
 tandem inter partes ipsas de licium fluctubus ad pacis 
 quietem transire volentes, questio predicta in* huiic 
 modum realiter conquievit, Videflicet, qu5d predictus 
 Eplscopus & Successores sui poterunt ipsam nomine 
 suo & Ecclesie Exon Cellam predictam de Pilton 
 jure Ordinario sine reclamatione de cetero yisitare & 
 que correctione indigebunt in rebus & personis 
 Canonice instaurabunt, hoc adhibito moderamine 
 ad gravamen samptnum Monasterii & Celle predict 
 vitandum in h&c parte, quod ejusdem loci Priores 
 dicto Episcopo & ejus Successoribus nomine cujus- 
 libet procurationis ratione Visitationis, debite seu 
 debendeXXsolidos sterlingorum duntaxat impendant. 
 Prefati itaque Abbas & Conventus Malms. & eorum 
 successores dictam Cellam Pilton per mortem, ces- 
 sionem, resignationem seu alio modo legitime vacan- 
 tem, idoneas successive personas, Priores seu admi- 
 nistratores instituendos ibidem, dlcto Dno Episcopo 
 & ejus Successoribus de cetero presentabunt, qui 
 caramj, administrationem seu regimen ab eodem Epis- 
 copo & ejus Successoribus recipient, & nisi eis 
 aliquid canonicum obsistat, sine difScultate admittent. 
 £t ut hoc perpetud inviolabiliter observetur inter 
 partes, Episcopus, Decaous, Capitnlliin, Abbas & 
 Conventus predicti tenore presencium hujusmodi 
 modo se obligantin perpetnum. Et present! scripto 
 sigilla sua ad perpetuam rei memoriam alternatim 
 apposuerunt. 
 
350 
 
 SLAPTON. 
 
 J. HE manor of Slapton was held of the Bishop,s of 
 Exeter by the Earls of Devon, on condition of acting 
 as stewards at the installation feast of every new 
 bishop. The composition to this effect, between 
 Bishop Stapeldon and Hugh de Courtenay, Earl of 
 Devon, is dated from Newton Plyippton, Dominic& 
 in crastino Beati Thome ^postoli A. D. 1308.— 
 Vid. 1. Regist. Brantyngham, fo.36. ad oalcem : and 
 Blount's Ancient Tenures, p. 34. 
 
 A collegiate church, with a perpetual chantry of 
 five Priests and a Rector and four Clerks, was founded 
 at Slapton, in honor of our Lady, by Sir Guy de 
 Briant or Brene, about the year 1370. In 1. Regist. 
 Brantyngham, fo. 64. is preserved the followinff 
 document : 
 
 Noverint univej-si me Guydpnem de Brene Militem, 
 Seniorem, Domui de Slapton concessisse, assignasse 
 & presenti scripto meo confirmasse Dno Willelino 
 Batokeweye, Capellanc & quinque sociis suis Presby- 
 teris & quatuor Clericis in Capellsl Beate Maiie infrd 
 Manerium de Slapton consisteute, in Divinis Dno 
 servientibus, pro dote Cantarie in prefatii Capell& 
 ordinandi ac sustentacione dictorum Presbyterorum 
 & Clerioorum unum annualem redditum L marcarum 
 annuatim perclpiendum de dicto Manerio meo de 
 Slapton, Habendum & percipiendum predicto Willo 
 et dictis sociis suis et clericis fihtedictis ac ecrum 
 Successoribus inippetunm, juxtai vim formam et ef- 
 fectum literarum Apostoiicarum Reverendo in Xto 
 Patri Exon Epo, ad fundandum ibi dictam Cantariam 
 
131 
 
 & ad uniendum, iacoi-poraiiduin sive appropriandum 
 eccleiiam Parochialem de Slaplon Exon Dioc, dictis 
 CantariePresbyteris&Clericis in Hac parte direotarum. 
 In cujus rei testimonium, presentibus sigillum menm 
 apposui hiis testibus disoretis viris, Magristris ThomA 
 de Walkyngton Deoretorum, Johanno de Schillyng- 
 ford, Legum Doctoribus, & Hugone Hiclyng, Baclia- 
 lar in Legibus & plaribus aliis. Datum apud Chud- 
 delegh die Jovis in festo Sci Matthei Apostoli & Evau- 
 geliste, anno Regni Regis Edw^rdi III. post Conques- 
 tutii, XLVIII. 
 
 From fo. 74. of the same vol. it appears, that the 
 founder appropriated to the college the parish church 
 of Poundestock in Cornwall. 
 
 I further observe, in 2. Regist. Stafford, fo. 289. 
 that Lodeswell church was appropriated to this col- 
 lege in the year 1413. 
 
 The Socii of the Rector * were always priests: one 
 of them had the charge of the parishioners of Slap- 
 ton, and was called Minister. 
 
 RECTORS. .A. D 
 
 1. William de Batokewei/e. 
 
 2. John Brya«, instituted 24. July^ 1371 
 
 3. Richard Bakewetl succeeded 7. August, 1373 
 
 4. TVdlter Trole, admitted 26. Nov. 1375 
 6. William Trey followed, 13. Aug. 1381 
 
 6. Robert HankesvBorih, apTpointed 11. Nov. 1386 
 
 7. AFaWer Dawye/, confirmed 8. May, 1400 
 
 8. John Robryng, instituted 3. June, 1410 
 
 9. Benedict Brente succeeded in 1426 
 He died 3. Feb. 1458-9 
 
 10. John Pawle, instituted 24. of the follow- 
 ing March, on the presentation of James 
 Osmond, Fiarl of Wiltshire, and Lord of Slapton 
 Manor. 
 
 11. Vincent Coke, who died Rector 21. Sept. 1498 
 
 12. Nicholas Morion succeeded, on the pre-, 
 sentation of Henry Earl of Northumberland. 
 
 • EctQD, in his Tbesaurus, calls tha Superior of the college, Prior, instead 
 of, Rertor, 
 
132 
 
 He was alive in 1521 
 
 Browne Willis, vol. 2. p. 66. of his History of 
 
 Abbies, informs us, that in J 534, the acknowlege- 
 
 ment of the King's supremacy was given with the 
 
 -seal of the Rector and Fellows, bat without names. 
 
 The chantry of Slaptou was granted to John Peter, 
 .€. Edw. VI. 
 
135: 
 
 llACCOMBE ARCHPRESBYTERY. 
 
 XT is singular, that the public notary has omitted to<' 
 affix the date to the foundation deed of the Arch- 
 presbytery of Haccombe, as given in 2. Regist. Gran- 
 disson, fo. 14. But by comparing this record with 
 the institution of the first Arciipriesf, Andrew de Tre- 
 gors, in ft>j 46. of the 3d vol. of the same BitihopV 
 Register, I am clearly of opinion that it must liave 
 been drawn up either very late in the year 1341, or in- 
 the early part of 1342. 
 
 This foundation deed states, that Sir Stephen de 
 Haccombe had formerly applied to Bishop Grandis- 
 sbn, to erect the parish chuj«h of St. Blase, at Hac- 
 combe,* the burial place of his ancestors, into an- 
 Archpresbytery — that before the Prelate could have- 
 complied with his wishes, the worthy Knight was 
 taken off by death — that his heir Sir John Lerce- 
 dekne had fully entered into the views and wishes of. 
 the deceased, by renewing the application to the- 
 Bishop— ^that the Bishop most readily accedes to his 
 request ; and consents to the appropriation of the 
 parish church of St. Hugh de Quedyock,.in Cornwall.- 
 f or the bettepsupport of the Archpriest and his com- 
 munity.- It should be clearly understood, that this 
 Archpriest- enjoyed no episcopal powers whatsoever 
 — that he was subject,^ not merely to the visitation 
 and jurisdiction of the Bishop of the diocese of." 
 Exeter, but moreover, to that of the Archdeacon of 
 
 • Oa the 14. Ka!. of August, (July 19.) 1328, Bisliop Grandisson 
 dedicated this parish nhurch of Haccomlie, with its two altars and the - 
 Cemitery. Sir Henry Cnrew, Bart, the priisent proprietor, is now engaged \ 
 in the embellishing of this church, wiiji a iniignificent {(othio altar, chiincel-- 
 screeu, stone p.ulpit, and otlier decorations, designed by Mr. John ICandall^of .' 
 Exeter, 
 
134 
 
 Totnes— and that the only difference between him 
 and a simple parish Priest consisted in this, — that he 
 was also the President and Supertour of a community 
 of clergymen, who were called his Socii, or com- 
 panions. These clergymen were five in number, and 
 were bound to sing the canonical oflSce, and to cele- 
 brate perpetual obits — they dwelled under the same 
 roof with the Archpriest, and lived in common. 
 The Archpriest was obliged to pay six marks per 
 annum to the treasury of the Cathedral church of 
 Exeter. 
 
 We miy here remark that the Rural Deans were 
 styled Archpriests in some countwes. Decani Ru- 
 rales in aliquibus regionlbns Archipresbyteri nomi- 
 nantur. See the Constitutions of Pope Benedict XII. 
 A. D. 1335. in 2. Spelman's Councils, fo. 606. 
 
 E 2. Regist. Grandisson, fo. 14. 
 
 Universis &p. Johannes &c. salutem in sinceris 
 amplexibus Salvatoris. Ciim multa nobis sint de 
 studio devocionis olim dilecti filii Domini Stephani 
 de Haccomb, militis, ad Deum & Divini cultAs aug- 
 mentum in I'arochiMli EcclesiA de Haccomb, nre 
 Diocesis, in quA ipse, dum viveret, jus obtinuit patro- 
 nat^is & in quA corpora ejus & suorum Progenitorum 
 traduntur ecclesiastice Sepulture, placidi insinua- 
 tione suggesta, ita cordi nostro est ejus intentio 
 devota, ut ea que rationabiliter erant sibi concedenda 
 vivo, eoiam eoncedamus defuncto & e6 libenuiiis, 
 qd dilectus filius Dominus Johes Lereedekne, Miles, 
 qui sicnteidem Dno Stephano in Temporalibns Heres 
 substitnitur, ita devooionem ipsius, cujus velut Fidei 
 oommissarius fidelis curarn suscepit, imitatus, expla- 
 nando sepe nobis suum et dicti Domini Stephani cil-ca 
 premissa ampleotendi desiderium & petendo sepids in 
 declarationem devocionis dicti Stephani & sue Fidei, 
 ad Divini cultds augmentum in dictA EcclesiA per- 
 petnnm ArchipresbyteratAs Oificium & infrascriptum 
 Presbyterorum numerura, premissA solempnitate de- 
 bitA, statuere sub modis & pofcionibus subdis'tinctis. 
 Considerantes igitur, «jd ilia beuignu sunt concedenda 
 farore. per que Divinns cultus augeri valeat & pia 
 defunclorum vota salubriter adimpleri, dilectos filios 
 
IS5 
 
 Decamim & Capitulum Ecclesie nre Exon, ad Irac- 
 tandum un^ nobiscum super premissis eoriim causm, 
 ad certos diem & locum peremptorie fecimus evocari, 
 habitoque cum eis super hiis traetatu diligenti & so- 
 1-mpni die dict&, de predictortim Decani & Capituii 
 ac prefati Militis & omnium aliorum quorum interest, 
 collaudacione & consensu, concurrentibusqoe oirini- 
 bus & singulis que requiruntur de jure super petitis 
 hnjnsmodi & circa ea in hiis scriptis, ordiaamus, 
 providemus & statuimus sub h&c forma, ut videlicet 
 diiecto filio nunc Rectore dicte Ecclesie de Hac- 
 combe eedente vel deeedente, persona idonea scienti^ 
 & moribus, ac in Sacerdotio constituta^ que noa 
 solum Clericorum ponendorum in e& dr amovendi 
 eosdem, cum expedire videbitur, verum efiam Presf- 
 byterorum predietorum & Parochianorum quorum- 
 cumque ejusdem Ecclesie sollicitudinem & curam 
 gerat debitam animarum, quiqucper verum Patronum 
 dicte Ecclesie infra tempus indultum a, jure, velut 
 Arehrpresbyter & subArchipresbyteii vocabnlo nobis 
 & successoribus oris Exon Episcopis, instituendus 
 preseiitetur & instituatuir Archipresbyter in eadem 
 qui eciam mox in Institutione ^uA prestet juxta for- 
 inam Constitutionis bone memorie Dominorum Otonis 
 '& Ottoboni, olim Sedis Apostoiice Legatorum in 
 Anglia de Vicariis edite,' faciende ibidem residencie 
 corporalis & continue, except^ defensione necessaiiA 
 seu saltem ulilitate eommuni dicte Ecclesie, juramen- 
 tum. Alioquin dicti Archipresbyteri Institiitio uullius 
 penit£is sit momeoti. — Item quod idem Arcliipresbyter 
 Quinque- Presbyteros suos Socios idoneos, nobis & 
 Successoribus nris per eundem Patronum, pos(quam 
 dictus Archipresbyter corporalem possessionem 
 dicte Ecclesie de Haccomb & possessionem corpo- 
 ralem Ecclesie Sci Hugonis de Quedyock infrascripte 
 cum majoribus fructubus ad eas (preter portionem 
 Vicarie in e4dem EcclesiA Sci_ Hugonis per nos vel 
 Successores nostros taxande & ordinande) spectaa- 
 tibus, auctoritite presentis Ordinationisfueiitadeplus 
 ac postmodum eis vel eorum subrogatis sive simal 
 sive s?paratim eedentibus vel decedentibns, infra 
 mensem ibidem continuum nominando nostrarum. 
 &ut Successorum nostrorum hujusmodi auctorilaie 
 
1 86 
 
 Fiterarnm, eciam omiss^ solempnitate tnquisitionis * 
 inilu'jtioBis in ^liis servari solitd, recipiat & secuin 
 habeat, quos cessaate aaus4 rationabili nolumus si 
 quoquam amoved ; per quos autetn omnes Divinum 
 Officium in predicta EcclesiA dfeHaccemb devote & 
 solempniier celebretnr, ut videlicet preter Horas 
 CaBoriiGas quas dicent cum not& quolibet die, Missam 
 convenientem dici & aliam de Beati Vifgine Dei 
 Genitrice cum DotA, necnon terciam de Mortuis cum 
 pleno officio Mortaorum brdirie servari solito, ces- 
 saate impedimento legitimo cotidie sine not& preter- 
 quam in Anniversariis, psaiiere & dieere teneantur. 
 In quibus- Missis & aliis Oracionum suffrag'iis, pro 
 salubri statu nostro & Nobilis viri Dni Hugonis de 
 Courtenay comitis Devon dictique TDni Jobannis 
 Lereedekne & Domiiie Cecilie, uxoris sue suorumque 
 liberorum necnon Margarete quondam uxOris Domini 
 Stephani de Haccombe, mjlitis, et Dni Robert! de 
 Pyl, clerici, dum vixerimus et vixerrnt ac pro anlma- 
 bus ipsorum & nostra cum ab h^c luce migra,verimQS 
 & migraverint. Et specialiter pro animabus Dni 
 Stephani predieti Fundatoris, & Dni Thome Ler- 
 eedekne Militis, Patris Dni Dni Johannis, ac Dbmine 
 Matilde matris ejusdem, necnon Jordani de Haccomb 
 & Isabelle uxoris sue omniumque Fidelium in Christo 
 qiiiescentium orare specialiter teneantur, Proviso 
 qudd unus de Presbyteris hujusmodi cotidie pro 
 statu nostro ac predictorum omninm & animabus 
 nostiis ac predictorum nominatim expres$orum &. 
 omnium fidelium d^functorum «elebrare cotidie 
 teneatur, quodque vicissim Hebdomadarios se coQ- 
 stituant, dictique Presbyteri prefatum Archipiesby- 
 terum, cum oporteat, juvent in cure execution<} ani- 
 marum, ejusdem judicio & ordiuationi' in hiis que de. 
 centiesunt& honestatis se subiicientcum omni revfe- 
 renti4 & timore. Statuimus insuper & ordinamus 
 quod idem Archipresbyter ratione sui reglminis ani- 
 marnm & supportacionis sui aliorumque oherum 
 ejusdem Ecclesie, ad instar aliorum Beneficiatornm 
 Dostre Diocesis & curam animarum .babentium, dis- 
 ponendi de bonis ejusdem Ecclesie plenam &liberam 
 habeat facultatem, Proviso.tamen qu6d tarn ipse quani 
 alii Presbyteri predieti, quos per eum volumus sibi 
 Soeios appellari, sub eodem (ecto simul se reficiant 
 
137 
 
 <et eohabitent in communi. Qu6dque volumus idem 
 Archipresbyter de bonis ad dictam Ecclesiam spec- 
 iantibus, singulis predictis Presbyteris pro stipendiis 
 & vestibus, preter & ultrA victualia statwi eorum 
 competenoia, que ipse administrabit eisdem II marcas 
 sterlingorum ad festa Sci Michaelis & Pasche per 
 eqaales porciones singulis Tannis solvere teneatur. 
 BH sibi caveat tain idem Afchipresbyter qu^m Pres- 
 byteri qu6d sic in Tefectioine & oohabitatione, ita 
 pares sint, si comode poterint, in vestis colore & 
 bonestate & ut eorum unieuique provideri valeat 
 primitils de deccntid, non queratur qu6d preciosum 
 est vel subtile, sed qu6d utile valeat inveniri. Sint 
 eciam vestes super tunicam clause, precincte & non 
 scisse, utanturque mnguli in e"x«CHtione Divini officii 
 superpellieeis & nigris Almiciis omnibus diebus velut 
 Vicarii in nostrA Ecclesi& Cathedrall : habeaut eciam 
 duos clericali caractere insignltos in arte legendi & 
 cantandisufficienter instructos X solid ossterlingorum 
 pro vestibus & suis necessariis ultr^ victualia annua 
 juxtagradum&condieionem eorum ^-dicto Archipres- 
 bytero percepfuros, qui cum eis cantent, & Divinum 
 Ministerium in suis ordinibus exequantur & aliis in 
 eorum domesticis negdciis sint, juxta jussum dicti 
 Archipresbyteri & mandatum. si A qnando cxpediet, 
 occupati- Si vta-o contigit diotornm Presbyterorum 
 aliquem coram suo competente jndice in peocato 
 carnis legitime eonvictum, ita quod sit quodamod^ 
 Incorrigibilis, vel extra dictam Ecclesiam celebrare, 
 nisi causa rationabiiis suberit at predicto Archipres- 
 bytero approbata, A p-redictA Societate amoveatur 
 protinils summarie & de piano ; ac sine judiciorum 
 strepitu & fugaci^, & alius loco amoti idoneuis modo 
 premisso subrogetur. Quia vero dicta Ecclesia de 
 Haocomb ad complendum faujusmodi salubre propo- 
 situm non sufficit, Parocfaiaiem ecclesiam Sci Hugonis 
 de Quedyk dicte uostre Diooesis in qu& dictus vide- 
 iicet Dnus Stephanns, dum viveret optinuit Joban- 
 lUesque suns heres jus ad presens obtinet Patronatus, 
 de collaudatione & consensu unaniml Decani & 
 Capituli uostri, predictorum ne^non omnium & s!n> 
 gulorum aliorum q^uorum interest, predictique multi 
 instadcld Militis & Heredi& cum omnibus juribus & 
 
 L 
 
138 
 
 Sertinentiis suis dicte Ecclesi^ de Haccomb & officio 
 Tchipresbyteratfts predicti & Presbyteris in dicta 
 EcclesiEl Domino, ut premittitur, servituris, in sub- 
 portacionem dictoyuin onerutn Pontificali auctoritate 
 concedimus, appropriamus & unimus, juribus & dig- 
 nitate nostre Exon Ecclesie & Archidiaconorum loco- 
 rum in omnibus semper salvia. Ita quod auctoritate 
 appropriationis & unionis hujusmodi, cedente vel 
 decedente dilec^o filio ad presens ejusdem Ecclesie 
 Rectore, fact^ue inde nobis & suceessoribus nostris 
 fide, prefatus Arohipresbyter suo dicteque ecclesie 
 de Haccomb ac Presbyterorum predictorum nomine 
 per se vel alium seu alios ejusdem ecclesie Sci Hu- 
 gonis possessionem liber^ apprehendere & tenere 
 fructusque ejusdem in usus predictos committere 
 valeat, nostrA (nee alterius cujuscumque) licencia 
 unic6 requisite, reservatS. tamen de ejusdem Ecclesie 
 fructubus & proventibus Perpetuo Vicario canonicfe 
 instituendo in ek, assignandSk per nos porcione congru^, 
 ex qnk idem Vicarlus comode sustentari posslt et 
 Episcopalia Jura solvere aliaque sibi incumbencia 
 onera supportare, quam CoUationi nostre Ordinarie 
 & Successorum nostrorum de consensu dicti Militis 
 specialiter reservamus. Kurs£is premissis admlttimus 
 pro nobis & Suooessoribus nostris Exon Episcopis, 
 qd in vacationibus singulis predicti Archiprasbyter- 
 at6s, illi perceptione proventuum ratione Custodie 
 durante vacatione hujusmodi contentaii volumus & 
 debemus, quam idem Arohipresbyter, si viveret, esset 
 pro porcione su&^ discrete. & liber4 percepturus. Ut 
 autem contra dispendium qd pararl posset forsitan 
 eidem Ecclesie pro premiss^ deliberacione debite 
 oonsulatur, Statuimus & ordinainus, qd dictus Arohi- 
 presbyter in signum recordacionis beneficii hujus, 
 annis singulis mox postquam & earum Ecclesiarum 
 de Haccomb & Sci Hugonis de Quedyk possessionem, 
 auctoritate preseqtis ordinacionis apprehenderit V 
 marcas sterlingorum in subsidium Fabrice prefate 
 Ecclesie nostre committendas in Scaccario dicte 
 Ecclesie nostre in festis predictis equis porcionibus & 
 I marcam pro obitu dicte Matilde Lercedekne, ma- 
 trisDnlDni Johis Lercedekne & ejusdem Johannis 
 cum ab hac luce migraverit, secuadi die post festum 
 
139 
 
 ■Sci Bartholomei Apostoll in e^dem Ecclesi^ Exon 
 tenendo inter Canonicos & alios ininistros dicte Ec- 
 ■olesie tune presentes, per Clerioum Scaccarii dividen- 
 4am dicto die in Scaecario predioto, solvere per 
 juramenti vinculum teneatur. Reservatk nobis & suc- 
 'cessoribus oostris, premissis addendi & ea mutandi, 
 oorrigendi & interpretandi ac muniendi potestate. 
 In eujus rei &e. &c. 
 
 In coDcludiDg this article, we may observe that 
 this foundation deed is modelled on that by which 
 Bishop Stapeldon ereetedthe parish church of Whit- 
 ohurch into an Archpresbytery, but twenty years 
 before.^— See fo. 165, of his register. 
 
 Haecombe became the property of the Carew 
 family, through Joanna, wife of Sir Nicholas Carew, 
 Knight, (the lineal ancestor of the present. Sir Henry 
 Garew, Bart.) temp. Hen. VI. and daughter of Sir Hugh 
 de Courtenay, Knight, yoi^nger brother of Edward 
 Courtenay, Earl of Devon, by Philippa, Sir Hugh's 
 second wife, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Guarinus 
 Le Ercedekne, (or, Archidiaconus) Knight, "son of 
 John Le Ercedekne, by Cecilia his wife, daughter and 
 heiress of Jurdan d© Haecombe, son of Sir Stephen 
 4e Haecombe, Knight, which John was son and heir 
 of Thomas, son of Sir ©do Ltc Ercedekne.* 
 
 •Arms .of the Hacoombes, Argent, 3 Berid?, Sable ; of the Ercedeknes, 
 j\Tgeiit, 3 Chevrons, Sable. 
 
140 
 
 St. GABRIEL'S CHAPEL, 
 
 j4T CLYST. 
 
 JBlSHOP BRONESCOMBE was the original fourt- 
 der of this establishment, as appears from thefollowing 
 deed. 
 
 Universis presenfes literas inspecturis Walterus mi- 
 seracione Divinft Exon Epus salutem in Dno sempi- 
 ternam. Ed fiducialitis possessiones transitorias ad- 
 quirimus, qu6 ampliCis Divinum cultum ex earum 
 fructubus augmentare proposuimus. Proinde vacan- 
 tem Parochiaiem Ecclesiam de Ffarendon cum fruc- 
 tubus ejusdem ad collationem nostram spectantem, 
 cujus advocationem canonice adquisivimus, ad sus- 
 tentationem duorum capellanorum per nos & suc- 
 cessores uostros cauuniv^ aubstituendorum in CapellSl 
 Sei Gabrielis, quam infra Septa Curie uoEtre de Clyst 
 fnndavimus ad honorem B. Virginis, dicti Archangeli 
 & omnium Angelorum, necnon & pro salute aie nre, 
 Antecessorum «fe Successorum ae Benefactorum nos- 
 trorum, Divina perpetu6 celiebrandorum, accedente 
 ad hec dilectorum filiorum Decani & Capituli nre 
 Exon consensu legitime, attestatione presentis instru- 
 menti, intuitu caritatis, appropriamus, concedimus 
 & canonic^ appropriatione annectimus perpetu6 pos- 
 sidendam, salvft competent! vicarii per nos c& Suc- 
 cessores nros ydoneis personis cum vacaverit impos- 
 terum conferenda. In cujus rei testimonium present! 
 scripture sigillum nostrum appoui fecimus. Dat. apud 
 Clyst in festo SS. Cosme & Damiani Anno Gre 1276, 
 & Consecraois nre 19.* 
 
 * This deed is bound up wilb some loose HISS, in the beginning of Bro- 
 oescombe's Register, and may also be seen in fo.^74, of the swae Register, 
 
141 
 
 To this foundation the venerable Bishop Stapeldon 
 was a generous benefactor ; for he annexed to it a 
 peaceful and commodious asylum for 12 blind, infirm, 
 or superannuated clergymen, where every attention 
 was rendered to their corporal and spiritual necessi- 
 ties. The funds for this charity he supplied princi- 
 pally from the property of his friend and predecessor 
 Bishop Bytton,* of whom he appears to have been 
 residuary legatee. A moiety of the property pos- 
 sessed by the clergymen of this establishment at the 
 tipie of their decease, was reserved for the improve- 
 ment and better condition of the charity. To assist 
 the community, I find that the Dean and Chapter of 
 Exeter^ngaged themselves, in 1376, to contribute the 
 annual sum of forty-three marks, from the appro- 
 priated churches of Westleigh and St. Melan. 
 
 A Canon of Exeter Cathedral was generally charged 
 with the administration and superintendance of this 
 benevolent institution. 
 
 For further particulars consult Stapeldon's Regist. 
 fo. 163 — 2. Grandisson's, fo. 4: — Appendicis, fo. 50 — 
 2. Brantyngham. 
 
 • Bisbop Byttoa died 21. September I SOT. 
 
L43 
 
 fPELPEN. 
 
 In Domesday we read' that " Radulfus Fe%beres 
 tenet de Rege Iplepen." The Felgheres family, at 
 an early period, conferred their right of presenlatioQ' 
 to Ipilpen Church on the abbey of St. Peter of Ful- 
 gers, in Britanuy. The Rector of the church, from 
 holding his sitnation immediately from this abbey,, 
 was called a Prior — perhaps two Religious may have 
 lived with him, as was sometimes the case of cells to- 
 alien monasteries. 
 
 In Bronescombe's Roister, fo. 56. 1 find, that on 
 14. Sept. 1274, was admitted " Frater Lucas ad Prio- 
 ratum de IpHpen vacantem per spontaneam resig- 
 nationem Fratris Thome quondam Prions ad pre- 
 sentationem Abbatis et GonventAs Sci Petri de 
 Ffilger." 
 
 Galfridus occurs as Prior and Rector- of the church 
 in 1315 and 1334. 
 
 In 1350 the church was valued at £6. per annum. 
 King Edward III. presented the rector tfiat year 
 " ratione temporalium Abbathie de Ffeulgersin manA 
 sui oeeasione guerre inter ipsum et illos de Ffranci& 
 mote existentium." I believe the Crown continued 
 to hold the benefice, until Bishop Lacy procured its^ 
 appropriation to St. Mary's College, at Otery, in the 
 year 1438. 
 
143 
 
 OTTERTON PRIORY. 
 
 Ti 
 
 HE manors of Oterton, Otrinton, or Otterington, 
 and of Yarticombe, were granted by William the 
 Conqueror to the great and venerable Benedictine 
 abbey of St. Michael de Periculo Maris. From the 
 Monasticon.it appears, that King John founded the 
 priory here for four Monks, and that he granted them 
 the manors of Sidmouth and Budleigh ; in consi- 
 deration of which they were obliged to distribute to 
 the poor, every week, the value of sixteen shillings in 
 bread,^ for ever. 
 
 A Custumale, containing an account of the customs 
 and rents of this priory, was digested by Gaufrid, a 
 Monk of St. Michael's Monastery, A. D. 1260. It is 
 probably the same work which Bp. Tanner entitles 
 " CoHectiones, &c. in the possession of John Anstis, 
 Esq.Gartelr King of ArnAs," and is now the property 
 of the Rev. Duke,Yonge, of Cornwood, in this county. 
 
 From this MS. and from the registers of the See 
 of Exeter, I flatter myself that I have i-ecovei:ed an 
 accurate list of all the Priors of Otterton. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1. McAoZas occurs as Prior in the year 1212 
 
 2. Henry occurs in several deeds copied in 
 the Custumale of Otterton. 
 
 3. W^illam de Kernit, who was donfirmed as 
 Abbot of Tavistock in 1220 
 
 4. William Turheville occurs as Prior in 1227 
 
 5. Ralph Underwin. 
 
 .6. John occcirs as Prior in 1257 
 
 T. Gaufrid, the compiler of the Custumale, 
 occurs in a deed dated eaily in 1260 
 
144 
 
 A. ». 
 
 8; mUicim de PrateUis, Admitted 21. Dee^ 1266:, 
 
 Q. Richard Jordan, confirmed 10. April, '^ 1"276= 
 
 10. Bobert iowe/, instituted 27. April, 1310 
 He resigned in August,. 1316 
 
 11. Robert de Albo sueceedted in the follow- 
 ing September, and- resigned in lesa^than three 
 years. 
 
 12. OrgreoMS Bieey*, admitted in July 1319 
 and was Prior thirty-three years. 
 
 13. TAoffias «edite succeeded him 30. May, 1352: 
 The following Bull of Pope Innocent VI. to this 
 
 Prior,* may be acceptable to our readers : — 
 
 " Innocetvtics epsservus servorumdei Dilecfo' 
 filio-. Thome Sedile Priori PrioratAs de Otriton 
 ordinis SanCti Benedieti Exonien dioc, saluteno 
 & apostolicam benedictionem. Relrgionis zelus 
 vite ac morum hcnestas aliaque probitatis et 
 virtutum merita super quibus apud nos fidedigno 
 commendaris testimonio nos indueunt ut te 
 specials favovis gratis prosequamur. Exhibita 
 siquidem nobis pro parte tua petitio continebat, 
 qu6d olim Prloratu de Otriton ordinis sancti Be- 
 nedieti Exonien Dioc quem quondam Ogerius 
 ultimus ipsius PrioratAs Prior dum viveret obti^ 
 nebat per ipsius Qgerii obitum q4]i extra Ro- 
 manam Curiam diem cfausit extremum vacanle, 
 dilecti filii Abbas et Conventus Monasterii sancti 
 Michaelis in Periculo maris dicti ordinis Abrin- 
 censis Dioc veri patroni ejusdem PrioratAs et in 
 possessione pacified seu quasi juris presentandr 
 Prioreoi ad eundem Prioratum existentes, te ad 
 dictum Prioratum sic vacantem et ab eodem- 
 Mooasterio dependcntem, et per Monaehose jus- 
 dem Monasterii cujus Monaehus expresse pro- 
 fessus existis solitum gubernari, Venerabili. fra- 
 tri nostro Johanni Epo Exonien infra tempu» 
 legitimnm presenlarunt, idemque Eps te in 
 Priorem institurt dicti PrioratAs canonice nisi 
 aplice reservationes obstarent, tuque vigore 
 presentationis et institutionis hujusmodi dictum 
 Prioratum pacific^ assecutus ilium did tenuisti 
 
 • Ex Orig. penes D. Joannem Jones, de Franltlyn. 
 
146 
 
 A. ©V 
 
 et possedisti prout tenes.et possides pacifice et 
 quiets. CAm antem sicut eadem petitio sub- 
 jungebat, tu dubites dictum Prioratum tempore 
 presentationis seu institutionis hujusrnodi fore 
 dispositione sedis apllce reservatum, teque prop- 
 terea posse super eo imposterum molestari. Nos 
 igitur volentes te in presbyteratAs ordine consti- 
 tatum premissorutn meritorum tuorum intuitu 
 favore prosequi gratioso, tuis in h&c parte sup- 
 pticaeionibus inclinati, volumus, et aplic4 tibi 
 auctoritate coucedimus, qd presentacio et insti- 
 tucio predicte, et queeumq ; inde secuta perihde' 
 & dato presentfum valeant et plenam obtineant 
 roboris fi'rmitatem, ac si dictus Prioratus tem- 
 pore presentationis vel institutionis hujusrnodi 
 dispositioni sedis predicte reservatus minimi 
 extitisset. Nulli ergo omninb hominum, liceat 
 hanc pagrnam nostre concessionis et voluntatis 
 infrrngere, vel er ausu teraerario contraire. 
 Siquis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit, tn- 
 dignationem omnipotentis dei, et beatorum Petri 
 et Pauli Aplorum ejus se noverit incursurum. 
 Datum Avinion II. Kal. Februarii Pontificates 
 nostri Anno Quinto." 
 
 14. Thomas Paga, admitted Iff. August, 1393 
 
 15. Robert Magne, instituted 30. Sept. 1403 
 and, I believe, was the last Prior. 
 
 This was one of the priories suppressed in 1414. 
 Very soon after, ft was annexed, with all its depend- 
 encies, to Sion House, the noble foundation of Henry 
 V. On the suppression of that royal monastery, 
 Otterton manor, then valued at £87. 10. 4. per 
 annum, was granted 31. Hen. VIII. to Richard Duke, 
 one of the clerks of the Augmentation Court*, and, at 
 the time of the grant, a clerk of the council, in whose 
 posterity it continued' till 24. Sept 1785, when it was 
 purchased by Denys RoUe, Esq. the father of Lord 
 Rolle, the present owner. 
 
 In the Taxatio of Edward 1. 1 rgad as follows : — 
 
 ERIOR 1>E OTRINTA HABET. <■ 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Manerium d'e Otrintona 15 2 8 
 
 Manerium de Sydemuie 10 6 8 
 
146 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Apud Budleigh de redd molendiDi 5 13 4 
 
 Manerium de Hertecombe 10 16 
 
 Apud Herderlond de redd 2 10 
 
 Apud Ffursham de redd 110 
 
 In Civitate Exon de redd 14 
 
 Summa £46 3 4 
 
 Decima £4 13 4 
 
 Bishop Grandisson informs us, in his register, that 
 the priory, in 1334, held, in proprios usus, the parish 
 churches of Otterton, Harpford, Sidmouth and Yar- 
 tieombe, at that tinae valued at £35. per annum. 
 
 Forty-one years after, Bishop Brantyngham re- 
 ported to King Edward III. that Sidmouth church 
 was valued at the annual sum of £20, 
 
 Otterton Church at £20. 
 
 Harpford at £5. 
 
 Yarticombe at £20. 
 
 And that Clyston Church paid yearly to Otterton 
 Priory the sum of 5s. 
 
 Since writing the above, I have found that Henry 
 Marshall, Bishop of Exeter, appropriated the above- 
 mentioned churches of Otterton, (with its chapel of 
 Lahedreland, cum capella su& de Lahedreland,^ 
 Sidmouth, Yarticombe & Harpford, to St. Michael's 
 Abbey. The deed of appropriation is dated from 
 Crediton, 31. August, 12th year of his Pontificate, 
 See the Appendix (p). 
 
 I have seen a grant of King Henry VIII. by which 
 he discharges Sion House and its dependencies for 
 ever of all tenths, fifteenths, and all other quotas and 
 subsidies ; also of all manner of tolls and customs.- 
 
 Agnes, Abbess of Sion House demised Sidmouth 
 manor and rectory to Richard Coswell, gent, for 
 the term of 99 years, under the yearly rent of 
 £51. 17. 7. The lease, dated 6. Feb. 30, Hen. VIII. 
 was allowed by the Augmentation Court. 
 
 The monastery^f St. Michael (to which Otterton 
 Priory was suboirdinate) was built on a rock four 
 hundred feet high, overhanging the sea, between 
 Normandy and Britanny, in the year 708, by Aubert, 
 
147 
 
 Bisbop of Avranclies. Formerly mostof the churches: 
 that .were built on mountains or eminences, were 
 dedicated to St. Michael ; perhaps^, because it is as- 
 serted, in the most ancient Legends, that he had fre- 
 quently appeared IB! such pliaces^-" in. vertice Gargani.' 
 montis," and others;. 
 
 On this great abbey, the priory of St. Michael's 
 Mount, in Cornwall, was also dependent. A reli- 
 gious community existed there in the time of Edward 
 the Confessor ; and Leofric, B!shop of E xeter, ex- 
 empted it from' all episcopal jurisdiction. Borlase's- 
 account of this priory is very inaccurate-. 
 
 In 2. Regist. Brantyngham, fo. 7. (ad calcem) 
 is the followiiig account of this priory : — •' Frater- 
 Johes Volant de monte Sti Miehis optinet ecclesiam 
 Sti Hilarii valoris pr. ann V marcarum et dimid. 
 & Idem optinet ecclesia de Moresk val. pr an XX 
 marc & 6s. 6d. — Idem optinet capellam Sti Miehis^ 
 in raonte val pr. anXXIV ma.rc Ss. &. 9d. — Dictus > 
 Prior cum 2 monachis residt in dicto Priorafu." 
 
 I havemet with the following Priorsof St. Miehaer* 
 Mount, in Cornwall: — 
 
 A. B^ 
 
 1. Radnf^hus de Car/are/, admitted 21. Dec. 1260 
 
 2. Richard Perer succeeded 11. April, 1275 
 
 3. Gaufridde Gernon, admitted &. Julv, 1283 
 
 4. Peter de Card Filld succeeded 12. Sept. 1315 
 
 5. Johw Hardy, instituted 3. Oct. 134^ 
 
 6. John de Volant succeeded 24. April, 1362 
 
 7. Richard Auncell succeeded 7. Dee. 1385 
 
 8. ^'t7/«a»»XiCHw&er< succeeded 1. Oct. 1410 
 In 3. Regist. Lacy, fo. 43 an indulgence appears 
 
 to have been granted, of forty days, to all who should 
 eontribute to a new causeway from Marazion to Sk 
 Mi«ha:e!l's. 
 
148 
 
 AXMOUTH. 
 
 X HIS manor, with its parochial church, belonged 
 to the Benedictine abbey of Montburgh, in the diocese- 
 of Constance, in Normandy. The priory of Lodres, 
 in Dorsetshire, a cell to Montburgh, was permitted to 
 receive the temporalities of the said church and 
 manor. But 1 see no reason to believe that any 
 priory existed at Axmouth. 
 
 In the registers, I observe that Bishop StapeldoB 
 admitted Roger Harriel, Prior of Lodres, to the cus- 
 tody of the church of Axmouth, in the year 1320 — 
 that Bishop Grandisson admitted Simon de Lond& 
 to the same ofSee, on the 31. Dec. 1355, and Robert 
 Dormer, on 6. Nov. 1361 ; that Sampson Trigal, 
 Prior of Lodres, was also admitted, by Bishop Stafford, 
 to the said custody in 1396. 
 
 In the Taxatio of King Edward I. the manor of 
 Axemuei is valued at £10. 13s. 4d. the tenth is fixed 
 at£l. 1. 4. 
 
 On the suppression of Lodre Priory, in 1414, the 
 manor and church of Axmouth were granted by 
 Henry V. to his monastery of Sion House. I have 
 seen a presentation by the Abbess and Convent of 
 Sion to the church of Axmouth, in the year 1428. 
 
 A chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, in Axmouth 
 parish, is mentioned in 1. Regist. Stafford, fo.238. 
 
H9 
 
 CARS WELL. 
 
 J. HIS priory, situate in the Deanery of Plymptre, 
 was a small cell for two Monks, as Leiand informs 
 us, and was dependent on the Cluniac Monastery of 
 Montaeute, in Somersetshire. 
 
 In the Taxatio, so often quoted, I read as follows : — 
 
 PRIOR DE CARESWEIiE HABET. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Apud Careswell 2. 18 
 
 Apud Monckecoln de redd & pquis.-t.. 1 
 
 In Paroch de Sampford que tax ad 14 
 
 Snmma £5 3 8 
 
 Decima £0 8 3 J 
 
 In an interesting letter of Bishop Brantyngbam's to 
 King Edward III. on the subject of alien priories in 
 the Diocese of Exeter, 2. Regist. fo. 7. ad finem, I 
 observe the prior did not reside at Carswell, Anno 
 48. Edward III. " Frater Radulfns Shalsham indigena 
 Prior de Careswell optinet ecolesiam de Holcombe 
 Rogus que incumbit Priori & Conventui de Monte 
 Acato & non residet in eS.dem cujus fructus & pro- 
 y«ntus annul se extendunt ad XX Librae." 
 
160 
 
 CHULMLEIGH. 
 
 X merely mentioa this collegiate church, in which, as 
 Bishop Graudisson states, S Regist. fo. 158. were six 
 Prebends, in order to remark an apparent confusion 
 iu the registers, as to their names, and even their 
 number. 
 
 In 2. Regist. Brantyngham, fo. 72, occurs the Pre- 
 bend a Ovrerheighes, which seems to be the same which 
 Bishop Redman styles in fo. 2. Overhaye. 
 
 In 2. Regist. Brantyngham, fo. 15. he mentions the 
 Prebend Puella; — in fo. 100. he calls it Puellarum — and 
 Bishop Lacy. g. Regist. fo. 248. calls it Le Maydeja, 
 alias DeQys. 
 
 The Prebend of Dene, occurs in 2. Regist. Lacy, 
 fo. 209 
 
 The Prebend Bucklond occurs fo. 46 and 70. of 
 Veysey's. 
 
 The Prebend Penelles occurs vol. 2. fo. 76- of 
 Brantyngham's ; andyetin fo. IS.of Bishop Bothp's^, 
 Penelles and Northerhaye are considered as the same 
 Prebend. 
 
 The fact appears to be, that the six prebends were 
 originally — 1. Overheighes, or.Oyerbayne. 2. Paellp, 
 or Puellarum, or May den. 3. Denys> or DiBQe. 
 4. Bucklond. 5. Peaelles, 6. Netherhayne. and^ 
 that, subsequently to Girandisson's time, they, were 
 reduced to four, by uniting Denys or Dene to Puelle, 
 or Puellarum ; or Mayden and Penelles to Nether- 
 hayne. 
 
 N. B. 'All these Prebends were in the gift of the 
 Courfenay family. 
 
In closing this work, I beg leave to inform the 
 reader, that I have purposely abstained from 
 noticing the Cathedral of Exeter and the Collegiate 
 Chapel of the Castle in this City ; intending to 
 speak of them, at large, in my History of Exeter. 
 
Aipjpi^MDaa^:. 
 
 ■«»♦»■ 
 
 T. 
 
 Ca) Referred to from p. 1 . 
 The Legend of Saint Olave. 
 
 HE following Legend was copied by me from the 
 MS. Ordinate compiled by Bishop Grandisgon, penes 
 Decanum & Capitulum Epelesie Cathedr. Exon. 
 Lectio Quabta — XXIX Julii. 
 Beatus OLAVUS Rex NorwegjeMemevangelicam 
 ex Angli4 compertam devote suseepit & in ijrbe 
 Rothomagi baptizatus est. Nee propriA tamen salute 
 oontentus, novo rerum ordine. Rex vice fungous 
 Apostoli verbum Dei suo populo predieavit. Qui 
 eeiam Leges tarn Divinas quam humanas, mira dis- 
 cretione plenas, seripsit & promulgavit. Set in viA 
 Dei multos perpessus adversarios, quibus resistjere 
 non potuit, seeessit ad Ruciam ad Jerzelaum Regem, 
 cum quo non parvo tempore moratus et sue Religionis 
 celebre monumentum inoolis derelinquens, per Sue- 
 eiam rediit, ac ibidem ab iuitnicis Fidei peremptus est, 
 Anno Dnimillesimo vicesimo octavo. Viderat quippe 
 sanctus Rex antea in sompnis scalam ad celos erec- 
 tam & precedente Passionis sue nocte appa,ruerat 
 ei Dnus Ihs dicens — " Accede ad me, dilecte mi, ut 
 coronam suscipias glorie & honoris :" qu^ visione 
 non modic'iim eomfortatus est et animatus ad Mar- 
 tyrium perferendum. Fertur de eo, qu5d, dum quS- 
 dam DominicA die virgulam cultello, immemor festi, 
 dolaret, & a quodam super hoc commonims fuis^et, 
 facti peniiens, dolaturas virge super propriam nianum 
 congestas combussit, set tamen manus ejus iUega 
 permansit. 
 
 M 
 
(6^ Referred to from p. 2. 
 
 St. Anselm's Letter to Osbem, Bishop of 
 Exeter. 
 
 The following letter is copied from 4. Alford's 
 AnDales Ecclesi8e.Anglican8e, fo. 168. edit. Liege 1663. 
 
 ANSELMUS Dei drspositione vocatiis Archiepis- 
 copus Cantuariensis, Reverendo Epo Exouiensi, Os- 
 berne salutem. Episcopalem decet dignitatem, quos- 
 cumquepotestadservitutem Dei invitare,et volentes 
 Deo servire quibus valet <?onsulendo et adjuvando 
 confortare. HAc igitur fidiici& Reverentiam vestram 
 obseoro, ut MoDaohos de INlouasterio, quod vulg6 
 dicitnr de Bataillff,1n vestrA civitate morantes, propter 
 Deum et propter uostram, si quid ad hoc valere 
 potest, amorem, PaternA et Episcopal! pietate adjn- 
 vetis etab omnibus adversariis pro possibilitate ves- 
 tr& sicut vbs decet, defendatis ; quatenCis si quid 
 boni Deus per illos operari dignabitur, cum illis 
 A Deo retributionem recipiatis. Andivi enim qudd 
 quid am de Clericis vestris fecerunt fllis qusedam 
 quae fieri non oportuit. Unde precor ut pi'sedictis 
 Monachiseam jubeatfs fieri satisfactionem, utdeinceps 
 jbstfe conquer! don possint de Clericorum vestrorum 
 indiscretione. Eosdem quoque Clericos fratern^ 
 cbaritate et paternA fiduciA precando moneo, quate- 
 nilis ita se habeant erga eosdem fratres, ut ipsA cari- 
 tatis exhibitione et benignA familiaritate probent sib! 
 
 £lacere profectum illorum et studium ad serviendum 
 >eo. Qu6d autem prohibitis eos pulsare Sig^na sua 
 secundum Ordtnem suura, nusquAm recte fieri solet ; 
 nisi libi Monachi in Major! EcclesiA Civitatis deser- 
 vient. Ubi enim Canoniei in Majore EcclesiA Civi- 
 tatis ad serviendum Deo sunt constituti, unusquisque 
 ordo Canonicoptim scilicet et Monachorum, secun- 
 dum oppprtuhitatem serviti! sibi i&juncti, tardant vel 
 festinant Signa pulsalre absque 6mn! rectA prohi- 
 bitione. Quapropt^r ratione ipsA comteioniti, eos 
 Signa sua seQundum Ordinem suum ptilsiare ddnceps 
 prohibere ne velitis. Hoc quoque pettint ipsi Fratres, et 
 ego cum illis et pro illis, utsi quando in aliquo concur- 
 su Populi auxilium postulare volunt ad Ecclesie suae 
 constructionem. nuUatenfis prohibeantur. — Valete. 
 
HI 
 
 Referred to from p. 10. 
 Monumead fi^ Hw y^mrfnifle ffellouin. 
 
 In,tf}e,mi(id|e;«f4!ie.Chapjer House of ^^^^^ 
 lies biiriea the toiii^djer .^^Ij/iin, ^erioum, of Irerrouin. 
 The ancient monuineiit, whicif haa^D^en erected over 
 his grave in the eleventh century, was removed in 
 1714, and a new one of -white marble, gnpported by six 
 pillars of oriental jasper, was placed in its stead. 
 On this monument was eDgravea the following 
 epitaph : — 
 
 IJic jaq^t 
 
 Primus liujusce J^ona-st^niXonjijitoif et A^^^s, 
 
 Frimariee inter Nownannos nobilitatis, 
 PatreAnsgoto, Matre Heloide, inpagoBrionensinatus; 
 
 Inter armorum strepitus summd cum laude, 
 inter aulse illecebras summd cum integritate, versatus, 
 Abjecto militise secularis paludamento, 
 Chiisto deinceps militaturus, 
 Ab Herberto Lexovien. Episcopo habitu monastico 
 induitur. 
 Et ut Christum haberet haereditatem, 
 Bonorum suorum Christum instituit hseredem; 
 -Quqs agros, quondam possederat dives, 
 Hos coluit pauper, eoluit et jejunus, 
 Ut cibns fieret Pauperum, 
 Et laborantis sudor et fames jejunantis; 
 Labores diurnos, nocturnis levabat precibus. 
 Ut cum v4rtutum studiis studia Utterarum eonjun- 
 geret, 
 Litteras quadragenarius discere non erubuit: 
 Et Beccensi monasterio Litterarum aperuit Gim- 
 nasium, 
 In quo Paternse Pietatis alumnos et faseredes, 
 Ecclesiarum Prsesules candid atos^ 
 Lanfranoum, Anselmuni, 
 
IV 
 
 Plurimosque alios sni similes discipnlos 
 
 Ad omne Tirtutis officium suis informabat exemplis 
 
 iCbbas Virtati simillimus. 
 
 Qui plenus operibas bonis 
 
 Mortem obiit VII Kal. Sept. A.D. MLXXIIl, vitse 
 
 LXXXIII. 
 
 Patri de se optim^ merito 
 
 ^ternnm hoe Pietatis monumentam PP. 
 
 Monachi Beccenses, Congregationis S. Maari, 
 
 Anno Dni MDCCXIV. 
 
fd) Referred to from pp. 11. 12. 
 
 Resignation by the Prior of Cowic, of his 
 Priory, in 1457. 
 
 Ex S. Regist. Laoy, fo. 380. 
 
 25. die mensis Marcii A. D. 1462 incipiente, et 
 anno translationis 32. apud Clyst, Dnus Epus recepit 
 banc resigDacionem sive dimissionem Priorat^s de 
 Cowyk, Exon Dioe, per Robertum de Rotomago, 
 nuper et itlnmediat^ Priorem ejusdem, coram Thomft 
 Clyst clerioo Wynton Dioc, auctoritate Apostolic^ 
 Notario Publico, et In scriptis, sub signo, nomine et 
 subscriptione dicti Notarii, redaetam, cujus tenor 
 resignacionis seu dimissionis predicts htc sequitur et 
 est talis. 
 
 In Dei nomine, Amen. Per presens publicum in- 
 strumentum cunctis appareat evidenter, qu5d anno 
 ab Incarnatione Dni 14S1, Indictione quinta decim4, 
 Pontificates Sacratissimi in Xto' Patris et Qni nrj Dni 
 Nicholai Divlni Providentla Pape Qulnti anno 5, 
 mensis Novembrls die 22, in earner^ Reverendi Ma- 
 gistri Willelmi Westbury, Prepositi CoUegii Regalis 
 Beate Marie de Eton juxta Wyndesorum, infra dic- 
 tum Collegium, in mei Notarii Publici et Testium in* 
 frascriptorum presenci^ constitutis personaliter, vir 
 honestus Bobertus de Rotomago, seu quocumque alio 
 modo nominatus, nuper nuncupatus Prior de Cowyk 
 in Com Devon Exon Dioc, quasdam renunciationem, 
 resignacionem seu dimissionem realiter fecit, et in 
 scriptis redactas legit, sub hkc forma. 
 
 *' In Dei nomine, Amen, Coram vobis authentic^ 
 personal et testlbus htc presentibus, Ego Robei'tus de 
 Rotomago, seu quocumque alio modo nominatus, 
 Prior PrioratAs de Cowyk, In Com Devon. Exon 
 Dioc notorle situati, ex certis causis lioitis me inh^c 
 parte moventlbus, ab onere et occupatione dicti Prio- 
 ratds de Cowyk, penitfts exui et exonerari cupienis et 
 
VI 
 
 afTectaus, non vi, metu, dolo seu fraude, neo aliqiio 
 alio modo iniquo seu medio, induotusad hoc ; sed ex 
 mek propria et liberfi, voluntate, maturA deliberatioiie 
 prohabit^, dictum Prloratum de Covvyk cum princi- 
 pali manso j&jusdem, maneriis, doiuinicis, terris, tene- 
 mentis, redclitiBus, ptertfneiiciii, bbSci^, molendinis, 
 fevencionibus, pencionibus, porcionibus, ftuctubus, 
 decimiset emolumentis quibuscumque, advocaiioifiOTi's 
 Ecclesiarum, Recioriarum, Vicariarum, Capellarum et 
 Cantariarum, instrumentis, cartis et munimeufis ad 
 dictum Prioratum quocumqne modo speotantibus, et 
 allis quibuscumque suis pertinenciis universis, in 
 manus caju^cumqae hojusmodi resignacipnem admit- 
 tendi potestatem haben'tis siye habituri, libera sponte, 
 purfe, sirripliciter et absolute resigno, omHique jure, 
 statu, titiilo et interesse meis posthabitis in eisdem 
 Prioiatu, Mapso Prineipali et ceteris premissis, re- 
 liunCio et £ft) eisdem recede totaliter." 
 
 In hiis scriptis acta sunt bee omnia et singula prout 
 superids scribuntur et recitantur sub anno Dni, In- 
 dictio'ilfej Pontificatu, Mense, Die et Loco predictis, 
 presentibus tunc ibidem discretis et tionestis viris 
 Dno Jolie Ffrenshe, presbyiero, Johe Gipthprpe et 
 Thomd Hylle, literatis Exon et Lincoln I Hoc. fit 
 ego Thomas Clyff, clericus, Wynton Dioc, auctori- 
 tate Apis, Notarius Publicus, premissis renunclationi, 
 resignacioni et diinissioni Dni, sic ut prefertur, in 
 subscript©, sub Anno Dni, ludict^one, Ponti^catu> 
 I^ense, Die et Loco predictis, age'bantur et fiebant 
 unA ciim prenomjnatis testibus, presens preterea in- 
 terfui, eaque sic fieri vidi et audivi, per aliuni scribi 
 feci, meque hie subscripsi Publicum et in hdc public^ 
 form& redegi, meisque nomine et signo sojitis et con- 
 suetis signavi rogatus et requisitus in fidem et testi* 
 monium omnium premissorum. 
 
 Post cujus quidem renunciationis, resignacionis 
 sive dimissionis receptionem, idem Dominus (Ed- 
 mundus Lacy) fuit ex parte Excellentissimi in Xto 
 Principis et Dni Dni Henrlci Dei gr& Regis Anglic, 
 Francie illustris et Dni Hybernie, ad fnstantiam mul- 
 tiplicit^r rogatus et requisitus, quateniis eaudem resig- 
 nacionem admittere dignaretur : idem Dnus ver6 
 dictis supplicationibus et requisioionibus ac mandatis 
 
dicti Dni Regis in premissis indinare, et ut tenetur 
 obedire voleDs, prefatam resignacionem auctoritate 
 sak Diocesand in form& juris pro tribunal! sedens 
 admisit et ipsum Priorem resignantem k curk et re- 
 gimine ipsiiCls PrioratAs penittts exoneravit, tunc ibi- 
 dem presentibus Venerabili Tiro Magistro Rogero 
 Keys, Archidiacono ArchidiaconatAs Barum in Ec- 
 clesii Cathedral! Exon et Canonico, ao discretis viris 
 Willo Okedon et Willo Water alias Burdeaux, lite- 
 ratis Exon, necnon Conventr et Lich ac Wynton 
 Dioe, testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter et ro- 
 gatis, ac me Willo Elyot, clerico dicti Exon Dioc, 
 auctoritate Apl&, Notario publico, Actorum hujus- 
 modi dicti Dni Exon Epi, Scribd &c. - 
 
VUl 
 
 (e) Referred to from p. 17. 
 
 Answer of the Convent of Polslo to Q^n 
 Philippa, from 1. Regist. Grandson, 
 fo. 66. 
 
 A lour treshoncrableet Ires puissaunte et redqulee 
 Dame, ma dame, dame Phelipe par la grace de Diu, 
 JRoyne Dengletre &c. ses poveres et humbles aunceles 
 nounaynes dePolslow quant quelas poout de reveren- 
 ces et honours emprauntes votre douce pitee que mer- 
 ceyeytde notre graund povertee. Notre tresnoble 
 dame nos avoms recu vos lettres par les qeles iios 
 entendoms que votre voluntee sereit que nos re- 
 cuixssoms Johanete de Tourbeuyle entre nos come 
 Soer de la meson a prenre le certem d'une nonnayn 
 en seculer habite : de qiel chose, tresdeboneire Dame 
 par lamour de Dieu et sa Mere prengez pitee de nos 
 si vos plest: gar certeynement unqes nule Royne tiel 
 chose ne demaanda de notre petite meson avant, hors 
 Convent que par avanture faire le soleyent des autres 
 mesons qui furenl foundees par les Rois et tient en 
 chief deaux. Mes ceo ne fesons nos mie dount il nos 
 poise : et sil plesoit a votre deboneire hauteste de 
 savoir de notre simple estat, nos sumes si poveres, 
 Diu le siet, et tot le pois que quant que nos avons, 
 ne suffit mie a petite sustenaunce de nos qui devons 
 faire de jour et de nuit le Service Dieu. — Si par eyde 
 des amys noun ne ny puissoms estre chargees de 
 Seculiers sauns abregier le noumbre de nos Reli- 
 giouses en enieunsement de servise Dieu et par in- 
 
 de perpetuel de notre powere Mesoun. Et nos 
 
 esperons fermement en Dieu et en votre graund 
 bounte que ia a mal ne prenrez, si tiel chose ne se 
 face en peril de nos almes ; gar de entreir et accom- 
 mencier tiel novele charge en si petit liu qui dureyt 
 et serolt trop graunt peril de Votre alme, m;i Dame 
 vers Dieu. Deynt Diu vos defend par sa grace 
 
IX 
 
 Notre tresbenette Dame, Dieu vos doynt bone vie et 
 longe et plesaunte de ly, et aide et alegemeiit de nos 
 etautres poveres servantes de Dieu en terre et mont 
 aureyoras graund joie faiie vos comaundemens si 
 Dieu nos otreast le poer. 
 
 Bishop Grandi»son^s letter to the Queen, on 
 the same subject. 
 
 See 1. Regist. fo. 69. 
 
 Cher Sire, Nos avons recu et entendu vos letties 
 pour Johauele de Tourbeuyle votre Cosine & Dlu 
 siet, que la volunte ne nous faut mye a faire vos 
 requestes. Mes pureed. Sire, que les povers Dames 
 de Polslogh netienent rien si de espiritantee noun, et 
 nos lour sumes en lui de Patron, mont nos tournereit 
 a graunde reproeste, si en notre noveaute assen-, 
 tissomis a eharcheir si povere Meson de sustenaunce 
 de nule femme qui seit, especiianment en seeuler 
 habite et plus faet a chargeir. Si tiel chose fiust, ore 
 de novel acomence, si seriet toz jours itoes chalaunge 
 en perpetuel seivage de . oeles qui uncore sunt 
 fraunches quant a ceo, qui sereit a Outrage grand 
 peril a tous ceaux qi le feissont ou procurassent. Et 
 pourceo, cher Sire,, si vos plest. nos eiez excuse de 
 ceste chose et ostez vos meymes de cele pensee et 
 pour lamour de vos a qui nos sumes mont avaunt 
 tenuz. Et pour mounstrer que nos ne nos feyngoms 
 mye, ordinez, sil vos plest, par aillours de son estat 
 et nos ymettrons. mont voluntiers purement de notre 
 bien resonablement ; gar ceo poums nos sauvement 
 faire votre volunte. Chere Sire, nos voillez mauudeir 
 favorabjement ; gar prest serons nos touz jours de 
 laire a notre poer. 
 
(/) Referred to from p. 18. 
 
 The Grant of Polslo to Sir George Carewe 
 and Mary hts wife.* 
 
 HENRICUS Ocfavus Dei GraliA Anglie et Franoie 
 Rex, Fidei Defensor, Dnus Hibernie et in terris 
 supremum caput Anglicane Ecclesie, oibs ad quos 
 presentes litere pvenerint Salutem, Sciatis qu6d nos 
 in consideratione boni, veri et fideljs servitii qd 
 dileetus servus noster Georgius Carewe, Miles, ante 
 hec tempora nobis fecit, ac pro certislaliis-causis nos 
 ad presens specialiter moventibus, de gratis nostr& 
 special! ac ex cert4 soienti^ et mero motu nostris, 
 dedlmus, concessimus ac per presentes damus et 
 concedimus eidem Georgio Carewe et Marie uxori 
 ejus, lotatn Domum et Scitum nuper Monasterii sive 
 Frioratfts de Polsloo in Com. nostro Devon, auctOf 
 ritate Parliamenti suppress! et dissoluti, Ac omnia 
 mcssuagia, domos, edificia, horrea, columbaria, 
 slagna, vivaria, ortos, pomaria, gardina, terram et 
 solum nostra tam infr^ qu^m extr& ac juxta et prope 
 scitum, septum, ambitum, circuitum et precinctum 
 diet! nuper Monasterii sive PrioratAs de Polsloo ex- 
 isteniia, Ac totum Manerium nostrum de Polsloo cum 
 suis juribus, membris et pertinentiis in dicto Com. 
 nostro Devon, dicto nuper Monasterio sive Prioratni 
 dudum pertinentibus sive spectantibus, ac parcella 
 possessionum inde existentes, Ac oia maneria, grangia, 
 molendina, messuagia, terras, tenementa, prata, 
 paseua, pasturas, redditus, reversiones, servicia, 
 annuitates, sursumredditiones quibuscnmque dimis- 
 sionibus et concessionibus reservatas, aquas, piscaria, 
 liberas warennas, feoda militum, feodl firmas, es- 
 chaeta, relevia, heriota ac alia proficua, jura, com- 
 
 • E Collcptt. MSS, Jonnnis Jones, de Frnnklyn, Arm. 
 
XI 
 
 moditates, possessioncs et hereditamenta nostra que- 
 eumqile cnin pertinend'is, situala jacentia vel exis- 
 tentia in Paroclria, de Hevytre in dicto Com. nostro 
 Devon, dicto nuper Monasferio sive Prioratui perti- 
 nentia sive spectantia ac parcejlas posstessionum 
 ejiisdem nuper Monasterii sive Prioratrts existenfes, 
 adefV plene et integrfe, ac in tam amplis modo et 
 for»i4, prout ultima Priorissa et nuper Conventus 
 dioti nuper Monasterii sive Prioratds, ant aliqua 
 vel alique Predecessorum suorum in jure nuper 
 Monasterii sive Prloratds illius, aliqiio tempore ante 
 dissOlucionem ejusdem nuper Monasterii sive Priora- 
 tfts predict!, maneria, messuagia, terras, tenementa et 
 Cetera prertiissa superiils specificata, vel aliquam i«de 
 parefellam, habuerunt, tenuerunt vel gavisi fuerunt, 
 faabuit, tenuit vel gavisus fuit, seu habere tenere vel 
 gaudere debuerunt vel debuit, et ade6 plen6 et ih- 
 tegr^, ac in tam amplis modo et formA prout ea oia 
 et singula ad manus nostras, ratione vel pretextu 
 Dissoluciouis dicti nuper Monasterii sive PrioratAs 
 illius, aut ratione vel pretextu alicujus ActAs Parlia- 
 menti vel alio quocumque modo devenerunt seu 
 deveriire debuerunt, ae in manibus nostris jam exis- 
 tunt seu existere debent vel deberent. ExCeptis tamen 
 semper et nobis et heredibus et successoribus ndstris 
 reservatis grossis arboribus et subboscis ae advoca- 
 tionibus Ecclesiarum, ac oibs talibus et hujusmodi 
 edificiis infra scitum dicti nuper Monasterii, que nos 
 ibidem prosterni mandavimus. Habendum, tenendum 
 et gaudendum dictum Scitum dicti nuper Monasterii 
 sive PrioratAs, ac predictum Manerium, terram, te- 
 nementnm et cetera oia et singula premissa superiils 
 expressa et specificata cum suis pertinentiis univer- 
 sis, exceptis pritls exceptis, prefato Georgio Carewe, 
 oxori ejus a[c eorum assignatis ad terminum vite 
 tiornm Georgii et Marie ae eorum utriuSque diucius 
 viventis. Reddendo inde annuatim £XXTX. Ills. Id. 
 ad festa Annunciationis Beate Marie Virginis et Sci 
 Michaelis Archangeli per equales porciones annuatim 
 solvendas. Et ulterids volumus et per presentes con- 
 eedimus, qu6d nos, heredes et successores nostri de 
 tempore in tempus acquietabimus, exonerabimus, 
 et annuatim defendemus dictos Georgium Carewe et 
 
XII 
 
 IVlariain ac eorum Assignatos, versus quascnmque 
 alias personas, de omnibus et omnimodis feodis, an- 
 nuitatibus, serviciis quibuscumque de predictis ma- 
 neriis, terris, tenementis et ceteris premissis exeun- 
 tibus seu solvendis, vel superinde oneratis, preter- 
 quam de redditu superiCis per presentes reservato, et 
 preterquam versus Georgium Manerying, Ballivnm 
 Monasterii predieti, pro feodo sive aniiuali redditu 
 LIlIs. IVd. pro executione officii Ballivatds predieti. 
 Proviso semper qu6d pjredicti Gebrgius et IMaria 
 omnes domos et edificia premissorum de tempore in 
 tcmpus reparabunt et sustentabunt et manutenebunt 
 durante termino predlcto, ad quas quidem repara- 
 ciones volumus ac per presentes i^oncedimus quod 
 idem Georgius et Marie de temjiore in tempus habe- 
 bunt et percipient sufiBcientem maremiem super pre- 
 missis per Supervisorem supremum aut alium Officia- 
 riorum nostrorum pro tempore existentium, assignan- 
 dam at deliberandam. Volumus eciam, per presentes 
 concedimus quod benfe licebit prefatis Georgio 
 Carewe et Marie ac eorum Assignatis habere et per- 
 cipere de et super premissis,' per supervisionem et 
 assignationem Supervisoris et aliorum Officiariorum 
 nostrorum Premissorum j)ro tempore existentium, 
 competentem et sufBcientem hedgebote. firebote, 
 ploughbote et cartebote super premissis et non alibi, 
 annuaiim exercendum et oecupandum durante ter- 
 mino predicto. Et ulteriils de uberiorl gratid nostra 
 damns et concedimus per presentes prefatis Georgio 
 Caiewe et Marie omnimod exitus, redditus, reven- 
 ciones et proficua predieti Manerii, terre, tenementi 
 et eeterorum omnium et singulorum premissorum su- 
 periCisexpressorum et specifieatorum cum pertioen- 
 tiis, El festo Sci Michaelis Archangel! ultimo preierito 
 quousqu^ provenientibus sive crescentibus. Haben- 
 dum eisdem Georgio et Marie et eorum assignalis ex 
 dono nostro, absque compoto seu aliquo alio proiude 
 nobis, heredibus velsuccessoribns nostrisquoquo mo- 
 do reddendo, solvendo vel faciendo, e6 qu6d expressa 
 mentio de vero valore annuo aut de certitudine pre- 
 missorum,,sive eorum alicujus, aut de aliis donis sive 
 couoessionibus per nos prefatis Georgio, Carewe et 
 Marie uxori ejus ante hec tempora faelis in presen- 
 
XIII 
 
 tibus minimi factis existlt, aliquo Statuto, aut ordi- 
 natione seu provisione aut aliquS, all^ re, causS, vel 
 materia quS,cumqae in aliquo non obstante. In cujus 
 rei testimonium has literas nostras , fieri fecimus 
 Patentes. Teste Ricardo* Ryche, Milite, apud West- 
 monasterium I. die Februarii, Anno regni nri XXXII. 
 
 • This gentleman was Speaker of the House of Commons and Chancellor 
 of the- Augmentation Coiirt :— See Lord's Journals. 
 
sir 
 
 (r/) Referred to from p. 28. 
 
 Form of 'the 'Oath tctkeu by the Pn'fscetdor 
 and Vicars of Crediton : — and Inventory 
 oj the church ornaments there. 
 
 Ego N. Precentor Kcclie Collegiate Sancte Crucis 
 Crediton, debitas, antiquas et a{)probatas consuetn- 
 dines ac statuta illius Ecclesie, quantum ad me atti- 
 net, fideliter oBservabo, et ero fidelis confratribus 
 Canonicis mels universis et singulis, preteritis, pre- 
 sentibus et futuris : seereta Capituli ad dampniim ip- 
 sius vel alioujus de Capitulo non revelabo. Sio me 
 Deusadjuvetet heo saneta, &c. Regist. Redman, fo. 4. 
 
 A Canon's oath was the same, mutatis mutandis. 
 
 Form of the Vicar's oath. — Regist. Veysey, fo 20. 
 
 Ego N. juro qu6d ero obediens Precentorl et Ca- 
 pitulo Ecclesie Collegiate de Crediton, et eidem 
 Ecclesie fidelis. Et qu6d ordinationes et statuta 
 Ecclesie predicte, quateniis me concernunt, pro 
 posse observabo. Et qu6d secretum Ecclesie in 
 dampnum ejusdem non revelabo. Et qu5d non dis- 
 cedam k CoUegio predicto ad commorandum alibi, 
 priusquam Precentorem et Capitulum de meo discessu 
 per spatium sex mensium premonebo. Sic me Deus 
 adjuvet, &c. 
 
 The following memorandum is copied from Regist. 
 Veysey, fo. 30-31. 
 
 Here after folowe the how many cots with juelles, 
 upon them to, perteynnyng to the Holy Roode, 
 vowyed by Sir Richard Eryngfon, Chaunter ; Sir 
 Walter Muggs, Thresaurer ; Robert Froste, Chanon ; 
 and Mr. John Holwell, Parson of Tettburne ; and 
 Sir William Renawdon, Vicar Chorall, the 3d daycof 
 Maie, A.D. 1624. 
 
 Imprimis a cote of blewe veljvett with Damaske 
 
XV 
 
 flowrs with 3 gylte crosse, 2 brode arowys, 4 silver 
 bokkyll, and 93 ryngs all gylt — 146 grotts, one of 
 them slen gylte over— an ymage of silvet in a plate — 
 a plate lyk a trewelove. 
 
 Item a cote of sylver wl(h the lilly pott in the 
 mydds ; and in ony side a byrde with a gyrdle — =the 
 cross blewe with 26 great gylte barrs, 42 small barrs, 
 gylte with the bokyll and peiadent of the same. 
 
 Item a gyrdle, the crosse goolde with bokyll and 
 pendent of the same all gilte. 
 
 Item a gyrdle, the crosse blakke with 12 great 
 barrs and 32 small barrs clene sylver vvith bokyll.and 
 pendent. 
 
 Item apayre of Beedsall sylver, with 63 Ave Marys 
 and 6 Pater Nosters. 
 
 Item a brooche of Goolde and on of silver — a sil- 
 ver bokyll without a tong. 
 
 Item a gyrdill the crosse redde with 40 barrs of 
 sterrs andigilte, 4 lackyng theyr'hedds with bokyll 
 and pendent. 
 
 Item a shypp of sylv&r.— Item a'barte of silver. 
 
 Item a cote of ctymsen velvet algyd about with 
 letters povvderde with a blewe gyrdill of 41 'barrs all 
 gilte with bokyll and, pendent to the same. 
 
 Item a^yrdell, the crosse goolde with bcVkyll and 
 pendent all>;gilte. 
 
 Item a paler of corell bedds with 20 silver stones. 
 
 Item a paier of sylver bedds, '65 stbnes.—Item 3' 
 grotts. 
 
 Item a pajer of corell bedds vyith 8 crosses of 
 goolde and a lytic stone pf goMandSstons of sylver 
 and gylte. 
 
 Item a gyrdell, Ihe crosse r^de with 24 barrs all 
 gilt, the bokkyll and the pendent. 
 
 Item 4 Grucifixis of sylver ai>d gilte. 
 
 Item a«taffe and scryppe of^Seynt James. 
 
 Item anwwche of^goofde— a,g6olde ryng— a fltfwre 
 of silver and gylte like a: cfogse. 
 
 ' Item 3 Agnus Dei, the on with a crucifix ys Jn fiim . 
 — a thyf d pece of silver with a crosse. 
 
 Item a cote of jsilver, the-growndeWewe. 
 
 Item a grene gyrdell with 35 ' bars all gilte with a 
 long bokyll and a pendent. 
 
XVI 
 
 Kem a redde gyrdell, with '^i barrs all giUe bokyll 
 atid pendent. 
 
 Item a grene gyrdell of 41 barrs all gilte with crook 
 and pendent havyn a 16ng ebayn. 
 
 Item a pair of eorall beeds with a eleven stones 
 gilte. 
 
 Item a green gyrdell with 21 bars and gilte, three 
 of them lackyng theyr hedds with bokyll & pendent. 
 
 Jocalia ponderata more Aurifabrorum 20 die Mail 
 A. D. 1524, presentibus Dominis Ricardo Eryngton, 
 Preeentore ; Waltero Mugge, Thesaurario ; Roberto 
 Ffrosle, Canonico ; et Georgio Mason, Decano ; et 
 Johanne Holwell, Reotore de Tettburn ; seqaentia. 
 
 Oz. dwt 
 
 Imprimis a cross of silver gilt, an4 amelid 
 with oaken leaves, ponderyng 66 
 
 Item 2 bason parcell gilt with roses in the 
 mydds 39| 
 
 Item 2 candelstykks of silver, parcel gilte . 
 with Lyons hedds 96 
 
 Item a foote of a crosse hole gilte with 
 imagery, viz. of Angells in the same lOS^ 
 
 Item a Censer et peroell gilte of silver ... 28 
 
 Item another Censer of silver Liberds 
 hedds 22| 
 
 Item a shyppe of silver parcell gilte cum 
 sculpture in coopertorio 16| 
 
 Item another shyppe of silver parcell gilte 
 with a Lyberd's hedd ..\ 161 U 
 
 Item an other Pyxe of silver, hole gilte 
 with crucifix in the topp 17 
 
 Item a Moustrate, silver, hole gilte with 
 a berall in the mydds and a crucifix in the 
 topp 37| 
 
 Item a double standyng crosse, with a 
 crucifix in the mydds for feliques of silver 
 andholegilte 10 
 
 Item 2 Gospelers with plates silver and 
 gilte with Mary and John on the on of 
 themme « * 
 
xvn 
 
 oz. Dwr. 
 
 It€?m 6 chales : on ys all goolde with the 
 
 Patent of goolde ponderyng 15 10 
 
 N. B. This chales valewyd at .£22. 
 
 Item a chales of silver hole gilte and a pa- 
 tent to the same 38 
 
 I tem an other chales, of silver parcel! gilte 
 and his patent 13 10 
 
 Item an other chales of silver, parcel gilte 
 and his patent Hi 
 
 Item an other chales of silver and patent 
 parcel gilte , • 15 
 
 Item an other chales and patent of silver 
 and parcellgilte 17 
 
 Item 2 candelstykks of silver and parcell 
 gilte... 67 
 
 Item, a rodde of iron platyd over with 
 sylver < * 
 
 Item a rownd Pixe of siWer for the sacra- 
 ment hole gelde r 131 
 
 • The value of this Article is not st«ted iu the Register. 
 
xviir: 
 
 (h) Referred to from p: 43.' 
 
 King John's Charter de Libertatihus Cmni^ 
 tattis Devoniee. 
 
 Ex Regist. StapeldoDj.fo. 152'. 
 
 MemiQrandum, qu6d Carta Originalis Regis i^nglie^ 
 de Libertatihus Comifiattls Devonie manet in custodia; 
 Abbatis et Conventfis Tavestoch' sub hAo forniA 
 
 " HENRICUS Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hi- 
 bernie, Dux Normannie, Aquitanie et Comes Ande- 
 gavie, ArchiepiscO]pis, Episcopis, Abbatibus, Priori- 
 blis, Comitibus, Baronibus, Justieiariis, Forestariis, 
 VicecomitibUSj Pi'epositis, MiiiistriS etomnibus Bal- 
 livis et FideJibus suis, Satufem : INSPEXIMDS' car- 
 tam quam Domiilus Johaunes Rex, Pater noster, 
 fecit omnibus hominibus de tola. Devon in hac formS. 
 
 JOHANNES, Dei gratia, Rex Anglie, Dominus 
 Hibernie,, Dux Normannie et Aquitanie, Comes Ande- 
 gavie,. ArchiepiseopiSy Episcopis, Abbatibus, Priori- 
 bus, Comitibus, Baconibus, Justieiariis, Forestariis, 
 Vieeeoraitibus. Prepositis, Ministris et oranabus Bal- 
 Mvis et fidelibiis suis^ Salutem. Sciatisnos defores- 
 tasse totam Devoniam cum omnibns que ad Fo»estam- 
 et ad Forestarios pertinent usquead melas antiquorum 
 regardorum de Dertemor& et Exemor^, que regarda 
 fuernnt tempore Regis Henriei primi : ita qa6d totaA>. 
 Devonia et homines in ek manentes et heredes eorunt" 
 sint deafforestati omnin6 et quieti et soluti de nobis 
 et heredibus nostris imperpetuum de omnibus que ad 
 Forestam etad Forestarios pertinent, Exeeptisduabufr- 
 Moris prenominatis, scilicet, Derteraora et Exemora, 
 per predictas metas. Volumus eoiam et eoncedimns 
 quSd predicti'homines de Devonia et heredes eorum 
 habeant eonsuetudines infra Regarda Morarum ilia- 
 rum, sieut habere consueverant tempore predict! Regis 
 Henrieij facieudo inde consuetudinesjquas inde facere - 
 tunc consueverant et debuerant, Et qu6d liceat eis 
 qui voluerihi extra predictas metas essartare, parcos 
 facere, omnimodam venationem capere, canes, arcus- 
 
ei sa^ittas et alia omnimoda arma habere et saltatoria 
 facere, nisi in Divisis prediotarum Morarum, ubi non 
 poterunt saltatoria vel haias facere. Et si oanes 
 eorum excurrerint in Forestam nostram, volumus 
 qu6d ipsi indd deducantur sicut et alii Barones et 
 Milites inde deducuntur, qui sunt deafforestati etqu6d 
 marchiant alibi foreste nostre. Et volumus quod 
 unus turnus Vicecomitis tanttina fiat per annum iu Co- 
 mitatu Devonie, et ille turnus fiat post festum Sanoti 
 Michaelis ad inquirendum Plaeita Corone et alia que 
 ad Coronam pertinent eum oooasionibus aliarum fa- 
 eiendis, et qu5d plures turnos non faciat, nisi pro 
 placitis Corone cfim eveniunt attachiandis cum Coro- 
 natoribus et pro pace asseeurandS, : ita qu5d in itinere 
 suo nicliil capiat ad opus snum. De personabus 
 vero que capte fuerint in Comitatu Devonie, de quibns 
 Vieecomes faabeat potestatem eos replegiandi et quo- 
 rum plegraginoi Comitatus Devonie voluerit super se 
 Capere : volumus et concedimus qu6d per consilium 
 eorum repleglentur ; ita qu6d per odium vel ocea- 
 sionem Vicecomitis alterius in Prison^ non detinean- 
 tur. Et si Vieecomes injust6 gravaverit predictos 
 homines Devonie et inde convictus fuerit, jacet in 
 misericordiam nostram et nos de eo misericordiam 
 capiemus et alium Viceoomitem eis substitueihug, qui 
 ©is bene et legaliter tractabrt 
 
 Teste, Domino Hereberto, Sarum Episcopo 
 Galfrido filio Petri, Comite Essex 
 Baldewino, Comite Albemarlie 
 Willelmo, Comite de Fferariis 
 gj^^ Henrico, Comite Hereferd 
 
 *"* Willelmo de Braos 
 
 Hugone de Nevill 
 Willelmo Briwerr 
 Simone de PateshulL 
 Datum per manum Domini S. Cieestr, electi, apud 
 WyntonXVIH. die Maii, Anno Regni nostri V. 
 
 NOS autem concessiones predictas ratas habentes 
 et gratas, eas pro nobis et heredibus nostris conce- 
 dimus et confirmavimus, sicut Carta predicti Domini 
 Johannis Regis Patris nostri plenids et liberiils tes- 
 tatur : hiis Testibus, 
 
Venerabili Patre Waltero Ebor. Arcbiepiscopo; 
 Anglie Primate 
 
 Petro de Sabaud 
 
 Magistro Willo de Kilkenny, Accbdiae Covelr 
 
 Bertramo de Croll 
 
 Ricarrfo de Grei 
 
 Jobanne de Gre' 
 
 Roberto de Bustegs 
 
 Giieberto de Segne 
 
 Roberto Walerand 
 
 Barthol: Peech 
 
 Roberto de Noreis 
 
 Willo de Cheemy 
 
 Johe deGerres et aliis. — Datum per manum nos" 
 tram apud Wyndelesboure XXV Aprilis, anno Regni- 
 nostriXXXVIl." 
 
 Et nos, WALTERUS, permissione Divin& Exon- 
 Episcopns, existentes London, et videntes dictam^ 
 origlnalem Cartam in manibus eujusdam Thome Neu- 
 legyn, cleiJci dieti Abbatis, (cum ipsft Originali per^ 
 fra^em Robertam Champeaux tune Abbatem Tavis- 
 tochie,. London, nt dieebat, .missi) Transcriptum sen 
 Copiam ipsius ut supersoribitur, nobis fieri fecimus 
 VIIL die Octobris, Anno Domini MGCCXX et regni- 
 Regig Edwardi, filii Regis Edwardi, XIV. et in hoc 
 nostro Registro rescribi ad pleuiorem memoriam 
 futurorum. 
 
XXI 
 
 Referable lo p. 41. 
 ^arla Ahbatiee Tavistock, temp. Hen. 11. 
 
 E Libro NigTO Scaccarii, «l Hearne, vol. l.p. 117. 
 edit. Loud. 1771. 
 
 Venerabili Domino suo Henrico, ATaglorum Regi 
 nobilissimo, WALTERUS, Del gratia,' Tavistoch- 
 iensis Ecclesiie Minister humilis, fideles orationes 
 in Chrisito 
 
 Noverit Celsitudo vestra de tenurA Militutn nostro- 
 ■rum, quantum inde soUicitus inquirendo scire potuit 
 parvitas nostra, quod eo anno et die, quo inelytus 
 Rex H. avus vester, -vixit et vlam universee earnis. in- 
 fgressus est, tenuerunt de pauperoulS.domQ nostr^ ; 
 
 Ricardus de Alneto ieodum. IIIl. Militum 
 
 Rogerius Cornutus feodum. II. Militum. 
 
 Radulfus de Oskerevill feodum. II. Militum. 
 
 Willelmus de trJbus Minetis feodum. III. Mtlituttt. 
 
 Reg^naldas de Liddeton feodum. II. Militum. 
 
 ^Galfridus de Legefeodum. I. Militiset diuj. 
 
 Willelmus Gurdet feodum dimidii Militis. 
 
 Hugo de Wichd feodum. I. Militis. 
 
 Robertus Dacus feodum dimidii Militis. 
 
 Willelmus de Crievebere feodum dimrdii Militis. 
 
 Postea vero, in tempore gwerrae, de Dominicis terris 
 ficclesije nostra;, quas ei bons memorise Henricus 
 Rex, Avus vester, restituit perjusticiam suam etpfer 
 Cartas, quas habemus^ et quas audivit aliquando ex- 
 •cellentia vestra, 
 
 Ricardus de Colevfll feod. I, Milit. 
 
 Galfridus de Lega et Willelmus filius ejus feodum 
 dim. milit. ab EcclesiA extorserunt. 
 
 Dilatet Dominus regnum vestrum, «t longo tem- 
 joie eoxjservet. 
 
xxii 
 
 Qi) Referred to from p. 45. 
 
 Patent of King Henry V.IIL creating the 
 Abbot q/" Tavistock a Lord of Parliament. 
 
 Rot. Pat. 5. Hen. VIII. part. 2. M. 22. 
 
 HENRICUS, «&c. Sciatis qu6d, certis considera- 
 tionibus nos specialiter moventibus, et ob specialem 
 devotionem, quam ad Beatam Virginem Mariam 
 matrem Christi, Sanetumque Ruiiionem, in quorum 
 honore Abbatia de Tavistoke, quse de fundatione 
 Nobilium Progenitorum noslroriim, quondam Re- 
 gum Angliae, et nostro Patronatu dedicata existit, 
 gerimus et habemus; hinc est quod de gratiii nostri. 
 speeiali, ac ex certk scienti^ et mero motu nostris, 
 Yolumus eandem Abbatiam sive Monasterium nos- 
 trum gaudere honore, privilegio, et libertatibus Spi- 
 ritualium Dominorum Parliaraenti nostri, Hasredum 
 et Successorum nostrorum ; ideo concessimus, et per 
 praesentes concedimus pro Nobis, Hasredibus et Suc- 
 cessoribiis nostris, quantum in nobis est, dilecto 
 nobis in Christo, Richardo Banham, Abbati de Tavi- 
 stoke prsdicto et successoribus suis, ut eorum quili- 
 bet qui pro tempore ibidem fuerit Abbas, sit et erit 
 unus de Spiritualibps et Religiosis Dominis ' Parlia- 
 ment! nostri, HsBredum et Successorum nostrorum, 
 gaudendo honore, privilegio ae libertatibus ejusdem ; 
 Etinsuper, de uT)eriori gratia nostrd, affeciandp uti- 
 litatem dicti nostri Monasterii, consideraiido ejus 
 distantiam, ita qu6d si contingat aliquem Abbgtem 
 qui pro tempore fuerit, fore vel esseabsentem propter 
 prasdicti Monasterii jatilitatem in non veniendo ad 
 Parliamentum prasdictum Hseredum vel Successorum 
 nostrorum, quam quidem absentlam eidem Abbati 
 pardonamus per praesentes; ita tamen quod tunc 
 solvet pro hujusmodi absentid cujuslibet Parliament! 
 integri, in nostro Scaccario, suum per Attornatum, 
 V. Marcas Nobis Hasredibus sive Successoribus nos- 
 tris toties quoties hoc in futurum contigerit. In 
 cpjug, &c — Teste, &o. XXIII, die Janu^rii, &c. 
 
AxUi 
 
 (A) Referred to 'from p. 46. 
 
 ^ull of Pope Leo X. to Richard Banham, 
 
 Abbot of Tavistock. 
 
 Ex. 2. Regist. Veysey, pp. 45,, & seq. 
 
 LEO, EpiscopHs, Servus Servorum Dei, ad per- 
 .petuam rei memoriam. Decet Romanum PontifiGem 
 in Apostolioe Dignitatis speoulA constitutum, Fi- 
 deliatn persoiiarutn quaciimlibet presertim Rfeligiosa- 
 j-um votis (ex quibus, M^nasteriofum et alioruta 
 •locorum piorum omnium prospero-statui, ipsarumque 
 personarum inibi sub suavi ReJigionis jugo-Aitissimo 
 famulancium, paci et tranquillitati eonsulit) liben- 
 4er annuere et ea que propterea per Predecessores 
 suos Romanos PontijBees provide ordinatione -facta 
 fuerint, approbare et innovare, ute5 firmius illibata 
 persistant, quo frequentiori suo fuerint presidio pro 
 tempore «tabillta, ailiaque uberius adjicere prout per- 
 sonarum prefatarum exposcit devotio, et id .in Do- 
 mino conspicit salubriter expedire. Dudum siquidem 
 a feliois recordationis GELESTINO Papa Tertio 
 Predecessore nostro, emanarunt litere tenoitis subse- 
 quentis « CELESTINUS Episeopus, &c."* 
 
 Cdm autem ,sieut exhibita nobis uuper pro parte 
 
 dUect9ram .fiiiorum RICARDLmoderni Abbatis et 
 
 i^Cc^ventAs Monasterii Beate jyTarie.Virginis.et Sanefi 
 
 Rurapni de Tavistochid, Ocdinis predicti, Exon. Dioc, 
 
 ia Com. Devon, petijtiojDontinabat, ipsi, qui in signum 
 
 |)ereepte -Liberiatis dietos tres aareos Camere Apos- 
 
 toiiee a^riis p^rsolvere singulis consueverunt, Literas 
 
 prefatas, jte sueeessu temporis impugnationi sub- 
 
 jaoea^t.iipsi ab indebitis molestationibus et perturba- 
 
 i'tionibus sublevati, continud pace et tranquillitate frui 
 
 «« sub Regularis Discipline observanti^, quietius & 
 
 Uberius Domino in ejus beneplacito famulatura exhi- 
 
 »eri possint, approbari et innovari ac prefatum 
 
 • This bull was addressed to the Abbot Herbert, 29. May 1I»3.' As it 
 ^may be seen in Dugdale's MonasticoD, I have JDOt copied it from Bp.Vey- 
 'sey's Register, 
 
XXIV 
 
 Monasterium cum Prioratu de COWYK, Ordinis et 
 Diocesis predietorum ac aliis illius Beneficiis etmem- 
 bris, Ricardumque Abbatem, Conveatum et Personas 
 dlcti Monasterii nunc et pro tempore existentes cum 
 eorum rebus et bonis mobilibus ab omni jurisdictione, 
 dominie, potestate, correctione, visitatione et superi- 
 oritate quorumoumque Archiepiscoporum, Episco- 
 porum et aliorum Ordinariorum, Judicum eorumque 
 Officialium et Vicariorum nunc et pro tempore ex- 
 istentiHm,ita tamen quod RICARDUS, etpro tempore 
 existens Abbas et Conventus dicti Monasterii, in 
 signum percepte H Romans Eccleslsl libertatis et 
 exemptionis, dimidiam unciam auri, viz. XX. solidos 
 iegalis monete Anglie, dictis tribus aureis inclusis 
 sea computatis dicte Camere Apostolice in festo 
 Beatorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli annis singulis 
 persolvere omnino teneantur, penitus et omnino de 
 novo eximt et totaliter liberari ac sub dicti beati Petri 
 et Apostolice Sedis protectione suscipi, illosque et 
 lUa nobis et Successoribus nostrls ac Sedi predictis 
 dumtaxat immediate subjici cupiunt QUARE pro parte 
 Abbatis et ConventAs predietorum nobis fuit humi- 
 liter supplicatnm, quatenus literas predictas appro- 
 bare et innovare, ac prefatum Monasterium cum 
 Prioratu predicto ac aliis illius beneficiis et membris 
 Ricardumque Abbatem, Conventum et Personas dicti 
 Monasterii nunc et pro tempore existentes, cum 
 eorum rebus et bonis omnibus mobilibus etim mobilibus, 
 ab omni jurisdlo):l99e, dominio, potestate, correctione, 
 visitatione et superioritate quorumcumque Archiepis- 
 coporumetaliorum Ordinariorun), Judicum eorunjque 
 Officialium et Vicariorum nunc et pro tempore ex- 
 istentium : ita tamen qu5d Richardus et pro tempore 
 existen-s Abbas et Conventus dicti Monasterii in 
 sigqum pejrcepte k Roman^ EccleslA libertatis et ex- 
 emptionis, dimidiam unciam auri Iegalis XX. solidos 
 Iegalis monete Anglie, dictis tribus aureis inclusis 
 seu computatis, dicte Camere Apostolice in festo 
 Beatorum Petri e( Pauli Apostolorum predietorum 
 annis singulis persolvere omnino teneantur, penitus 
 et omnino de novo exiinere et totaliter liberare, ao 
 sub Beati Petri et Sedis hujusmodi protectione sus- 
 cipere, illosque et illas nostra et Successorum oost 
 
XXV 
 
 trorum ac Sedis pcedictorum Protectioni dumtaxat, 
 Itninediate subjicere, aliasque in premissis oportiuie 
 proyidere et benignitate Apostojicadiguaremui-NOS 
 igitur, qui Monasteriorum et locoium predictorum 
 felicem statum, assiduumque Religiosarum persoii- 
 aruia hnjusmodi Divinis laudibus dedicafanim in 
 tranquiliitate Altissimo famulatum, semotis omnibus 
 obstaculis, observari et augeri, intensis desideriis 
 affectamus, Ricardum Abbatem et Couventum pre- 
 fatos Ipsiusque ConventAs siBgulares personas, a 
 quibusvis excommunicationis, suspensionis et inter- 
 dict!, aliisque Ecclesiasticis sententiis, censnris et 
 penis & jure vel ab homine qu&vis occasione vel caus& 
 iatis, si quibus quomodolibet innodati existunt, ad 
 «lfectum presentiam dumtaxat consequendum harum 
 serie absolventes et absolutos fore censentes, hujus- 
 «iodi supplicationibus inclinati, ex certa nostrA 
 sciential, literas predietas ac omnia et singula in eis 
 oontenta, Auetoritate Apostolic^ tenore presencium 
 approbamus et innovamus ac perpetue firmitatis 
 robur obtinere et inviolabiliter observari debere vo- 
 lumus, Et nihilominus pro cautelA prefatum Monas- 
 terium eum Prioratu et aliis berieficiis et membris 
 bujusmodi ac Ricardum Abbatem, Conventum et 
 personas dicti Monasterii nunc et pro tempore ex- 
 istentes, cum eorum rebus et bonis omnibus mobilibus 
 «t immobillbusab omni jurisdietlone, dominio, potes- 
 tate, correctione, visitatione et superioritate quorum- 
 oumque Arciiiepiseoporum et aliorum Ordinariorum, 
 Jndicum, eorumque Officialium et Vicariorum nunc 
 et pro tempore existentium predictorum, sic tamen 
 qu6d Ricardus et pro tempore existens Abbas et 
 jConventus prefati Monasterii in signum recepte £i 
 RomanA EcclesiA libertatis etexemptionis hujusmodi, 
 dimidiam unciam auri, viz. XX. solidoslegalis-Monete 
 Anglie, dictis tribus aureis inclusis seu coinputatis, 
 dicte Camere Apostolice in festo prefato annis sin- 
 gulis persolvere omnino ieneantur, penitus et omnino 
 eximimus et totaliter liberamus ac sub Beati Petri et 
 Sedis hnjusmodi protectione suscipimus, illosque et 
 ilia nobis et Successoribus nostris necnon Sedi pre- 
 fatis, dumtaxat immediate subjioimus : ita quod Ar- 
 chiepiscopi, Episcopi Ordinarii, Judices, Vicariiet 
 
XXVI 
 
 Officiales predicti,quocuiTique nomine nuncupenttir, 
 conjunotitn vel dtvisim, in Monasterium, Prioratum, 
 Beneficia, Membia, Abbatem, Conventum et Personas, 
 at) Res et- Bona hujusmodi tanquam prorsus exempfos 
 «t exempta, etiam ratione delicti vel contractus aut 
 rei de quA ageretur, ubicumque committatuT deliotum., 
 ineatur contractus, aut res ipsa conslstat, nuliam in 
 COS vel ea jarisdictionem, dominium vel potestatem 
 quomodolibet exercere, aut exeommtrnicatiorris, sus- 
 pensionis et Interdieti, aliasque seotentias, censuras 
 et penas in eos promalgare possint; ised dumtaxat 
 ipse Abbas, Conventus, et Persone de se querelanti- 
 bus coram Sede prefatll aut Legatis vel Subdelegatis 
 «jusdem,de Justitii^ respondere teneantur; illosque 
 «t ilia exemptos et exempta, susceptos et suseepta., 
 ut prefertur, fore ac omnes et singulos processus, 
 necnon excommunicati«nis, suspensioriis et ioter- 
 dict), aliasque sententias, censuras et penas, quos 
 et quas, contra exemptionem, Ijberationem, subjec- 
 4ioiiem et presentas literas, in prejudicium exempto- 
 lum liujusmodi^ haberi, et promulgari, contigerit, 
 nulla, irrita et invalida, nuUiusque roboris vel mo- 
 menti existere Sicque per quoscumque Judices Ec- 
 clesiasticos et Seculares, Ordinarios, Delegatos et 
 Subdelegatos, eciam Sancte Romane Ecclesie Car- 
 dinales, eciam Legates. Nuncios, «t Causarum Palatii 
 Apostolici Auditores, in Romand duri^ et extra earn, 
 ac JH quAvis instantiA, sententiari, decidi, judicari et 
 interpretari deberi, sublatA eis et eorum cuilibet 
 qu&vis ali& sententiandi, decidendi, judicandi «t in- 
 terpretandi facultate, ac irritom et inane quicquid 
 secus super omnibus et singulis premissis A quoquam, 
 quAvis auctoritate, scieuter, vel ignoranter contigerit 
 attemptari, decernimus et declaramus, non obstante 
 pie memorie INNOCENTII Pape Quarti eciam Prede- 
 cessoris nostri circa exemptos que incipit. VOLEN- 
 TES etquibusvis aliis Apostolicis ac bone memorie Ot- 
 tonis et Ottoboni* olim in Regno Anglie dictae Sedis 
 Legatorum, necnon In Provinclalibuset Sinodalibus 
 
 The CoBstltutions of ^these Twb Legates may be seen io Bp . Lyndwood^s 
 Provincials. 
 
X'SVII 
 
 ConsHiis editis generalibns et special ibus Coiiytilulioni- 
 t»us et ordinationibus, ae Monasterii et Ordinis pre- 
 'dictorum, necnon Eeolesiarum Metropolitanarnm, 
 Episcopalium et atiarum, etiam juranienlo, confirma- 
 lione ApostoticA vel qu&vis firmitate alia roboralisi, 
 rstatutiseteonsuetudinlbasi, prtvilegiis qtK)que,indui(i« 
 «t Literis Apostolicis, Ordinariis et quibusvis aliis 
 concessis, ac per nos et Sedem predietano, confirm- 
 atisct innovatis, quibus eeiam, si de illis eorumque 
 totis tenoribus speeialis, speoifica, expressa, now 
 autemper clausiilas geaeralesid itnportautes, inentio 
 «eu alia expressio habenda foret et in eis 'caveretur 
 «xpresse quod illis uon nisi sub cerfis inibi expressis 
 inodls et tormi^s aut nullatenfis derogari possit, illo- 
 riim tenore, ac si de verbo ad verbum presentibus 
 5nsererentur, pro expressis habentes, iliis alias in suo 
 robore permansuris, hAc vice dumtaxatspeoialiteret 
 expresse derogamus ceterisque contrariis quibus- 
 cumque. VOLUMUS autem qu5d propter exe«npti- 
 onem et alia predicta, (aliis privilegiis, libertatibu!=, et 
 immamtatibus Monasterio et ill! us Abbati pro tem- 
 pore existent!, Conventui et Ordini prefatis concessis, 
 confirmatis, innovatisque, nihilominus in suis plenis 
 xobore et firmitate permanean<t; nullum prejudicium 
 ^eneretur, neque in Monasterii et Priorat6s predic- 
 torum, Parochialium Ecclesiarum Visitationibus et 
 Procurationibus, tarn earum que ratione Visitationis 
 predicte debentur, quam aliarum antiquarum et soli- 
 tarum procurationum, seu ali^s, absque Visltatione 
 •debitarum, uUatenCis derogetur. NULLI ergo omnino 
 ,<hominum liceat banc paginam nostre Absolutiouis, 
 ApprabaQonis, Innorationis, I'^xemptionis, Libera- 
 tionism Susceptionis, Subjectionis, Decreti, Declara- 
 tionis, Derogationis, et Voluntatis, infringere vel ei 
 .ausu temerario contralre. SI quis autem hoe attemptare 
 presumpserit, ipdignationem Omnipotentis Dei, et 
 Beatorum Petri et Pauli, Apostolorum ejus, se no- 
 verit ineursurum. DATUM Rome apud Sanctum 
 Petrum, Anno Incarnationis Dominice MBXVII. 
 XIV. Calend. Octobris, Pontificat(is nostri Anno 
 ^uiato. 
 
KXVIJi 
 
 (0 Referred lo from p 48, 
 
 Lileree Patenles Johannis Russell, Militis, 
 Domini Russell, pro Monasterio de Tave- 
 stoke, in Comiialu Devoniee.* 
 
 HENRICUS VIII. &e. Omnibus, &«. Sciatisqu5d 
 Nos, ob cartas causas et consideraciones nos specia- 
 liter moventes, ac in consideracione boni, verl et 
 acceptabilis servioii nobis per praedictum Consiliarium 
 nostrum, Johannem Russell, Militem, Baronieift 
 Russell, ali&s dictum Johannem Russell, Militem, 
 Uominum Russell, ant^ haec tempora facti et impensi, 
 de graci& nostrA speciali, ac ex certA scientiA et mero 
 motu nostris, dedimus et concessimns, ac per pree- 
 sentes, pro nobis, hseredib^s et successoribus nostris, 
 damus et concedimns eidem Johanni Russell, Militi, 
 Baroni Russell el Dominae Ann^p, Uxori ejus, totam 
 Domum et Soitum nuper Monasterii sive Abbathlae 
 et Ecclesise Beat«e Mari% Virginis et Sancti Rumonis 
 de Tavestoke, in comitatu nostro Devoniae, mod6 
 dissoluti, Et totam Ecclesiam, Campanile «t Cimi- 
 (<>rium ejusdem nuper Monasteril, Ac omnia messu- 
 ag;ia, dumos, «diiicia, grangias, orrea, stabula, co- 
 lumbaria, molendina, stagna, vivaria, oitos, po- 
 raaria, gardina, curtilagia, tenam et solum nostra, 
 tam infra quam extra scitum, septum, ambitum, 
 circuitum et precinetum ejusdem nuper Monasterii 
 existentes, Ac totum Burgum et Villam de Tavestoke 
 in pra^dicto comitatu Devonise, Et omnia Burgagia 
 nostra in Tavestoke, in Comitatu prsedicto, Et Ma- 
 neria nostra de Hurdewyk, Morwell, et Morwelham, 
 cum suis membrls et pertinenciis universis, in Comi- 
 tatu pr«edicto, Ac Hundredum nostrum deHurdewyke 
 aliis dictum Hundred de Tavestoke, in eodem Comi- 
 
 • E CoUectt. MSS. Joannis Jones, de Fianklyn, Arm, 
 
XXIX 
 
 t'atu, Ao Bartonas sive Granglas nostras de Hurde- 
 wyke, Morwell, et Morwelhara, cum suis fjerdnen- 
 elis ia Tavestoke; in cotttitatu priedicto, Ac Dominia 
 sive Maneria nostra de Milton Abbott alids dicfft 
 Milton Legh, Lamerton, Hele, Brentor, Wykedaver- 
 non, Peterstavy, Ottrew ali^s dicta, ©tterey, Whit- 
 church, et Newton, cum suis membrisei; pertinenciis 
 Htiiversis, in dictoComrtatu nostro Devoniaev dicto 
 miper Monasterio spectantia sive pertinentia, Ac 
 totam- Rectoriam^ et Vicariam" nostram de Tavestoke, 
 eum suis juribus et pertinenciis universis, in.dieto 
 €bmitatu nostro Devoniae; dicto nciper Monasterio 
 spectantem sive- pertinentent, Ac totam Rectoriami' 
 et Vicariam nostram de Tavestoke, cum suis 
 jaribus et pertinenciis nnixersis, iu dicto Comi- 
 tata nostra Devoni!»i dicto nuper Monasterio ap- 
 propriatam, ac spectantem seu pertrnentem, un&- 
 cum ommbus deeimis, oblacionibus, et proficuis qui- 
 buscuraque eisdem RcetoriBe- et Vicariae; seu eorum 
 alteri pertineotibus sive spectantibus^, Ac Advocaei- 
 onem, Donacionem^ liberam Disposicionem, et Jus 
 Patronatds Ecclesiis Parochialrs et Vicariaede Tave- 
 stoke, in dicto Comitatu nostro Devonise, Ac totum 
 Manerium nostrum' de Antony, cum- suis membris- 
 et pertinenciis universis, in Comitatu nostro Cornu.- 
 Bise, dieto nuper Monasterio speotans-sive pfertinens,^ 
 Ac omnia et singula messuagia,; terras, tenementa,, 
 grangias, bartonas, molendlna, tofta, cotagia>, gar- 
 dlna, pomaria, prata^ paseuas, pasturas, boscos,. 
 subboscos, mariscos, redditus,. reversiones,^ servicia, 
 annuitates, redditus, et firmas tenendum et firmari- 
 orum nostrorum, communias pastures', turbariae, ac 
 alias communias, piscarias, jampua, brueras, mineral 
 stanni et plumbi, acerta, vasta, moras, feoda militum, 
 escaetas, relevia, herietta, wardas, maritagia,- visns 
 &ancpHegii, curias letae, nundinas, marcata, tolneta^ 
 eatalla, "waviata, extrahuras, warenn.is, villa-nos et 
 natives cum eorum seqnelis,. wreccum maris, ae alia 
 hereditamenta nostra quwcunque cum pertinenciis, 
 in Tavestoke, Hurdwyke, Mylton Abbot alias dictji- 
 Milton Legh, Lamerton, Hole, Brentor, Wyke Da- 
 bernon, Peterstavie, Ottrew alisls dicta, Ottrey, Wyt- 
 ehurche, Morwell, Morwelham et Newton, in dicta- 
 
XXX 
 
 Comitatti nostio Devonise ao in Antony in dido Co^ 
 tiritafu nostro Corriubije, weu alibi ubicuinqnein eisdem^ 
 Comifatibns, sen in eorum altero, dictis manerii^, 
 grangiis, bartonts, reetorisa el vioariae, ferris, tene^ 
 meniisseu eorum alicui vel quoqno modo spectantia vet 
 pertfnenfia, aut quae ut membra vel paFcellae eorundem^ 
 maneriorum, bundredt, bartonar-um, grangiarum,. 
 rectoriEe et viearise, lerrarnm et tenementorum, seu 
 eorum alicujus habita,- eognita, capta, sive repufala 
 wxisluntaut ifuerunt, Ac omnia alia messuagia, terras, 
 tenementa, prata, pascua*," pasturas, boseos, redditus,. 
 revorsiones, servicia et beredifamenta nostra quse- 
 cnmque, cum pertineuciis, in Tavestoke praedicta, 
 diclo nuper Monasterio spectantes sive pertinentes, 
 Ade6 plene jet integre ac in tarn amplis modo et formft 
 prout Johannes, nuper Abbas dicli nuper Monas- 
 Jprii, aut aliquis predecessorum suorum, Abbatum 
 pjusdem nuper Monasterii, in jure nuper Monasterii- 
 illins, aliquo tempore ante dissoljicienem ejusdem 
 nuper Monasterii, omnia et singula preemissa superitis 
 specificata, cum suis pertinentiis, vel aliquam inde 
 parceliam, habuerunt, tenuerun-tr vel- gavisi, fiierunt, 
 liabuit, tenuit, vel gavisus fuit, seui haberei- tenere,- 
 vel gaudere debuerunt aut d-ebuit, et ade6 plene et 
 integrei ae in tam amplis modo et formei,. ppout ea- 
 omnia et singula praemissa ad manus nostras,, ratibne 
 et prelextu dissolucionis dicti nuper Monasterii, vel 
 ratione et prelextu alicujus ActAs Parliamenti, vel' 
 aliter, aut aliquo alio modo, devenerunt, seu devenire 
 debuerunt, ac in manibus nostris jam existunt, seu 
 exislere debent vel deberent. DAMUS eciam, et pro 
 eonsideracione prsedictS. per presentes concedimus,. 
 praefato Johanni Russell, Militi, Baroni Russell, totun> 
 Rurgum nostrum de Denbury, ac omnia Maneria de' 
 Denbury, Plympstok, Woryngton, Cowyke, Bar- 
 leigh, Olderich, Cavelynohe, Whymple, Woodman - 
 sten, Cristenstowe,.-Boryngton et Cornewood, cum- 
 suis juribus, membris et pertinenciis universis, in 
 diclo Comilatu nostro Devoniee, dieto nuper Monas- 
 terio spectantia sive pertinentia, Ac Manerium- nos-- 
 trum de Hawkewell, cum suis juribus, membris et 
 pertinenciis universis, in Comilatu nostro Somersetae,^ 
 diclo nuper Monasterio spectans sive pertiniins, Aai- 
 
omnia messuagia, terras, tenemen<a, gfangias, bar- 
 tbnas, molendina, tofta, eotagia, gardina, prata, pas- 
 cuas, pasturas, boscos, snbboscos, mariscos, re<)di- 
 tus, reversiones, annuitates, servicfa ac reddilus, et 
 firmas , tenendum et firmariorum nostrorum, com- 
 munfas pasturae, turbaria; et piscariae, ao alias coin- 
 munias quascumque, mineras stanni et pFunfrbi, ac 
 pareos, warenas, acerta, vasta, moras, feoda inili- 
 t\im, escaetas, relfevia, herietta, curias letae, visus- 
 ffanci pliegii, villanos et nrativos cum eorum seqnelis,, 
 nundihas,, marcata, tolneta, catalta, waviata, extra- 
 huras, catalla ffelonum et fugitivorum, utiagatorum, 
 attinctorum, et felbnum de se, ac d'eodanda,. wreccum 
 maris,, ac omnia alia haereditamenta nostra queecum- 
 que, cum perttheneiis, fn Dfenbury, Piymstoke, Wor- 
 ington, Cowyke, Exwyke, Barleigh, OldJerigei Ca- 
 velynohe, Whymple, Wodmanston, Cristenstowe, 
 Boryngton, et Cornewode, ac in Parochi^ Thome 
 Bekket, quondam vulgariter nuncupate Saynt 
 Thomas Parisshe extra Portam Occidentalem- Civi- 
 t'atis Exonlee, in dicto Conritatu nostra Uevoniae- ac in 
 Hawkewell in dicto Comitatn nostro .Sdmersetse, quae 
 dicto nuper. Monasterio, sive prwdictis maneriis, quo- 
 quo modo spedtabant sive pertinebant, aded plene 
 et integrfe ac in tarn ampiis modo et forma, prout dic- 
 tus nuper Abbas dieti nuper Monasterii, aut aliquis 
 predecessorum suorum, Abbatum ejusdem nuper 
 Monasterii, in jure nuper Monasterii illius, alfquo 
 tfempore ante dissoliicionem ejusdem nuper Monas- 
 terii, prsedicta maneria, terras, tenementa, et osetera 
 prsmissa cum pertineuciis, vel aliqtiam inde parcel- 
 lam habaerunt, tenuerunt, vel gavisi fuerunt, Habuit, 
 tenuit, velgavisus fuit, sen habere, tetiere, vel gau- 
 dere debuerunt, seu debuit, et ade6 plen^ et integre 
 ac in tam ampiis modo et form^, proot ea omnia et 
 singula ad manus nostras, ratione et pretextu disso- 
 lucionis drcti nuper Monasterii, aui ratfone vel pre- 
 textu alicujus ActAs Parliamenti, seu aliter vel alio- 
 modo quocumque, devenerunt seu devenire debuerunt 
 ac in manibus nostris jam existunt, seu existere 
 debent. DAMUS eciam, et pro consideraeione prse- 
 dicta, per pra?sentes concedimus prsefato Jobanni 
 Russell, Militi, Baroni Russell, Advocaciones Rec- 
 
xxxii 
 
 foiiarum appropriatarum et non appropriafarunr^ 
 dccimaa, oblaciones, obvenciones, porciones, pen- 
 siones, annuitates, etalia proficaaetemolumenla ec- 
 clesiarum parochialinm de Whitchurch, Lamerton, 
 Milton Abbot aliAs dicta Milton Legh, etBoryngton, 
 ac CapellsE de Olderige, et Rectorias Ecclesiae Paro- 
 chialis dudfini v.nlgariter nuncupatae Saynt Thomas 
 Parysshe extra Portam Occidentalem CivHatiff Ex- 
 onijp, Et Ecclesiarum Parochialium de Cristeaistbwe, 
 Okehampton, et Sprayton, in dicto Comitata- Bostro 
 DevoniBB, Et Ecclesiarum Parochialium de Antony, 
 et Peterwyn ali^s dicta Northepetherwyn, in dicto 
 Comitatu nostro CornubiiP, quae dicto nuper Monas- 
 terio de Tavestoke appropriatae, unitse slve annexee 
 fueruDt, Ac eciam Rectorias appropriatas, VicarlaSy 
 decimas, oblisiciones, obvenciones, porciones, pen- 
 aiones et annuitates, et omnia alia proficua et emolu- 
 mcnta Ecclesiarum Parochialium de Old Donkyswelt 
 et Aulescombe, et Liberse Capelfe ibidem, in dicto 
 Comitatu Devonie, quae dudCim Monasterio de 
 Donkyswell, in dicto Comitatu Devonise, nuper dis- 
 soluto, appropriatae, unitae sive annexse fnerunt, Ac 
 eciam Rectoriam' appropriatam et non appropriatam,: 
 decimas, oblaciones, obvenciones, porciones, pen- 
 siones, annuitates, et omnia alia proficua et emolu- 
 menta Ecclesix Parochialis de Blkkaveton, in dicto 
 Comitatu nostro DevonisE, quaj dudtim Monasterio de 
 Plymptonin eodem Comitatu, modo dissoluto, appro- 
 priata, uuita, sive annexa fuit, Necnon Advoca- 
 ciones, Donaciones, Presentaciones, Liberas Disposi- 
 ciones et Jura PatronatCls Vicariarum Ecclesiarum 
 Parochialium de Lamerton, Mylton Abbot alias dictSi 
 Milton Legh, Whitechurche, P'eterstavy, Okehamp- 
 ton, Sprayton, Crystenstowe, Blakeaveton, Boryng- 
 ton, Woryngton, Olde Donkyswell, Aulescombe, et 
 CapeliiE ibidem, et Ecclesiae Parochialis quondam vuN 
 gariter nuncupatae Saynt Thomas Churche extra 
 Portam Occidentalem Civitatis Exoniae, et Capellaa de 
 Olderidge, et Rectoriae et Ecclesiarum Parochialium 
 de Virgenstowe, Denbury et Whymple, in dicto 
 Comilatii nostro Devoniae, et Vicariarum Ecclesiarum 
 Parochialium de Antony et Pederwyn, ali&s dicta. 
 Northpederwyn, iu dicto Gomitatu nostro Cornubiae 
 
Xxxiii 
 
 INSUPER, ex uberiori gratia nostrSl speciali, ae ex 
 cert& scienlia^et mero motu nostris, Damus, et pro 
 Conslderacione praedictS, per prasentes, pro nobis 
 Ha?redibus et Successoribas tiostris, Concedimus 
 prsfato Johanni Russell, Militi, Baroui Russell, 
 totam Domum et Seilum nuper Monasterli sive Ab- 
 bathiae Beatie Mariae Virginis de Dnnkyswell, in diolo 
 Comitatu nostro Devonise, modo dissoluti, Ac totam 
 Ecolesiam, Campanile et Cimiterium ejusdem nuper 
 Monasterii, Ae omnia Messuagia, domos, edifioia, 
 grangias, orrea, stabula, columbaria, stagna, vivaria, 
 ortos, pomaria, gardina, terram et solum nostram, 
 tam infra quam extra scitum, septum, ambitum, 
 circuitum et precinctum ejusdem nuper Monasterii 
 de Donkyswell existentes, Ac Molendinum nostrum 
 aquaticum, duo Gardina et quatuor Curtilagia, cum 
 pertinenciis In Olde Donkyswell, in dicto Comitatu 
 nostro Devoniae, quae dicto nuper Monasterio de 
 Dunkyswell spectabant sive pertinebant, Necnon 
 alia quatuor Clausa Terras arabilis nostra, vocata 
 Beyn Crofts, , Et unum Clausnm Terrae.arabilis nos- 
 trum, vocatum Yeoman Leysse, Et unum aliud 
 Clausum Terrse arabilis, vocatum Debere Crqfte, cum 
 pertinentils, continentia in toto per estimacionem 
 Septemdecim aeras in Dunkyswell, prsedicto nuper 
 Monasterio de Donkyswell spectantia sive pertinen- 
 tia, Ac omnia alia Prata nostra vocata Brytport 
 Medowe, Culverheyball, Leyrehouse Mede, Mylbale 
 Mede, Churche Haye Mede, Swyne Mede, Synr 
 Mede, et Polemede, continentia in toto per estimaci- 
 onem viginti quatuor acras, in Olde Donkyswell, 
 prsidicto nuper Monasterio de Donkyswell prsBdictA 
 siraili modo spectantia sive pertinentia, Ac omnes 
 Boscos Eostros vocatos Aygewede, Myddelwall, Olde 
 Parke et Rugewood, cum pertinenciis, continentes 
 in toto per estimacionem quadringentas acras bosci, 
 in Olde Donkyswell prsedictA, dicto nuper Monas- 
 terio de Donkyswell spectantes sive pertinentes, 
 Necnon totam illam Grangiam sive Bartonam nos- 
 tram, vocatam Bowreheys, cum pertinenciis, in Olde 
 Donkyswell praedict&j Ac unum Tenementum, cum 
 pertinenciis, vocatum Bowreheys, Ac omnia alia 
 Clausa Terrae arabilis nostra, vocata Sfonyfeld, 
 
xxxir 
 
 Barnyslonde, Crosfeld, Boroughfeld, Parkefelde, 
 Smythefeld, Furfelde, Roodfelde, Penfeld, Newfeld, 
 Leez, Hegher Maresses Leez, Lovrer Maresses, Le- 
 Redder, Le Mydte Steynt Wood, Le Norther Steynt- 
 wood, Trotosdowne, et Shipfeld, cum perfinenciis, 
 eontinentia per estimacionetn CCCLXII acras, pt 
 unum Pratum, vocatum Steyntwode Made, continens 
 in se per estimacionem III acras prati, Ac omnia alia 
 Terras, Jampnaet Brueras nostra, vocata Ruffegrey- 
 downe et Westdowne, eum pertinentiis, eontinentia 
 per estimacionem IIIl acras in Olde Dnnkyswell 
 praedictA, dicto nuper Monasterio de Dunkyswell 
 simili modo spectantia slye pertinentia, Necnon 
 totam illam Granglani et Bartonam nostram de By- 
 wood, cum pertinenclls, in Olde Donkyswell prae- 
 dicta, Ac unum Tenementum, cum pertiuenciis ac 
 omnia ilia Clausa Terra; arabilis nostra, vocata Cade- 
 feld, Le Dovvne Lands aliSs dictum The Newe Fel- 
 dys, Fforche Felde, Le Inner Fforche Felde, BarnS' 
 lond, Churchelond, Stonyfeld, Oxen Leez, et Le 
 Grotten, cum pertinenciis, eontinentia in loto per 
 estimacionem ducentas viginti et quatuor acras, Et 
 unum Pratum nostrum, vocatum Byfv'ood Mede, cum 
 pertinenciis, continens per estimacionem quatuor 
 acras, Ac omnia Clausa Morse nostra, cum pertinen- 
 tiis, vocata By wood More et Sbotte More, eontinen- 
 tia in toto per estimacionem XXX acras, in Olde 
 DonkysweU praedictA, dicto nuper Monasterio de 
 Donkyswell similr modo spectantia sive pertinentia, 
 Necnon totam illam Grangiani et Bartonam nostram 
 de Sheldon in Olde Donkyswell et Sheldon, in dicto 
 Comitatu nostro Devoniae, Ac unum Tenementum, 
 ac omnia ilia Clausa Terrsc arabilis nostra, vocata. 
 Hobyd Ryse Ffurshyll, LytelL Beer Hyll, Great Beer 
 Hill, Lez Fernae et Le Gardyne Mede, cum perti- 
 nenciis, eontinentia in toto per estimacionem dijcem 
 acras et dimidium, Et unam Moram, vocatam Le 
 Northmore, cum pertinenciis, continentem per estima- 
 cionem duodeeim acras in Olde Dunkyswell et Shel- 
 don prsedictis, Ac unam aliam Moram, cum pertinen- 
 ciis, continsntem per estimacionem Xll acras in Old© 
 Donkyswell praedict^, dicto nuper Monasterio de 
 Donkyswell simili modo spectantem et pertinentem^ 
 
xxxr 
 
 Ac etiam tofam illam Graugiam et Bartonam nostratn 
 de Bradhemby, cum pertinenciis, in Brodehemby in 
 dicto Comitatu nostro Devoniae, Ac ununa Tenemen- 
 tum et omnia ilia Clausa Terrse arabilis nostra, vocata 
 Clampitt, Cresfeld, Oxenheye, Metlande, Le Great 
 Rowden, Les Litle Rowdens, Lodpytt, Whithyll, 
 Oxenlez, cum pertinenciis, continentia in«toto per 
 estimacionem ducentas nonaginta et octo acras Terras, 
 Et omnia ilia II Pi'ata nostra, vocata Le Great Mede 
 ali4s dicta The Graunge Mede et Lodpytt Mede, 
 continentia in toto per estimacionem XXV acras, Et 
 unam Moram nostram, vocatam Le Roughe Mersli^, 
 cum pertinenciis, continentem per estimacionem X 
 acras, Et omnes illos Boscos nostrts, vocatos Le 
 Parke alias dictos Le Grangewode et Le Grove cum 
 pertinenciis, continentes per estimacionem XIII 
 acras in Brodehemby praedicta, dicto nuper Monas- 
 terio de Donkyswell spectantes et pertinentes, Ac 
 omnia ilia III Clausa arabilia nostra, vocata Shap- 
 combe felde, cum pertinenciis, continentia per esti- 
 macionem C acras Terrae, Et totum lUod Prafnm 
 nostrum vocatum Shapcombe Mede, cum pertinen- 
 ciis, continens per estimacionem viginti et quatuor 
 acras, Et totum iilud Boscum nostrum, vocatum 
 Shapcomb Wood, cum pertinenciis, continentem per 
 estimacionem viginti acras jacentem et existentem in 
 Parochia de Luppyt in dicto Comitatu nostra De- 
 voniae, dicto nuper Monasterio de Donkyswell simili 
 modo spectantem sive pertinentem, Ac omnia. et sin- 
 gula Messuagia, terras, tenementa, prata, pascuas, 
 pasturas, boscos, subboscos, redditus, reversiones, 
 communias pasturae, turbariae et esioveriorum, ser- 
 vieia, firmas tenencium et firmariorum, jampnum, 
 bruerasy vasta, moras, ac omnia alia haereditamenta, 
 proficua, commoditates, jura et posseasiones quae- 
 cumque, cum suis pertinenciis, situata, jacentia et 
 existentia in Donkyswell, Olde Donkyswell, Brode- 
 hemby, Luppyt et Sheldon, praedictis, quae dictis 
 Bartonis et Grangiis de Bowreheys, Bywoode, Shel- 
 don et Brodehemby, sive earum alicui spectant vel 
 pertinent, aut pro parcellis earundem Bartonarum et 
 Grangiarum sive earum alicujus habita, cognita, sive 
 reputata sunt vel existunt aut fuernnt, ade6 plene et 
 
XXXVI 
 
 integre, et prout ultimus Abbas dicii nuper Monas- 
 terii de Dunkyswell, aut atiqnis, predeeessorum 
 suorum Abbalum ejusdem naper Monasterii, in jure 
 ejusdem nuper Monasterii, dictum scitum dicti nuper 
 Monasterii de Donkyswell, ac praedietas grangias^ 
 terras, tenementa, boscos et caetera pramissa, cuni 
 pertinenciis in Donkyswell, Olde Donkyswell, Bro- 
 dehemby, Luppyt et Slieldon prsedietis, velaiiquam 
 inde parceilam liabuerunt, tenuerunt vel gavisi fue- 
 rnut,. babuit, tenuit, vel gavisus fuit, seu habere,- 
 tenere vel gaudere debuerunt vel debuit, ac aded,. 
 pleae et.iategr.e, ac in tam amplis modo et forma 
 prout ea omnia et singula ad manus nostras rationeef 
 pretextu cujusquidEuaoi cartae dcnacionis, concessionis,- 
 reddicionis et confirnjacionis diet? nuper Abbatis et 
 ConventAs ejusdem nuper Monasterii de Donkys- 
 well nobis factaa, aut ratione alicujiis Actios Parlia- 
 ments noper devener.unt seu devenlre debuerunt,' ac 
 in n^anibus nostris jam existunt, seu existere dfebent 
 seu deberent. INSUPEK, ex uberibri gratiS. nostril 
 speciali, ac ex cert^ sciencid et mero motu nostris, 
 damus ulteritis, et pro consideratione praedictS., con- 
 cedimus prsefato Johanili Russell, Militi, Baroni 
 Russell, totum Manerium nostrum de Blakeareton 
 cum suis membffs et pertinenciis universis, in dicto 
 Comitatii nostro Devoniaa, nuper Monasterio sive 
 Abbati«e Sancti Salvatoris de Torre in eod'em Comi- 
 tatn nostro Devoniae mod5 dissolute speclans sive 
 pertinens, Neenon omnia messuagia, terras, tene- 
 menta, ptata, pascaas, pastaras, boscos, subboscos^ 
 communiaspasturse, aquas, aqaarum cursus, stagna, . 
 vivaria, molendina, gardiiia, pomaria, eotagia, tofta, 
 grangias, bartonas, terras dominicales, terras man- 
 scales, mariscos,. liberos reddftus, reversiones, .ser- 
 vieia, parcos, chaceas, warennas, acerla, vasta,. 
 jampna, et brueras, moras, aniruitates, firraas tenen- 
 cium et firmariorum, feodi fiimas, communias pas- 
 turee etliberas piscarias, liberas faldas, mineras stannfc 
 et plambi, redditas saper quibuscumque dimissionibas 
 reservatos, feoda. militam, curise profiouas, carias 
 letarum, visas franeplegii, et omnia c[uas ad maritagia, 
 ac omnia alia jura, jarisdictiones, commoditates, 
 possessiones et haereditamenta nostra qusecamqjue 
 
xxxvu 
 
 'cnm perlinenciis, in Blakeavelon et alibi in dicto 
 -Comitatu uostro Devoniae, dieto Manerio de Blake- 
 aveton quoquo modo spectantia vel pertimentia, aut 
 quse nt membra vel parcella ejusdem Manerii habita 
 sive reputata existunt aut fu^runt, aded plene et' In- 
 tegra, ac in tarn amplis modo et forma, prout Simon, 
 nupei Abbas dicti nuper Monasterii de Torre, et ali- 
 quis predecessorum quorum Abbatum ejusdem nuper 
 Monasterii de Torre, in jure nuper Monasterii illius, 
 aliquo in tempore ante dissoliltjionem ejusdem nuper 
 Monasterii prsedicti Manerium de Blakeaveton ba- 
 buernnt, tenuerunt vel ravisi fuerunt, habuit, tenuit 
 vel gavisus fuit, seu habere, tenere~ vel gaudere de- 
 buerunt vel debuit, addo plene et integre, ac in tam 
 amplis modo et "forma, prout ea omnia et singula ad 
 manus nostras, ralSone et pretextu cujusdam CartE 
 doaaciouis, concessionis teddissionis et confirma- 
 -cionis dicti nuper Abbatis et ConventAs ejusdem 
 'nuper Monasterii de Torre nobis faetae, seu ratione 
 'vel pretextu alleujus Actfis Parliamenti, nuper de- 
 venere seu devenire debuerunt, etinmanibus nostris 
 jam existunt si¥« existere deberent. INSUPER, de 
 'uberiorlgratia nostHi «peciali, ae ex eert^ scientii et 
 mero motu nostris, damus et coneedimus, et pro 
 consideracione prsedicti, per presentes pro nobis, 
 •Haeredibus et Suecessoribus nostris, coneedimus prae- 
 fato Joharini Russell, Militi, Baroni Russell, totam 
 •Domum et Scitum nuper Fratrum Praedicatorunuiufra 
 '€ivitatem Exoniae, modo dissolutam, Ac totam Ee- 
 clesiam, Campanile et Cimiterium ejusdem DomAs 
 •nuper Fratrum Praedicatorum, Ac omnia messuagia, 
 domus, edificia, orrea, stabula.icoluiribaria, molen- 
 -dina, stagna, ortos, pomaria, gardina, curtilagia, 
 terram et solum nostra, tarn 4Bfra, juxta et prope 
 ■scitum, septum, ambitum, eircuitum et precinctum 
 lejusdem Domttsiinper Fralrum Praedicatorum prae- 
 aietae Bxistentia, ade5 plene et Integra, ac in tam 
 amplis modo et "forma, prout ultimus, Prior dictic 
 Domfts nuper Fratrum Praedicatorum prsdictorum 
 aut aliquis praedecessorum suorum Priorum ejusdem 
 Duper Dom<!ls, in jure nuper DomAs illius aliquo 
 tempore ante dissolacionem ejusdem Domils nuper 
 Trafrum Prdieatorum ilia habuerunt, tenuerunt vel 
 
XXXVIII 
 
 gavisi fueinnt, habuit, tenuit vel gavlsus fuif, seu 
 habere, tenere vel gaudere debuerunt vel debuit, 
 Habendum, tenendum et gaudendum prtedictum 
 Domum et Scitum dicti nuper Monasterii de T^vistok, 
 Ac prsedictnm Burgum et Villam de Tavistoke, Et 
 omnia Burgagia nostra in Tavistoke prsedicta, Et 
 Hundredum de Hurdewike ali&s dictum Hnndredum 
 de Tavistok, Ac praaiiota Manerta nostra de Hurde- 
 wike, Morewell et Morwelham, Milton Abbot alias 
 dicta Milton Legh, Lamerton, Hole, Brentor, Wyke- 
 dabernon, Peterstavy, Ottrewe alias Ottrey, Whit- 
 churche et Newton, Ac praitElotas Grangias et Barto- 
 nas de Hurdewyke, Morwellet Morwelham, Ac pras- 
 dictum Maoerium de Antony, Neenon Rectoriam et 
 Vicariam de Tavystoke, Et Advocationem Vicariae Ec- 
 clesise de Tavystoke, Et castera omnia et singula prs- 
 missa in Tavystok, Hurdewyke, Milton aliAs dict& Mil- 
 ton Leigh, Lamerton, Hole, Brentor, Wikedabernon, 
 Peterstavy, Ottrewe alias dictA Ottrie, WhitehuFche, 
 Morewell, Morwelham, Newton et Antony prasdicta, 
 praefato Johanni Russell, Militi, Baroni Russell et 
 Dominae Annse Uxpri ejus et HsEredibus Masculis de 
 Corpore ipsius Johannia Russell, MilHis, Baronis 
 Russell, legitime prpcreatis, TENENDUM de nobis 
 Haeredibus el Successotibus nostris In Capite, per 
 Servicium Unius Feodi Militi?, Ac Reddendo inde 
 annuatim, nobis Haeredibus et Successoribus nostris 
 XXXVI Libras ad Curiam nostram Augmentacionum 
 Revencionum Coronae nostra, ad Festum Sancli 
 Michaelis Archangeli, singulis annis Solvendas pro 
 omnibus Redditibus, Serviciis et Demandis quibus- 
 cumque proindc nobis HaBredibus vel Successoribus 
 nostrjs, quoquo modo, reddendis, solvendis vel faci- 
 endis, Et absque compoto seu aliquo alio proinde, 
 nobis Haeredibus et Successoribus nostris, praeter 
 redditus et servicia praedictos nobis reservatos, quo- 
 vismodo reddendo solvendo seu faciendo, AC HA- 
 BENDUM, tenendum et gaudendum praedictum Bur- 
 gum de Denbury, Ac prsedicta Maneria de Denburi, 
 Plymstoke, Worington, Cowike, Exwike, Barleigh, 
 Olderidge, Cavelinche, Whymple, Woodmanston, 
 Cristynstowe, Borington, Cornewood, Hawkewell et 
 Blakeaveton, Ac dictas Rectorias Ecclesiarum de 
 
icxXix 
 
 Whitechurche, Lamerton, Mylton Abbot alias dicta 
 Mylfon Leigh et Borington, Ac dictam Capel- 
 1am de Olderige, Et dietam Reeloriam Ecclesia: 
 Parochialis dudum vulgariter nuneupalam Saynt 
 Thomas Churche extra Portam Oecidentalem Civi- 
 tatis Exoniae, EtprEedictas Reetorias Ecclesiarum de 
 Cristenstowe, Okehampton, Sprayton, Antony et 
 Petherwyn alias dinta North Petherwyn, Ao eciam 
 ^ictas Reetorias de 01de Donkyswellet Awlescombe, 
 ac Capellam ibidem, Ac dictam Rectoriam de Blake- 
 aveton,- Nec'non prasdictas Advoeaciones, Dona- 
 ciones et Jura Patronatuum Ecclesiarum Parochi- 
 alium de Lamerton, Milton Abbot alias dicta Mil- 
 ton Leigh, Whitchurche, Peterstavy, Okehampton, 
 Sprayton, Cristenstowe, Blaekaveton, Borington, 
 Worington, Olde Donkeswell, Aulescombe et Ca- 
 pellse ibidem, Ac dictaj Ecclesias ParochiaUs extra 
 Portam Oecidentalem Civitatis Exoniaa., Et dictae Ca- 
 pellfe de Olderige, Et praedietas Advocaeiones Ree- 
 toriarum Vicariarum Ecclesiarum de Virgenstowe, 
 Denbury, Whimple, Antony et Petherwyn aliAs dicta 
 NorthpetheiMivyn, Ac praedictam Domum et Scitum 
 dicti nuper Mo~aasterii de Dunkeswell, Ac pradictum 
 Domum et Scitum dietorum riuper Fratrum Prsedica- 
 torum', Ac omnia et singula prsedieta Bartonas, Gran- 
 gias. Terras, Tenemerita, ac omnia et singula pr»- 
 missa cum pertineneiis in Denbury, Plympstoke, 
 Worington, Covvike, Exwike, Barleigh, Olderige, 
 "Whymple et Cavelinche, Woodmanston, Cristen- 
 stowe, Boryngton, Cornewoode, Hawkwell et Blake- 
 aveton, Okehampton, Sprayton, Donkeswell, Olde 
 Dunkeswell, Awlescombe, Sheldon, Brodehemby et 
 Luppytt pra?dictis, praefato Johanni Russell, Militi, 
 Baroni Russell et Hasredibns Masculis de Corpore suo 
 legitime prqpreatis, TENENDUM de nobis, Haeredi- 
 bus et Successoribus nostris In Capite, per Servicium 
 Unius Feodi Militis, Ac Reddendo inde annuatim, 
 nobis Hjeredibus et Successoribus nostris, CCXLVIII 
 Libras V Solid os ad dictam Curiam nostram Augmen- 
 taeionum Revencionum Coronas nostras, ad dictum 
 Festiim Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, singulis annis 
 Solvendos pro omnibus redditibus, serviclis et de- 
 mandis quibuscumque proinde nobis Hseredibus et 
 
xl 
 
 SocGessoribus nostris quoquo modo reddendis, sol- 
 vendis vel faoiendis, Et absque compoto $eu aliqiio 
 alio proinde, nobis HEeredibus vel Suecessoribus nos- 
 tris, prscter redditus etservicia prsedictos nobis reser- 
 vatos quovismodo reddendo, solvendo vel faciendo. 
 ET ULTERIUS, de uberiori gratia nostra ac ex 
 certa scienciS. et mere motu nostris, et pro consider- 
 acitine praedictfi, Damns et per prscsentes concedimus 
 praefato Johanni Russell, Militi, Baroni Russell, 
 Omnia et omnimoda Exilus, Redditus, Revenciones 
 et Profieua prsedictorura Scituum dictorum nuper 
 Monasteriorum de Tavistoke, Donkeswell et prsedie- 
 torum DomAs et ScitAs nuper Fratrum Praedieatorum 
 prxdictorum, Maneriorum, Grangiarum, Rectoriarum 
 et caeterorum omnium et sjngulorum prsmissorum 
 superiCis expressorum et specificatorum, cum per- 
 tinenciis, k Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeii Anno 
 regni nostri XXXo. hucusque provenientia sive cres- 
 centia. HABENDUM eidem Johanni Russell, Mi- 
 liti, Baroni Russell, ex dono nostro, absque com- 
 poto, seu aliquo alio proinde nobis Hseredibus et Sue- 
 cessoribus nostris quoquo modo reddendo, solvendo 
 vel faciendo. ET ULTERIUS, de ampliori gratia 
 nostra speciali, ac ex ceitk scienciA et mero motu 
 nostris, et pro consideracione prsedictA, Volumus, et 
 per prassentes pro nobis Heeredibus et Suecessoribus 
 nostris, Damns et concedimus prsefato Johanni Rus- 
 sell, Militi, Baroni Russell, et Haeredibus Masculis 
 de Corpore dicti Johannis Russell, Militis, et Ba- 
 ronis Rnssell, legitime procreatis, Qu6d idem Jo- 
 hannes Russell, Miles, Bare Russell, et Hxredes siii 
 prajdicti, imperpetuum de tempore in tempus, an- 
 nuatini habebunt, tenebunt et gaudebunt, ac habere 
 tenere, gaudere valeant et possint, ad libitum suum, 
 infra prasdicla maneria, hundreda, bnrgagia, et bar- 
 to.nas, ac omnia et singula alia prsemissa superiils 
 expressa et specificata, tot, tanta, talia, hujusmodi 
 et consimilia curias lefag, visus franciplegii, de omni- 
 bus et singulis tenentibus suis, tam residentibus quam 
 non residentibus, et aliis quibuscumque ibidem resi- 
 dentibus, Ac omne id quod letam et visum franciple- 
 gii, assisam, assaiam panis et cerevisiae, bona et 
 catalla waviata, extrahuras ibidem conting-entes, bona 
 
xli 
 
 «t catalla felon im et fugitivorum, ullagatorum, at- 
 tinctorum, felonum de se, deodanda et In exigeido 
 posita, wreccum mariSj liberas piscarias, liberas wa- 
 Tennas, cum omnibus et singulis prasdictis maneiiis 
 et in qu&libet eorum parcellS, ao commiciones placi- 
 torum realium, personalium, mixtarum, et querela- 
 rum, in omnibus curiis nostris^ et tenere omnimoda 
 placita^et querelas infra Burgum nostrum de Tavi- 
 £toke emergentia coram seneschallo et ballivis ipsius 
 Johannis Russell et H^redum suorum prsedictorum, 
 Ac fines etamerciamenta tenendum smorum, scilicet, 
 infangthief, outfangthief, retorna breviuna, et execu- 
 ciones eorundem, Necnon omnia et omnimoda, tot, 
 tauta, talia, hujusmodi et consimilla alia libertates, 
 franchesia, jura, jurisdictjones, privllegia, exemp- 
 ciones, commoditates, profieua, emolumenta quse- 
 cumque, in omnibus et singulis prsedictis maneriis et 
 cseteris praemlssis, ae in quSlibet inde parcels, quot, 
 quanta, qualla, quae, in eisdem et eonsimilibis modo 
 «t form^, ade6 plene et integr^, ac in 'tarn amplis 
 modo et formtl, pr6ut dicti nuper Abbates dictorum 
 nuper Monasteriorum, aut eorum alicnj us, velaliquis 
 praedeeessorum suorum, Abbahim eorundem nuper 
 Monasteriorum, vel eorum alicujus, kn jure nuper 
 Monasteriorum illorum, sjve eorum alicujus, aliquo 
 tempore aate separates dissoluciones dictorum nuper 
 Monasteriflrumj sive eorum alicujus, separaliter ha- 
 buerunt, tenuenint vel gavisi fuerunt, habuit, tenuit, 
 vel gavisus fuit, seu habere, tenere vel gaudere de - 
 buerunt aut debuit, in maneriis prasdictis et casteris 
 praemissis, vel in aliquS. inde parcellS., racione et pr^- 
 textu alicujus donacionis, coneessionis vel confirma- 
 «ionisi, per nos seu aliquem progenitorum nostrorum 
 Regum Anglis, prqefatas nuper Abbatibus seu eorum 
 alioui seu aliquibus eorum predeoessorum, quoquo 
 modo factsB, vel ratione vel pretextu alicujus usAs, 
 consuetudinis sive prxscriptionis, seu aliter quo- 
 cumque modo, HABENDtFM, levandum, percipi- 
 endum et gaudendum curias letse et visus franciplegii 
 illas, et omne id quod ad letam et visum franciplegii 
 pertinent, Necnon eadem bona et catalla waviata, 
 bona et catalla felonum et fugitivorum, extrahuras, 
 warennas et cstera praemissa superids specificata. 
 
cum •mnibus et singulis suis pertinenriii!, prajfafo 
 Joiianni Russell, Militi, Baroui Russell et Hajredibus 
 Masculis de Corpora suo legitime proereatis imper- 
 petuum, absque compotp seu aliquo alio proinde 
 nobis Hasredibus vel Successoribus nostB-is reddendo, 
 solrendo vel faciendo. ET- ULTERIUS, volumus, et 
 per prsesentes concedimos prsefato Johanni Russell, 
 Militi, Baroni Russell, et diets Annas Uxorl ejus et 
 Hffiredibus Masculis de Corpore ipsius Johannis legi- 
 time proereatis, qu6d nos Hasredes et Successores 
 nostri, dictos Johannem Russell, Militem, et Baro- 
 nem Russell, et Dominam Annam, Uxorem ejus, ac 
 Hasredes Masculos de Corpore ipsius Johannis Rus- 
 sell legitime proereatis, de omnibus et omnimodis 
 arreragiis et respectibus reddituum, ac annuitatibus 
 et corrodiis, ac redditibus omnibus, de nianeriis, 
 grangiis et rectoriis prasdietis, ac de omnibus et sin- 
 gulis caeteris prasmissis superida specifieatis, cum per- 
 tinencHs, seu eorum aliquo exeuntibus seu solvendis, 
 vel super eisdem seu eorum aliquo oneratis vel one- 
 randis, Praeterquam de serviciis et redditibus, su- 
 perids per prssentes nobis reservatis, Et prasterquam 
 de redditibus, seivicids et redditibus siccis et aliis 
 serviciis quibuscumque personam seu quascumque 
 personas, de tempore in tempus, exonerabimus, 
 acquietabimus et defendemus per praesentes, MAN- 
 DAN TES enim, et firmiler injungendo prascipi- 
 entes,, tam Cancellario et Consilio nostro Curia; 
 nostras Augmentacionum Revencionum CorOnae nos- 
 tras, pro tempore existente, quiim omnibus Recep- 
 toribus, Auditoribus «t casteris officiariis etmlnistris 
 nostris quibuscumque, Qu6d ipsi et eorum qui- 
 libet, super solam demonstracionem Iiarum Litera- 
 rijm nostrarum Patentiiim, absque aliquo alio brevi, 
 warranto k nobis, Hasredibus vel Successoribus nos- 
 tris, impetrando seu prosequendo, pl«nam, integram 
 debitamque oblacionem, deduccionem, defalcaci- 
 onem et exoneraCionem, prasfato Johanni Russell, 
 Militi, Baroni Russell et Dominae Ann^, Uxori ejus, 
 et Hasredibus Masculis de Corpore ipsius Johanni?^ 
 Russell legitime proereatis, de-omnibns et omnimodis 
 hujusmodi coirodiis, feodis, annuitatibus, redditibus, 
 oneribus, arreragiis et respectubus redditiis, de ma- 
 
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 neriis, g^rangiis, rectoriis et CEeteris prcemissis!, aut de 
 aliqud inde parcella, ut pf«fertur, exeuntibus vel sol- 
 vendis, vel super eisdem seu aliquA inde parte vel 
 parcellA onsratis vel onerandis, prasterquam de pra;- 
 dictis redditijbsis et serviciis superius per prajscntes 
 nobis reservatis, de tempore in teinpns facient et fieri 
 causabunt, de et super soliicione dicti annui redditiis 
 XXXVI LibraruiT!, et dicta annuitatis CCXLVIII 
 Librarum VSolidorum, tociens quociens aliqna hu- 
 jusmodi allocatio det'alcacio seu exoneracio fieri 
 oportet, Et bae Literse nostrae Patentes erunt tam 
 dicto Cancellario et Consilio nostro et Curise nostrae 
 Augmentacionunti RevencionumCoronaenostrse quam 
 quibuscumque reeeptoribus, auditoribus et aliis offi- 
 ciariis ministris npstris, snfficiens warranlum et ex- 
 oneracio in h&c parte. EO QUOD expressa mencio de 
 vero valore annuo aut de certitudine praemissornm, 
 sive eorum alicujus, aitt de aliis donis sive eoneessi- 
 onibus, per nos praefato Johanni Russell, Militi, 
 Baroni Russell et Annae Uxori ejus, ante hfee tem- 
 pora factis, in prJBsentibus minimi facta existit, 
 Aut aliquo Statute, actn, ordinacione, provisione 
 sive restrictione, inde in c'ontrarium facto, edito, or- 
 dinate sive proviso, Aut aliqua ali4 re, causa vel 
 materia qn&cumque, in aliquo non obstante- IN 
 CUJUS REI TESTIMONIUM has Literas nostras 
 fieri fecimus Patentes. TESTE ME IPSO ap«d 
 Westmonasterium IlII. Die Julii Anno Regni nostri 
 XXXI. 
 
sliv 
 
 (/«) Referred to from p. 55. 
 
 ''Grant vj Forde Abbey, by Hen. VIII. to 
 Richard Pollard, Esq.* 
 
 Hec Indentura facia inter Exeellentissixnum Prin- 
 flcipemet Dominum, Dominum HENRICUM Ckjtavum 
 DeigratisL, &c.et Richardum PoUard, -armigerum ex 
 «lter& parte, Testatur qu6d "idem Dominus Rex per 
 ■avisamenlam et cousensum Oonoilii Curie Augmen- 
 Ptaoionxim Reveticionutn Corone sue, t-radid'it, con- 
 ■cessitetad firmam dimisit pscefato Ricardo Pollard, 
 Seitum nuper Monasterii de Fforde in Comitatu 
 Devonie, mode dissoluti, unilcum omnibus domibus, 
 edificiis, orreis, columbariis, ortis, pomariis, gar- 
 ■diois, terrA et sole infra seitum «t precinetum ejusdera 
 nuper Monasterii existentibua, Ac omnia ilia terras, 
 prata et pasturas Rawepytt, Crosehaye, Lytle Crose- 
 hay, Chepman, Furlongs, Gretbowse, iGyfiinlong, 
 Mewmarlond, Bromehyllj Grettbromehill, Lytle 
 Orchard Mede, Swyneroft, Schephowsecroft, Bye- 
 iead, Poulemede, Blakeland, Horsecrofte, 'Wode 
 flogge Dyche, Newelease, Les Broneclose, Bere- 
 acres, Hetcbclose, Westforde Park, Necnon parvam 
 Yesturam prati vocati Brodmeade in Tarochid de 
 Charde in Comitatu praedicto, Ac omnia ilia terras, 
 prata et pasturas vocata Townedeane, "GrangecToft, 
 Lytle Howe, Piascrete Orchard Mede, Baymore- 
 (croft, Litle Park cum le Lodge ibidem, Ac omnia 
 ilia terras, prata et pasturas vocata Butmede, Sche- 
 pemaysheclose, Glastonbury, Cuiid-mede cum les 
 Orchardes et les Pooles ac cum molcndino aquatioo. 
 Tradidit eciam Doiwinus Rex et per avisamentum 
 Concilii Curie prsedicte et ad firmam dimisit prefato 
 Richardo Pollard totam illam Grangiam vocatam 
 ■Strew Grange cum pertinenciis in Comitatu predicto, 
 dicto nuper Monasterio dudum spectantem et per- 
 linentem, Ac omnia terras,, prata et pasturas vocata 
 
 ' E CoUectt. JISS. Joannis Jones, de Franklyn, Arm. 
 
BTeokestone Wyll, Heekstonwyburg, WoUat, Strope 
 Majore, Estdowne, Celapytisfeld, Castylfeld, I'laf- 
 shett, Mounkendowne, Heybal^ Heys, Street Mede, 
 Brydgemede, Chytfeld, Hasecroft, Strope Minoi\ 
 Laymore, uok cum communifl et pastura CCC oviuin 
 super montetn de Blackdbwne ibidem, dicte Granjyie 
 spectantem et pertinentem : qne omnia et singula 
 premissa cum pertinencifsjaeent etexistunt in Ffonle' 
 ac in villis, campis, parochris, hamelettis ibidem 
 adjacentibus irr dicto Comilatu Devonie et predictor 
 nuper Monasterio dadum speotabant et perihiebaiii' 
 ac in manibus, cultura et oeciipatfGne propri nuper 
 Abbatis dicti nuper Monasterii ad usum Hospicii sui 
 ante dissolutfoiiem ejiisdem nuper Monasterii, usu- 
 aliter reservata efocctipata fuerunt, Kxceptis tamerr 
 semper et dicto Domino Regi,, Heredibus et Suoces- 
 soribus suis oonniTro reservatis omnibus grossis arbo- 
 rfbus et boscis de et super premissrs cf-escentibus et 
 existentibus ac omnibus talibus et ejusmodi edifioiis 
 infra scitum dicti nuper Monasterii que dictus Do- 
 minus Rex imposterum prosterni et auferri mandavit^ 
 Habendum et Tenendum predictum Scrtum dicti 
 nuper Monasterii' ac predfctas terras-, pra'ta et pas- 
 turas et om-nia premissasuperrtis specifioata, exceptor 
 etexceptis, prefato Richardo Polfard et assignatis sui* 
 i festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeliultimd preterita 
 usque ad fiuem termini et pro termino XXI annoruni 
 ex tunc prox.ime seq^uentium ac plenarie complen- 
 dorum. Reddendo indeannuatiindlcto' Dbmino Regi^ 
 Haeredibuset Suceessorfbus suis £XL1X. Vis. VJdi. 
 legalis-monete Anglie, viz; pro predfeto Scitu dicti 
 nuper Monasterii ac predictrs terris, pratis, pasturis 
 et caeteris premissis, preter Grangiam predictam 
 vocatam Strete Grange et terram ac cetera premissai 
 eidem Grangie pertinentia, ^XXXVIII. IVs. Vld. et 
 pro predict^ GrangiS. vocatA Strete Grange et ceteris; 
 premissis eidem Grangie pertinentibus £XI. lis. ad 
 festa Annunciationis B. Marie Yirginis et Sancti Mi- 
 chsielis Archangeli vel infra unum mensem post 
 utrumque festum iJlorum ad Curiam^ predictam per 
 eqnales porciones solvendos durante termino pre- 
 dicto. Et predictus Dominus Rex vult et per pre- 
 sentes concedit, qu5d ipse, Heredes et Successores- 
 
' xlvi 
 
 iii Ricliardum Pollard et as^ignatos suos deomnibns 
 sdd^Ubus, serviciis et denaViorum decimis quibus- 
 
 Slll 
 
 rec 
 
 cumque de premiisis, seu eorum aliquo exeuntibus 
 sen solvendis, |>reterquain de redditibus superifis re- 
 servatis, versus quascumque personas de tempore iu 
 tempus exouerabunt, acquletabunt et defendent, ac 
 omnia domes, edificia prenilssorum in maremio 
 taiitummodo, de tempore in tempus toties quoties 
 neeesse et opportunum fuerit, bene et sufficienter sus- 
 teutari et manuteneri facient durante termino pre- 
 diclo. Et predictos Ricardui? Pollard concedlt per 
 presenles qH6d ipse et assignati sui omnes necessarias 
 reparaciones premissorum, preter maremium predic- 
 lum, de tempore in tempus supportabunt et sustine- 
 bunt durante termino predioto. Et predictus Do- 
 minus Rex ulterius vult et per presentes concedit, 
 qu6d ben^ licebit prefato Ricardo Pollard et assig- 
 oatis suis oapere, percipere et habere de. in et super 
 premissis, per supervisionem et assignationem Super- 
 visorura et aliorum Officiariorum Domini Regis 
 ibidem pro tempore existentium, competentem etsuf- 
 ficientem hedgeboote, fyereboot, plowbowte et 
 cartbotle, ibidem etnon alibfexpeodendam et oocu- 
 paudam durante termino predioto. In cujujs rei Tes- 
 timonium uui parti hujus Indenture, penes Rioardum 
 Pollard residende, Dominus Rex sigillum suum 
 Curie predicte ad hujusmodi scriptum sigillandum 
 deputatum, mandavit apponi : alteri vero parti ejus- 
 deni Indenture, penes eundem Dominum Regem resi- 
 dende, predictus Richardus Pollard sigillum suum 
 appoSuit. Datum apud Westmouasterium XXVIII 
 Octobris, anno regni dicti Domini Regis XXXI". 
 
xlvit 
 
 Oj) Referred to from p. 59. 
 
 Grant by the Abbot 4* Monks of Newenham, 
 to the Custos and Canons of the Collegiate 
 Church of Ottery, of a Yearly Rent Charge 
 ofXIIls. IVd. temp. Edw. Ill* 
 
 Noverint universi per presenfes, Nos Fratretn 
 Walterum de la Howse, Abbatem Monasferii de 
 Newetfham in Comitatu Devonie et ejusdem loci 
 Couventiim, de nostro unanimi assensu pariter et 
 consensu, dedisse, conoessise et hoe presenti nostro 
 sciipto eonfirmasse pro nobis et successoribus nos- 
 tris imperpetuum dileetis nobis in Xto Custodi et 
 Ganoniois Collegit et Eeclesie Collegiate Sanete 
 Marie de Ofery, Comitates predieti, Quendam, Red- 
 ditum annuum XlIIs. Illld. sterlingorum, solven- 
 dum eisdem Custodi et Canonicis per manus nostras 
 apud Gtery, deferendum ad festa Pnrifieatianis et As- 
 sumptionis B. Marie Virgiuis equis porcionibus sin- 
 gulis annis imperpetuum. Et ^ contingat prediotum 
 redditum aretro fore in parte vel in toto,' post festa 
 predieta, qu6d tunc bene liceat prefatis Custodi et 
 Canonicis et eorum Successoribus, Nos et Conven- 
 tum nostrum apud Newenham et alibi ubicumque in 
 otiinibus ierris nostris, distringere et districtionem 
 retinere donee redditus hujusmodi plenarie persol- 
 vatur, una cum dampnisetexpensis, si que fuerint. In 
 cujus rei testimonium, sigilla nostra tam Abbafis 
 qutlm Conventds presenti seripto apposuimus. 
 Datum die Lune^ proximd ante- festum Sanete Mar- 
 garite Virginis, A. D. MCCCXL.IIII et Anno Regni 
 Regis Edwardi Tertii a Conquestu XVIlIo. 
 
 N. B. It is clear, from the Chartulary of Chertsey 
 Abbey, in Lord Clifford's Library at Ugbrooke, that 
 King Edward III. began his reign on the 29th of 
 January, 1326. O. S. and not on the 20th January, 
 as is frequently asserted. 
 
 E Colleott. MSS. Joannis Jones, de Franklyn, Arm. 
 
xlviii' 
 
 Xo) Referred lo from p. 112^. 
 
 A Composition between the Prior and Con-' 
 vent of Plympton, and the Prior and 
 Canovs of Canonsleigh, concerning the 
 Elections of their respective Priors, i« 
 »219. 
 
 Ex Regist. Bronescombe, fo. 16. 
 
 Hec est amieabilis compositio facta inter PrioreiW 
 et Conventnm de Plympton ex parte un&, et Priorem 
 et Canonicos de Legh ex alter&. parte, snper contro- 
 vprsiis inter ipsos inofis, coram Venerabili Patre 
 S,* Dei gratia Exonife Episcopo, Scilicet, ci'im Prior 
 de Legh fuerit elrgendus, hoc Episcopo Exonie' 
 debet prenunciari, ut in propria persona, per se, vel' 
 per aliqnem alium quern voluerit loco sui deslinare, 
 intersit election!. Similiter Piiori de Plympton debet 
 nanciari, ut ipse inlersit electioni si voluerit, ita 
 tamen qu5d uon habuerit vocem in electione, nee 
 per Episcopum, nee per Priorem impediatur, quo- 
 minfJs ille Prior constituatur, quem elegerint Canon- 
 ici de Legh de corpore Ecclesie sue de Legh; Si 
 anlem non consenserint in aliquem de gremio Ec- 
 clesie sue de Legh, tunc priusqu^m ad aliquanr 
 aliam decurratur Eccleslam, de EecIesiSi de Plymptons 
 aliquem sibi eligent in Priorem. Si antem non con- 
 pcnserint (quod absit) in aliquam personam predic- 
 tarum Ecclesiarum,' de aliquA Conventual! EcclesiS. 
 ejusdem Ordinis et Regular!, aliquam idoneam per- 
 sonam in Priorem sibi assument. Ex quo antem 
 fuerit ibi Prior secundum supradictum modum elec- 
 tus et per hxonie Episcopum confirmatas, habeat 
 plenam potestatem Canonicorum recipiendorum et 
 rpgendorum et plenam administrationem omnium ad 
 Ecclesiam de Legh pertinencium. PretereA Prior de 
 
 • hiimiu ill' Apulia, \iliopre.Nideil in the See of Exeter from 1214 to 1224. 
 
xlix 
 
 hegh coniget excessus Canoniooruin de Legh et alia 
 eiriendabit que fuerint ibidem emendanda cnm con- 
 sensu Canonicorum suorum. Si autem tantus et 
 talis fuerit excessus (quod absitj ut per Priorem et 
 Canonicos de Legh sine scandalo non valeat emen- 
 dari, tunc Prior et Canonici de Legh significabunt 
 Priori de Plymptou, ut caritativfe ad domum eorum 
 veniat, consilium eis in corrigendis excessibus im- 
 pensurus. Et per hanc compositionem sopita fu- 
 erunt omnia litigia inter eos pi iilis exorta, et omnes 
 exacerbationes et contenciones hujusmodi sunt re- 
 misse. Si non per consilium predictorum excessus 
 in dict4 Domo poterint emendari, Exonie Epis- 
 copus, qui pro tempore fuerit, eos secundum Deum 
 emendabit. A«ta sunt hec Exonie, quartd ferid post 
 festum Sancte Trinitatis, Anno Incarnationis Domini 
 MCCXIX, Presentibns Domino Exonie Episcopo, 
 Henrico Archidiacono Exonie, R.^ Archidiacono 
 Totton, Radulfo Archidiacono Barnastaple, Magis- 
 tris Ysaac, N. Canonicis Exonie et multis ahis. 
 
 he Nere could not discoT^r the Dame of tbi) Arobdeacoa. 
 
(/)) Referred to fi'pin p. 126. 
 
 Moi/t^ Girant to William Lord Howard ancT 
 hady Margaret his Wife, qf Harnsitaple 
 Priory. 9. March, 29. Henry Vlll. 15314 
 
 REX omnibus ad q;uos &c. Salutem. SCIATIS 
 qtliftd BOS, in eonsideractbne botii, fideHs et accef^fa- 
 bilts servicii, quod dilecfus nobis Willelmus DomimS® 
 Howardv ante hsc tempera nobis fecitj Dedimus et 
 fontiassimiie, ac per prfesentes damns et eoncedimus, 
 eidem Willetmo Doniino Howard et nominseMargra* 
 letae, Uxori lejusi ©otnum et ^bituth tinpelr Priorattis 
 M«rnacho«rum Sanctse Marine Magdalenie de Earhe- 
 stiapoil ali^s Barstaple, in Comitatu nostro DevfcRiJSi 
 aW^tWritat^ ParliariiteDti suppressi et dissoluti, A<? 
 totam Eeclesiam, Campanile et Cimitorium ejnsdem 
 nnper Prioratfis, Necnon omnia messuagia, domos,. 
 edificia, grangias, orrea, sfabula, columbaria, ortos, 
 pomaria, gardina, terras et solum nostra, tarn infra?, 
 quam extra scilum, septum, ambitum, circuitum et- 
 precinetum dicti nuper Pribratlis existenda, eidem 
 nuper Prioratui speetantia et pertinentia ac parcellas 
 £nde existentia, Aeeciam omnia ilia Maneria nostra, 
 de Barnestapoll, Pylton, Slrechton et Ingestowe 
 ali£is Instowe, cum eorum membris et pertinentiis- 
 uuiversis, in Comitatu praedieto, dicto nnper Priora- 
 tui speetantia et pertinentia, Necnon totam Roc- 
 toriam nostram Ecclesise Paroohialis de Barnestapoll 
 cum suis juribuset pertinentiisuniversis, in Comitatu- 
 prsedicto, dieto nuper Prioratui appropriatam, spec- 
 tantem et pertiuentem et Advocacionem, Donacionem 
 et Jus Patronat<!ls ejusdem Ecclesiee et Vicaria? ibi- 
 dem, Ac duo Molendina nostra aquatica, vocata 
 Port Mylles, cum pertinentiis in Barnestapoll pras- 
 dict& et Pylton in Comitatu praedicto, eidem nuper 
 FrtOTatul ^pBtftaatTa et p'Wttnentia, Necnon totum 
 
 * E CoUsctt. MSS. Joannit Jones, de FranWyn, Arm. 
 
ti 
 
 Boscum nostrum, vocatum Monkewod« cum pertt* 
 dentiis in Marwude, Ac fofum Boscum nostrum V0« 
 Catum Yernewode cum pertinentiis In Pyltoii, et 
 omnia ilia Terras et Tenementa nostra cum pertinen- 
 tiis in Ingestowe, in Comitatu pra;dicto dicto nuper 
 Pfioratni speotantia et pertinentia, Neenon unam 
 Annuitatem sive annualem Pencionem Centum Spli- 
 dorum exeuntem de VicarlA sive EcclesiA de Barne* 
 stapoH praRdictS in Comitatu pTasdicto, quam Vicaritis 
 ibidem pro tempore existente annuatim solvere con- 
 suevit dido nuper Prioratui, et unam Annuitatem 
 sive annualem Pencionem Centum Solidorum exe- 
 untem de Eoclesia. sive Recto ri^ de Georgeham ali^s 
 Hani Sancti Georgii, in Comitatu praedicto, quam 
 Rector ibidem dicto nuper Prioratui annuatim solvere 
 consuevlt, Ac unam Annuitatem sive annualem Pen- 
 cionem Triginta Solidorum exeuntem de Rectori^ 
 sive EColesia, Omnium Sanctorum de Fremyngtoa, 
 in Comitatu praedicto, quam Rector ibidem dicto' 
 nuper Prioratui annuatim solvere consuevit, Ac 
 unam Annuitatem sive annualem Redditum Quadra- 
 girita Solidorum exeuntem de Castro, Dominio vef 
 Manerio sive Burgo de Barhestapoli in Comitatu 
 prjedicto, quae dicto nuper Prioratui de Barnesta- 
 poU solvi consuevit, solvendam ad Festum Sanct| 
 Michaelis Archangeli, per manus reeeptoris, ballivi, 
 firmarioium sive aliorum oceupatorum ibidem pro 
 tempore existente, Neeiion omnia alia maneria, me- 
 suagia, terras, tenementa, molendina, prata, pas- 
 cuaa, pasturas, boscos, subboscos, redditns, rever- 
 siones, servlcia, annuitates, firmas, feodi firni'as, 
 wardas, maritagia, escaetas, relevia, aquas, stagna, 
 vivaria, warennas, communias, pisearias, penciones, 
 porciones, decimas, oblaciones, curias letas, visus 
 franciplegii, ac omnia quic ad visum franciplegii per- 
 tinent, et alia jura, jurisdictiones, libertates, pCs- 
 se^siones et hereditamenta nostra quaecunque, tktA 
 temporalia quam spiritualia, cnjuseunque sint gene- 
 ris, nature vel specie!, seu quibuscunque nominibos 
 censeantur ^el cognoscantnr, cum suis jurfbns, 
 membris, pertinentiis et commoditatlbus qoibns- 
 cunque, scituata, jacentia et existentia in vfHis 
 ea-npfs, parocfeiis seu hamellettis de BaarflesttpoU, 
 
Pyltoi), Bradford, Strechton, Wetherige, Delbrige;. 
 Fullyngote, Nethercote, Instowe,, CcUeoote, Mar- 
 wode, Crede, Georgeham ali^s Sancti Georgii, West 
 Anaiy, Wolley Downe, Shyrewell, Heawnton Pon- 
 cherdon, Est Hakenden, Berynarber, Chaloeombe, 
 Laogtre, Kyntesbury, Keymelond, StSke Ryrers, 
 Potyngdon et Fremyng^toii, in Comitatu prsedicto, 
 seu alibi ubicunqne, dicto nuper Prioratui qnovis- 
 modo pertineotia sive specfanfia, ade<> plen^ etin- 
 tegrfeac intamamplis modoet form& prout Robertus 
 Thome, nuper Prior- dieti nuper PrioratAsde Barne- 
 stapoll aut predecessores sen priores ejusdem loei^in 
 jure priorat<!ls iiliuSv^ quarto die Febraarii, anno regni- 
 nostsi vicesitna septimo, aut unquam antei, omnia et 
 singula prsmissa cum pertinentiis babuerunt, tenue- 
 runt vel gavisi fuerunt,. habuit, tenuit vel gavjsus fuit,. 
 aut habere debuerunt vel debuit, ao ade6 plen^ et 
 Integra et in tam amplis modo et form&, prout ea 
 omnia et singula privmissa ad manus nostras rations 
 etpretextu eujusdam Act6s, de quibus monasteriis,. 
 abbatiisi prioratibus et domibus rellgiosis dissolvendis, 
 in.ParIiameato oostro apud Jjondinum, tercio die No- 
 vembrJs anno regai nostn vioesimo primo inchoato, 
 et deinde usque Westmonastecium adjornato,- et per 
 diversas prorogaclones usque ad et ia quartum diem 
 Februarii anno regni nostri vicesimo septimo con- 
 tinuato, et tunc ibidem tento, inter alia edlti et pro- 
 vjsij devener-un( s6u devenire debuerunt, ac in' 
 manibus' nostpis jam^ ©xistunt aut existere debent. 
 ET ULTER1U8, Damuset perpiwsentes concedimus 
 prsefato Willelmo Domino Howard et Doxniuie Mar- 
 garefae, Uxori ejus, Rectoriam Ecclesise Parochialis 
 de Toteriham cum pertinentiis, in Comitata nostra 
 Middlesex, nuper Prioratui Sanctae Trinitatis Lon- 
 doQ> modo dissolute spectantem et pertinentem, et 
 Advocacionem, Donacionem et Jus Patronatfts ejus- 
 dem Eociesiae et Yicariae ibidem, Ac omnia maneria, 
 mesuagiaj domos> edificia,, orrea, terras, tenemenia,. 
 boscos, reddilus, raversiones,. servicia, deoimas, ob- 
 laciones, obventns, petaciones^ porcLones, curias et 
 alia jura, jurisdicciones^ libertates,, possessiones, et 
 ^ereditamenta nostra quxcunque, tam spiritualia 
 quam temporalia, pujuscunque sirit generis,' nature 
 
Its 
 
 vel specie!, seu quibuscanque nominibus censeantuT 
 vel eognoscantar, cum suis juribus, ihembris, per» 
 tineatiis et commoditatibus quibuscunque, scituata, 
 jacentia et existentia io villisj locls, campis, paro- 
 chiis et hamellettis de Totenham praEdicta,et Edelrae- 
 ton, in prasdicto Comitatu Middlesex, dicto nuper 
 Prioratui Sancta: Trinitatis London, qiiovlsmodo 
 purtinentia sive spectantia. ade5 plene et integre ac 
 in tam ampHs modo et fernnA, prout Nicholaas Han- 
 cok, nuper Priwr dieti nuper Priorattls Sanct* Trini- 
 tatis aut predecessores seu prlores ejijsdem nuper 
 Prioralfts, in jure PrioratAs illius, tempore dissolu- 
 QBiOnis ejusdem napesr PrioratAs, aut anteel, ilia ha- 
 boerunt tenuerunt velgavisi .fuerunt, babuit, lenutts 
 wel gavisus fait, seu habere debuerunt vel debuit. 
 DAM US eeiam et per presentes eoneedimus prsEfato 
 Willelmo Idomino Howard et Donainae Margaretae, 
 Uxori ejus, visum franeiplegU, .ac omnia quae ad 
 visum franqiplegii pertinent, catalla felonum, fugiti- 
 n'orum,'utlagatorHm et dampnatorum, felonum de se 
 et deedanda in omnibus et singulis prsedicti« maHej-iis, 
 tterris, tenementis et caeteris preemissis et in quMibat 
 eorundem parcella, Qu<eqiudem omnia et «ii9gti'Ia 
 ^r'aemissa, -superiiis per praesentes eancessa, cum per- 
 iiuentiis, sunt clari valoris Centum quihquagiifta 
 -quinque librarum, ^uatuor soUdorum et sex deaari- 
 •oium.per annum, et non ultra, HABENDUM et 
 tenendum Domum et Scitum praedictum, ac maneria, 
 «iesuagia, terras ac castera omnia et singula piaemissa 
 superiCis specificata cum pertinentiis, praefato Wil- 
 rielmo Domino Howard etDominsE Margaretae, Uxori 
 ejus, et hieredibus de corporibus eorum inter eos 
 .legitime procreatis, ^t pro defectu hujusmodi exitils, 
 Remanere.inde, hseredibus de eorpore dicti Willelmi 
 ©omini Howard legittinte procreatis, TENENDUM 
 jfle -Bebia, HasredJbus et Suceessoiibus nostris, in 
 Capite, per Servicium Militare, videlicet, per deci- 
 niam partem servicii unius Feodi Militis, ac per 
 Redditum viginti nnius librarum annuatim nobis 
 Hseredibus et Successoribus nostris, ad Curiam Aug- 
 mentacionum Revencionum CoronEe nostrae, ad Fes- 
 tum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, Solvendum, pro 
 omnibus serviciis, exaccionibus et demandis quibus- 
 
Mr 
 
 cnnque, de, in, ant pro, prembsls quovismodo faei- 
 endis, exigendis, solvetdis vel reddendis, ET UL- 
 TERIUS, Pamus et per Preseotes concedimus pre- 
 fato Willeliiio Donnlno Howard, Exitus, Revenciones 
 et Proficua pretnissorum, k Festo Anouncfacionis 
 Beats Marise Virginis, anno regni nostri vicesimo 
 septimo, bucusque provenientee «ive crescentes, 
 HABENDUM eidfem Willelmo Domino Howard, ex, 
 done nostro, absque compoto seu aliquo alio proinde 
 nobis, Haeredibus vel Sucoessoribus nostris, quovis- 
 modo reddendo, solvendo vel faciendo. E6 qudd 
 expressa Mencio, &c. IN CUJUS, &c. T. R. apud 
 Westmonasterinm IX. die Marcii. Per ipsum Regem 
 •t de data pr8edict&, &c. 
 
iq) Referred to from p. 146. 
 
 bishop Henry Marshals ApprepricUion of 
 Ottertun Church, and others; A. D. 1205. 
 
 E Custumaji de Otterton, penes Rev, Duke Yonge. 
 
 Omnibus etc. HENRICUS.Dei gratia ExonieEpis- 
 •copus Salutem. Ad universitatis vestre perveniat 
 notitiam qu5d nos Karitatis intuitu, concessimus Deo 
 «t Ecclesie Sancti Michaelis de Monte in Pericuio 
 Maris et Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus, ad pe- 
 regrinorum et hospiturn susceptionem, Ecclesias se- 
 quentes in Episcopatu nostro constitutas, ctitn primjo 
 Vacaverint.'ln proprios usus sudfe, in puram et per- 
 petnam eleemosynam, habefldas et possidendas cum 
 pertitenciis suis, vidt. Eeclesiam de Otrint cum 
 •capellA sa& de Laliedrelandi Eecleaiam dp Sithe- 
 muge, Ecoiesiam de Arlicumb, Ecelesiam de Har- 
 peford, et, in Corliubia, Ecoiesiam de Morr.es pt 
 Eeclesiam Sancti Hilarii, Salva honesta sustentatipiie 
 Capellanorum Eeclesiis iliis deservientium, qui nobis 
 et Successoribus^ nostris de Episeopalibus respon- 
 deant; Salvis eciam nostris jure et auctoritate Epis- 
 copali in omnibus. Et ut bee nostra concessio rata et 
 inconcussa permaneat in perpetuum, cam pre§enti 
 ■ scripto et sigilli nostri a.ppensione confirmavimilij. 
 Dat. Criton pridie Kal. Septembris, Pontificates 
 nostri anno XI 1°. Hiis testibus Galtero et Henrico 
 Cojnubie et Exonie. Archidiacouis, et ceteris. 
 
Ivi 
 
 Referable to p. 60. 
 
 £ull of Pope Innocent 1 V. to the Premon- 
 atratensian Order. 
 
 E Regist. Broneseombe, fo. 87. 
 
 INNOCENT! US Episcopus, Servus Servonim 
 Pei, dileclis filiis Abbati Premonstratensi et universis 
 Abbatibus, Proposilis et Fratribus Premonstratensis 
 Ordinis, Salutem et Apostolicam Benedictionem. 
 Paci et tranquilitafi vestre ac Monasteriorum et 
 locorum vestrorum Paternd volenles in posferum sol- 
 lieitudine providere, auctoritate vobis Presencium 
 indulgemus, utnuye litere A postolice vel Legator um 
 Apostolice Sedis, que contra vos vel Monasteria sen 
 Loca vestra obtente fuerint, allquam optineant fir- 
 mitatem, nee earum auctoritate convenlri possilis, 
 nisi expressam de Premonstratensi Ordine et b&o 
 In'dulgentii fecerint mentionem. NuUi ergo omninb 
 homini liceat banc paginam nostre Concessionis con- 
 fringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si qnis 
 autetn hoc attemptare presumpserit, indignationem 
 Omni potentis Dei et Beatorum Petri et Pauli, Apos- 
 ^olorum ejus, se noverit incursurum. Datum Lug- 
 duni pridie Kal. Junii,, Pontificates nostri anno VIlo. 
 
 This Pope governed the Church from 1S;43 to 1254. 
 He called the Thirteenth General Council, atLyoub, 
 in \Ub. 
 
Ivii 
 
 Referable lo p €1. 
 
 Sulla VrivUegii qnam exhibuit Gulielmus 
 
 Norton, Abbas de Torre. 
 
 E 2. Regist. Branfyngham, fo. 26. 
 
 MARTINUS Episcopus, Servus Servorum Dei, 
 dilectis filiis Abbati et Conveutui de Torre. Ordinis 
 Preinonstratensis, Exoniensis Diooes. Salutem et 
 Apostolicam BeDedictionem. Religionis vestre per- 
 movet houestas, ut petiUones vestras, quantftm iu 
 Deo possumus, ad exaudnionis gratiam, admittamus. 
 Hine est quod vestris snpplicationibus inclinati et 
 ecclesiis vestris de Bradeworth et Boelond, Scheft- 
 beare, Tounstall, Hanok et Scylesbrok Exon. 
 et Lincolo. liioc. quas in iisus proprios vos as- 
 seritis optinere, in qaibus ordinate sunt Vicarie et 
 perpetui Vicarii inslituti, liceat nobis cedentibus vel 
 decedentibus ipsarum.Ecclesiarum Vicarias per duos 
 de vestris Canonicis Sacerdotes ydoneos singulis 
 Ecclesiis facere deserviri, quorum unum utrique 
 Dioeesano Episcopo presentetis, qui ei de Spirituali- 
 bus, vobis autem de Temporaiibus et Ordinis obser- 
 vanti4 debeat res.pondere; dumodo ipsis Sacerdo- 
 tibas tantdm de ipsarom Ecclesiaram proventibus 
 relinquatur, ut Diocesanis desnis juribns respondere 
 valeant et universa onera ipsis Ecclesiis ineumbentia 
 sapportare, Aiictoritate ApostolicA et tenore pre- 
 seneium indulgemu^. Nulli igitnr omnin6 homini 
 liceat banc paginam nostre concessionib' infrin- 
 gere autausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem 
 hoc attemptare presumpserit, indignationem Omni- 
 potentis Dei et Beatorum Petri et Pauli, Aposlo- 
 lorum ejus, se noverit iiicursuram. Datum apud 
 Urbem. 
 
 This bull, without date, is probably one of Pope 
 Martin's the Fourth, and issued between (he years 
 1281 and 1285. Info. 71. of the same Register, is a 
 ^miiar Grant of Pope Gregory's XI. dated 13. Kal. 
 Sppt.'A.e. PoDtif.circ. 1376. 
 
IviJi 
 
 Referable to pp. 94 — 5 — 6. 
 
 Sishop Ctrandisson's Ordinance respecting 
 the Constitution of the Hosjntal of SIS. 
 John Baptist^ and John Evangelist, in 
 Exeter. ; 
 
 E 1. Regist. Grandisson, fo, 184, 
 
 Dniversis Sancte JMatris Ecclesie filiis prelioso 
 
 Christ! sanguine redemptis, JOHANNES, miseraoi- 
 
 one ejusdem, Exonle Episcbpus, salutem in eo qui est 
 
 ctmni vera salus. Universitati vestre innotescimus 
 
 per presentes qu6d, in principiis nostre Promocioois 
 
 «d curam regiminis Pastoralis cui ipresidemus licet 
 
 immeriti, Hospitals SS. Johannis Baptiste ac Johan<- 
 
 nis Evangeliste in Civitate Exonie, Fundaci>onis ae 
 
 PatronatAs Episcopalis, ita desolatum comperimus, 
 
 qu6d ut in eo, iinieum fratrem Presbyterum habituBa 
 
 deferentetn et paucos infirmos invenioiiis d«cuin- 
 
 bentes: oujus desolacioni non medioeriter compa- 
 
 tjientes, sanctamque Religionem in eodem plenifts 
 
 plantare ad ^aludem et honorem Altissimiet Sanctos- 
 
 rum snorum predictorum votivis affeolibus cupientes, 
 
 et tnediantibus ope et auxilio Exeontorum Testamen- 
 
 lorum Thome et Walteri Seouudi Predecessorum 
 
 nostrorum . Exonie Ejjiscoporum, ; necnon nobiiis 
 
 quondam viri Willelmi Martyn, Numerum Quipque 
 
 Fratrum Sacerdotum ibidem Deo famulancium, unum 
 
 eorum in Priorem preficie.ndo, curam animarum 
 
 Confratrum, et Pauperum dicti Hospitalls, ut anti- 
 
 -quitils fieri consuevit, cammittendo, ad diviui cultOts 
 
 angmentum, et Duodecim pauperum infirmorun). 
 
 necnon Octo puerorum pauperum cum Magistro ad 
 
 eos in Grammaticis instruendum, de consensu dileo* 
 
 torum filiorum Decani et. CapHuli Ecclesie nostre 
 
 Cathcdralis Exonie, prout in aliis Uteris nostris ple- 
 
 aifiiB eominetur, perpetuaUter curavimds ordinare ; 
 
 predictosqiie Fralres Ordinem et Observanciam Re- 
 
lix 
 
 gala S%noti Augustiai, ad laudem et honorem ejus- 
 dem Domini nostri Jesu Christi necnon Joliannis 
 ejus Evangallste et Apostoli predilecti, ordinavimus 
 et fecimus profiteri. Dehinc quia, propter defectum 
 proprii Cemiterii, omnia in dicto Hospitali deceden- 
 tium funera ad commune Civitatis Poliandrum juxta 
 Ecclesiam Cathedralem, non sjne magno labore fra- 
 trum et tedio et Officii Divini impedimento ac aiiis 
 distractionibus, liumanda deferri consueverant, Vo- 
 lentes tarn pium opus ac Religionem, sic per nos plan- 
 tatam, uberiCis promovere et solidare, ipsorumque 
 Religiosorum devooionem ad ipsam Ecclesiam et 
 Locum eundem in quo vivere sunt professi, et t^m 
 ipsi qu4m infirmi et pauperes supradicti sacra Eccle- 
 siastica recipere eonsueti, fervenciils excitare, Ec- 
 •clesiam dicti Hospitalis et quandam Aream infra 
 cepla ejusdem, prefate Eoclesie contiguam, unAcum 
 interiori Ambitu dicte Ecclesie cum parte Claustri et 
 Capituli, babito priCis super hoe tractatu cum dilectis 
 in Christo filiis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie nostra 
 Cuthedralis predicte, et nuUo pro tunc contradicente, 
 assistentibusque nobis quibusdam ejusdem Ecclesie 
 nostre Canonicis, pro sepulturd Prioris, Fratrum et 
 Pauperum predictorum inibi obtinenda, dedlcavimus,' 
 et pro Priore, Fratribus et Pauperibus supradictis 
 liberam et ab omni onere quietam secundum Sanctos 
 Canones concessimus et per presentes concedimus Se- 
 pnlturam : juribns nostris et Ecclesie nostre Cathe- 
 dralis predicte, quoitd alios sepulturam inibi eligentes, 
 in omnibus semper salvis. In cujus rei testimonium 
 presentes literas sigilli nostri appeusione fecimus 
 «ommahiri. Datum in Manerio nostro de Chudde- 
 legh ultimo die Mensis Marcii A. D. MCCCLIV et 
 Coneecracionis nostre XXVIIo. 
 
Ix 
 
 Referable to p. 9S. 
 
 Archbishop Peckham's Letter to Bishop 
 Quicil, concerning the Observance of a 
 fapal Indult. 
 
 E Regist. Quivil, fo. 1 13. 1 14. 
 
 Anno MCCLXXXl.— XVII. Kal. Decembris apud 
 Clyst, Inspexiinus Literas Domini Canluariensis in- 
 frascriptas^ Literas Apostolicas in se contineutes, 
 sub h^c foCma verborum. 
 
 " Frater JOHANNES permissione Divin^ Cantua- 
 rlensis Ecclesie Minister hutnilis, totius Anglie Pri- 
 mas, Conservator Privilegiorum Ordinis Fratrum Mi- 
 norum, Venerabili Fratri, Dei gratiik, Episcopo 
 Exonie, Salutem et fraterne caritatis continuum in- 
 oremeotum. Noveritis nos Literas Sancle memorie 
 Domini dementis Quarli, quondam Summi Pontjficis, 
 non cancellatas, non abolitas, nee in sui parte aliqu^ 
 caneellatas, in subserdptd verborum serie, inspexisse." 
 
 CLEMENS Epi^copus, Servus Servorum Dei, dilec- 
 tis filiis Generali Ministro et Fratribus universis Ordi- 
 nis Fratrum Minorum, Salutem et Apostolioam Bene- 
 dictionem. Quidam, temere Sentientes et ad sobrieta- 
 tem sapere nescientes, imprudenter asserere presu- 
 munt,qu6d de licexitia vel commissione ac concessions 
 Romani Pontificis, seu L^gatorum Sedis Apostoliee 
 vel Ordinariorumlocorum, vas sine Sacerdotum Pa- 
 rocfaialium licentid. et assensu non potestis liberp pne- 
 dicare populis, audire confessiones, absolvere Peni- 
 tentes ac Penitentias injungere salutares. Nos vo- 
 lentes assertionem tam temerariam petiitils confutare 
 et elncidare in talibus Veritatem, deliberatione pro- 
 vide declaiamus, qu6d si vobis detur lioentia, com • 
 niittatur seu coneedatur a Legatis Predicte Sedis aut 
 Ordinariis looorum (nedum k Romano Pontifiee, de 
 quo proculdubioest erronenm dubitare,) ut hi omnes 
 sine alicujiis consensu, im6 ei invitis quibuslibet 
 ht'/jusmodi, concedere possint potestatem populis 
 
Ixi 
 
 Legatis et Ordinariis subjeciis, eisdem liber^ pre- 
 dicare potestis, audire confessiones, absolvere vobis 
 confitentes et peDitencias vobis confiteritibus injun- 
 gere salutares, aliofum Ministrorum, PreJatorum et 
 Rectorum Ecclesiarnm ac Sacerdotum Paroehialiiim 
 assensu nullatentis requisito ; , illis casibus exceptis, 
 qui de jure, consuetudine seu retentione ab eis spe- 
 oialiter facta, sed Sedi Apostolice et Ordinariis pre- 
 dictis specialiter relinquuntur, ad quas non licet vos 
 extendere, nisi vobis specialiter eommittatnr. Ide- 
 6que auctoritate Apostolic^ districcifis inhibemus, 
 ne qnisque super hiis vel eorum aliquo, vos vel 
 aliquem vestrAm, aut et confitentes vobis, vel ad 
 predicationes vestras forsitan accedentes, contra 
 predictam declarationis formam aliqoatenCis moles- 
 tare presumat ; Decernentes Nos, irritum et inane 
 qulcquid fi, quopiana contra declarationem et inhi- 
 bitionem hujus eontigit attemptari. Nulli igitur 
 homini liceat banc paginam nostre declarationis et 
 constitutionis Jnfringere, vel ei ausu temerario con- 
 traire. Si qnis autetn hoc attemptare presarnpserit, 
 indignationem Omuipotentis Dei et Beatorum Petri 
 et PauH, Apostolorum ejus, se noverit incursurum. 
 Datum Perils XII. Kal. Julii, Pontificates nostri anno 
 primo. 
 
 " Hujus igitur auctoritate Mandati, Fraternitatem 
 vestram requirimus et hortamur, ne predlctos Fratres 
 contra Indultum hujusmodi permittatis ^ qnocumque 
 Subditorum vestrorum impediri vel indebite moles - 
 tari ; quibus unlversis et singulis sub periA Excom- 
 municationis, ne boo clam vel palam, directs vel 
 indirecte, facere audeant, prohibemus. Datum 
 apud Slygdon VII. Kal. Augusti, Anno Domini 
 MCCLXXXI, Pontificates nostri anno secundo." 
 
Ixii 
 
 Referable to p. 99. 
 
 The following Document, most beautifuUiff 
 writienin /b/. 128, of Bronescomhe's Re- 
 gister, contains a Grant of the Use of a 
 JLibrary to the PrantHscan Convent^ in 
 Exeter. 
 
 Sciant presenles et futuri, qui)d ego. Frater Wil- 
 lelmus de Tukebire, tunc Quaidianus Ordinis Mino- 
 rum Exonj?, et ejusdejn Loci Cqnventus, Cartam 
 jVIagitJtri Rogeri de Tboris, tunc Archidiacqni; Exonie, 
 in bouii prosperitate constiluti, stiscepimus in bee 
 verba. 
 
 ", Noscat preseus Etas sciatqiie futura Posteiitasr 
 quftjd ego Rogerus de Tboris,* tunc Archidiaeonus 
 Exonie, in bonS. mentis et corporis prosperitate con- 
 stitutns, inestimabilem fruqtum per Fratres Minores 
 et Predicatores, animarum saluti et subditorum nos- 
 trorum et aliorum correctione insistentes, jugiter et 
 Deo Creatori nbstro continue ■ famulentes in Eccle- 
 sik Dei, provenientem considerans, caritative dedi,. 
 concessi et presentis pciipture meo testimqnio confir- 
 mavi Coinmuniiati Fratrum Minorum in Civitate- 
 Exonie^ preseotibus et fuluris tejnporibus coinmo- 
 rantlum, Usum Librorumsubscripto rum ; Salvo Pre- 
 dicaforibusClvitatis ejusdern ipsorum Ldbrorum usu,. 
 per partes et.ad lenapus cum indiguerint, dum tamen 
 ydonee, comodi et absque impedimento Hotabjii seu 
 manifesto id fieri poterit ; Dominio eorundem libro- 
 rum mifai dum vixerc, omni tempore, reservato; et, 
 me decedente, dominium predictorum librorum ad 
 Decanum Majoris Ecclesie Exonie, qui pro tempore 
 fuerit et ad Capitulum transeat immediate ; ila tamen 
 quod non liceat uUi viventi dictos libros vendere, 
 donare, impignorari, vel aliquo modo alienare vel 
 
 • Roger deThori! beet me Dean of Exeierin 1270, and died four yearj after .- 
 
Ixfii 
 
 etfam ad alios usns eonvertere. Et sunt hii libri de 
 quorum usa snprd. fit mentio, scilicet, Prvnum vo- 
 lumen Pentuiettci—itom, primum Vohmen Hisiori- 
 aliuin~i\enii prim^im twiumen Prophe/urum^item, 
 MaUketts et Marcus in nno volamlhe—i^em, quiiiqu& 
 libri SalOinonis ia uno volumine---iiem, Actus Apos* 
 inlorum el Canonice^ cum Apocalipsi in uno ' 
 Vdlumine— item, primum volumen Oiitfinalium Au- 
 gUsiini^-Hem, tertium Fol Summe Fratris AleX' 
 andri\ super SevHenliaft, in qtro est tertius liber et 
 fiftagna pars quarti SeatentiarWm — item, Summa 
 Mitgislri WlUelmi de Aucceret— item, magne 
 Concordaniie Predicatorum in uno Vof. — item, 
 Postille% super omnes libtos Bisloriales, prefer 
 librum Macchabeorum in uno VoL — item, PosUlle 
 super Psallerium in dioersis locis secundum frairem 
 Hugonem Cardinaleni\\ cum ihemalibus per tofum 
 annum et cum ques-tionihu>, Philippi Cancetlarii Pa~ 
 risiensis, que sic incipiunt, Fadam in agrum, in una 
 Vol. — item, Dislinctiones Philippi Cancellarii Pa- 
 risiensis super Psalterium cum Summa sermonutn 
 mibiilium que inoipit, Quasi dilnculo — item, Psai- 
 ierium Bononiense glosatum. Quienmque hanc Do- 
 nationem meam qualitercunque immutare presnmp- 
 serit in futurum, Dei Omnipotentis .malediotionem 
 incurrat: Datum die Purifieationis, Anno Domini 
 MCCLXVI." 
 
 Quam quidem Carfam et ejus formam tofam la 
 omnibus articulissuis gratanter aceeptantes, bona fide 
 eldem promittimus et <am nos quam nobis succes- 
 suros, testimonio scripture presentis teneri denun- 
 eiamns et denunciabimus et cum eflectu curabimus ad 
 omnium et singulorum in Carta, memorata conten- 
 tcrura observatioHem fldelem et perpetuam. . Et ut 
 
 * ubaudi, Epislolis^ 
 
 t Alexander of Hales, a native of Glouceitersbire and an eminent 
 Divine and Canonist, of the Franciscan Order. He died at Paris in 1245. 
 
 J Bishop of Auxerre : he flourished in the middle of the J3li Century. 
 
 § A Gloss or Commentary. 
 
 It Hugo deSanctoClaro, in Burgundy, was of the DomiDioaii Order, end 
 was made Cardinal in 1244. 
 
indfe major flat securitas, concedimus pro nobis et 
 fratribus futuris, qu5d in fini cujuslicet anni revoluti, 
 memoratus Decanus quicumque pro tempore fueiit 
 post mortem prefati Archidiaconi, cum aliquo ex 
 parte Capituli ad hoc deputato, super premissis factis 
 et concessis examinationem faciat in domo nostra 
 diligenter, per quam &i quid contra tenorem prefate 
 carte inveniatur attemptatum, illud siti« more dis- 
 pendio, per eundem Decanum cum consiiio Capituli 
 sui revocatur ad staium debitum, ordinatum et bon& 
 fide promissum. In cujus rei testimonium presenti 
 Scripto, sigtllum mcmm un4 cum sigillo ConventA» 
 nostri fecimus apppni. Datum die Purificationi» 
 Anno Domini MCCLXVJ. 
 
\ty 
 
 fed'eraJble io p. Itilg. 
 
 Bif hop Edmund Lucy's Sermon, delivered td 
 the Chapter House of the Dominican Con- 
 Dent, in Emeler, on the ISth of August ^ 
 A. D. 14il, before tt General Chapter Of 
 the Order, 
 
 A^c^iidii: de Deseirtb deliciis alBueris; 
 
 Canticoruna ¥111°. Capttulo, et pro Themate As* 
 lUmptionis hodiernie. 
 
 Preolari Domini ac Pati'es EccleSie Mirabiles Ari- 
 ^lioadej pfelucidi Predicatoresj Ardhipredioatoresj 
 iiostrunl Celiciimj nostrum Dothittum ib actibas 
 ierarchidis imitHntes, iriutu^ vbs hoHatiiiir ad assen- 
 sum pfo th^miite electiinl. Ascendit ehiiii Christus 
 iiGster legifef prelibatiis in ihbnteni ut Dbctor et Pre- 
 dicator. ' Asbendit seoiindo in ihoilteiti ut devbtissi^ 
 inus Oraiof— Ascebclit telrtib Calvslifb SUttimifatetii 
 iit vigilantissimus SpeCulatoi': (jtHA igituf Pr^dica- 
 toris ^t Speculators boncurfiiht bfecialj tos PtediCai 
 tores eihoftOr ad Speciiium ascendehduiri ad tali* 
 videlid^t periciila previdfenda, ad remedia pi'bvidendd 
 6t ad sbffragia dapessSnda— primum pertinens ad so- 
 iicitudinein— secbndutu ad discrfetionem — tettium ad 
 deyobioneiri. SpecuJatbri eniili non bongrnit teih- 
 pbribus nunc pediculosis in locis latebrosis dorhairej 
 s6d in Ipbb ehaineaciofe stare et imioniDeilcia petidula 
 aniitihbiarg nis i^uid p^HcUli ertiefgat i[Uod hbb pre^ 
 yideatufj terribilenl Dbihiiii fedbituru^ Sententiairi 
 Ez^O^y is iettio '' Spebulatdrum dedi te** tfec. et capi-- 
 iulti XXXIIIo. '' Si Speculator viderit gladium veni- 
 entein fet bbn insQnuerit buccina^ vfeneritq ; gladiu^j 
 tulerit eiirfi istcj in iiii«iuitate eaptiis fest, sanguihfeift 
 autern ejus de manii speculatofis ret}uli'ain;" As: 
 fcenditei ei-gb ad pi'oftindata Sacl-e! SfcHpture'intfellis 
 feenfciaiti et tales ad apicetti in fe^i decbfatos- iii hb8 
 Sacib Veslfb Capiftilal-i Conbilio eligatisj ^ul &A 
 
rxvi 
 
 mores et gcieatiam optime sunt indofls, non prbpc^- 
 nendo Goliardos * cantores, ineptulos autt coma- 
 tulas Patri& et sangHine convictos — taleS itiquam in 
 altitudine Scripturarum insonabunt buccinA, previ- 
 debunt spiritAs pericula et providebnnt refnedla; set 
 tanta est emineiida intellfgencie que itnpugnatur, 
 taDta cautela culpe que impugnatur, tanta latencia 
 spiritu&lis plage que aggravat, quod Uec quisquam 
 nnqiiam reperietur tain sciolns aut stultus qui possit' 
 contra matignantes in Ecclesiam sanctam'sinfe oraoi- 
 onum suffragiis effioaciier subsistere: Meo cnm 
 Cartusiensibus, ut refert Jacobus de LosaunA, prope 
 
 hujus festi in vigiliA ihparv&Gran- 
 
 gi4 pernoctantibus post artain panis et aque sump- 
 eioneiii cum ciliciis ad nudam humum soporantibus, 
 hbrfi Ordinis consuetft surgentibus, ilnatntinas'decan- 
 tantibus cum " Felix namque" usque ad Versum de- 
 curso, indiqibili suavitate vox auditur Angelica, clarfe 
 personans " Ora pro populo, &c." Et uos in CoUa- 
 cionrs exordio oremus pro Princljpibus et Populo, 
 pro Capite Ecclesie et Clero, pro Femineo Sexii ad 
 EcclesianL devoto, et pro dormientibus et Fidel ibus 
 yiventibus, ut post seculi' desertum celestibus possint 
 aflSuere deliciis, pro commendari consuetis et aliis 
 yobis et miohi necessariis, dicat quilibet Orationem 
 Dominicam, non omittendo salutarem Mariam. 
 
 Ascehdit de deserto deliciis affluens — ubi supra' 
 ©ominus Hugo exporierig illud Divi Dionysii de ce- 
 lesti lerarcbiA " non solum in superpositis et subjec-- 
 tis animis; sed equ4 potentibus ipsa lex definitur" 
 dJpit qu6d in superioribus et inferioribus et in paribus 
 Angelis et hbminibus ita constituta est lex, ut qui 
 minores sunt, minores illuminent, cum alia sit dig*- 
 nitas superpositorumr aJia mediorum, alia subjec- 
 torum ; sic alia virtue est primoruni, alia mediocrium,- 
 alia ultimorum. Primi cetepis provident, medii in 
 equalibus concordiam retinent, inferiores superiores 
 imitantur et cum eis copuIam> terient, videiitet, in- 
 ferioribus spiritibus querentibus " Quisest, &c. " qiii^ 
 ascendit de Edbm,- tinctig^ vestibus de Bo.«ra : is(c 
 formosus in stol^ su& :" sic in mirifictl et gloriiic&' 
 
 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . i' .. - 
 
 • Goliardus, n Buffoon, u Juggler — see Spelnan's GIussof}'. 
 
 f Como^uls^— B siliy «oxeomb. 
 
iivii 
 
 hotli^ assumpsione, question! non ignoranciiim sivJ^ 
 adfnirantium petentiuiii, Canticorum, VIo. capitulo. 
 " Que est ista, que progreditur quasi aurora consur- 
 gens, pulf ra ut lund,, electa ut sol, terribilis ut cas- 
 trorum apie^ drdiriata?" respondetur , per Thematis 
 Verba, cujri^ sensus planus est cunctis Christidolis; 
 , §ui>d " Ascendit de deserto delioiis dfiluetis.". In 
 Jjuibus verbis tria se offerunt elucidandai videiiceti 
 [juritatis virginalis, decens sublfmacid, vanitatis 
 mund.iali's potefls superacio, sdrictitatis internalis fef- 
 vans jueundatio. Priniuni ibi, ascendit : Securiduni 
 tbi, de deserto :' Terliunt ibi, deliciis affluens ■ decent 
 sublimaclo puritati^ liotatiir in verbo ascendit, quia 
 asdeadit sp^cios^, infinia calcando — ascendit stu- 
 diosh media reforniando et ascendjt gloriosh, siimmk 
 ifanstdlandQ, 1 nconibustus rnbus erat ratiorie ignee 
 J)untaiis— eraf vellus Gedednia i",8ltiope sacrate fecun- 
 ditatis et erat yellus Sureum Jasdriis frftidrie nobilis- 
 slme sue i-adioSe claritaiis. . Qui ided proterve 
 dpinidne reprob^ Intuuritur fuscare ejus Concepti- 
 dnenri^ orasua conipescant, et qui intuuntur maculare 
 fejus odnversatidnem obmutescant et qui nolunt ejus 
 Assumpsionis exitum. exaltare, perpetud deliteseant. 
 Virginea ejus puritas prime transpar'ens et summe 
 diaphou) puloritudiQeai excedit omnium reruni ter-. 
 renarum merito in Loco hodiS r^ponitur tibi est 
 *' Species et gloria stellarum" Edclesiaistici; ('43e. 
 100) In quibiis .verbis notaintur tiia — Doctor supre- 
 miis cunctorun?i sic et amenus — Species celi — Finis 
 serenus queni querit quisque terrenus — gloria. — ' 
 Celorum decus Rex Regum' lumine oecvis—siellarum: 
 Ex primo progredltuf dm'nis piilcritudo— in secundd 
 dernitur dmnis quietudo ; ex tertio. promittitui- po- 
 feucie plenitude. Primum probatur ex Lactantid 
 lib. Il,*ubi sic " Ter rani sfabili fundamento sns- 
 pendit, qui ceium distiuxit sistris fulgentibus in argu- 
 hienlum unice- majesldtis qui posset^ eslendere 
 danipos, subsidere valles, ffoiide tegi silvas, lapidosoS 
 sargere montes" Hiuo brdine condidH creaturas; 
 dum cuncta in partibus disposuit in maximo, ordine' 
 dtmeusurl, ut et celam choruseaiis, astra fulgencia j 
 
 • See, lie Origine Erroris, Lib. 1. >■■■ S. 
 t In itie edlt6'rf coj'iesil hjuxfll. 
 
Ixyiii, 
 
 terra fraotificaos, iminenganiaria ; piscesfet volucres^ 
 fiommiries et peoiides unlversA pulcrifudino ; hoc? 
 ordine trino collocaTitnr. Est igitur hie ternaria: 
 omniam species, utdicit Doctor deificus super Gene- 
 si m(S. AugustinuJi) " HeO oAiniasunt Deus, quisibi 
 qniderrt mensur^ omnem rei modum prefigit ; sibr 
 'qu6d mnndus omni rei pdtesfate probatur, et ut 
 pondus omnem rem ad quietem et stabilitatem tra- 
 hit." Hiec ills Pater. E ten im qu6d in creatures snis 
 Deus cernitur' mental! oculo, dum hie percipitur" spe- 
 cies celi, a^trorum decus dignd extollitur', e6rum 
 digiiitias eunctis diffunditur, dum species celi sit in 
 visionis gloria — supple, — Stellaru)n — fit species cell* 
 amabilis lux et laudabilis orbis amenus, sit gloria 
 Vite regnabiliSj status amabflis propter quam cuncta- 
 fitstellarum virtus durabrlis et gubernabilis ereatura- 
 rum, dum species celi fit gloria Siellarum. Sic pro- 
 batur primum, SeCUudo Locus hoditf assdmpte Vlr- 
 giuis est finis serfeuUs qn^m querit quisque te'rrenus. 
 Philosophoruiri et Ethicdrum probatio, qu6d neegssd 
 est aliquem fineiii 6sse reriim humanarum, viz. im- 
 mortalitas et etertiitas. Ad quam Nostra, auctoritate' 
 DivinA merito assumitor per Apdstbtum ad' Komanos 
 (2° cap. v. 10) " Gloria, bonof et pa* omni operanli 
 bonum." Internum commereium procbl excluditur" 
 eternale premium dum -bonis promitfiitir : gloria, 
 hoUor et pax secundum condicionem ounctis exponi- 
 tur, dum Sanctis solum conceditur qubd> Operanti 
 bonum, gloria memorata est finis creature'; pro quS.- 
 consequendfi, vos Presbyteros hortor intetllsissimfe, 
 districlos et penaies Religionis ritus animusH dispen- 
 Batione recipere et cnncta immortalitatci glorier recu- 
 gare, exemplis eorum qnos Pater vester Beatns Au- 
 gustinus recitat* de Civiiat&, qtii pi'o rfe parvA et ci- 
 vitatiim terrenarum pace' tenefrim^ dilectos occide- 
 b6nt ut Bricinst et Torqtla^us proprios fratresj inte-- 
 rimebant : sic Mutius§ manum in ardentem aram 
 immittendo combusserat, ut ecclesias ab bostibus 
 
 * Subaudiin Ubro. 
 % Lege Brutus. 
 {' Lege filior. 
 §. AJ4e lonrola. 
 
rtueratur -^sjc* Quirluus arma(u» eqao concito in 
 -abruptuin terre hiatum ss dedit precipitem Deoruin 
 suorinn oraculU^erviens ; quanto rios pro Immaroeji- 
 sibili gloria pro qiiA Eoclesiastici (cap. 43. 13. v ) 
 " Ecce Deus gyi'avit reelum per oircuitum gloria 
 sue •"etc. intemsrafa potestas niirabiUs reperiturqu6(i 
 gyravit celarn per cireuitam, oujus jucunda influencia 
 oelestibus largitur, quum gyravit eelum per circu- 
 jtum glorie sue : sic decor oelesMs sanetos glorificat 
 ettanquam side'ra in eelo collocat. Ex quibus pro- 
 batur, qu6d ornamentum superioruni etifulcimentum 
 inferiorutn norma et virtus omnium Sic species celi. 
 Consolamen viatorum, vita clvium superiorum— fit in 
 gloria et que rigant rore, yma rerum in nitore, ornat 
 eelum eum spleudore, iuminum sunt stelle i sio ha- 
 betur secundum. Tertio, dixi, qu6d celorum decui 
 Rex regit lumine ceeus seilitjet, stellarum. Dieunt 
 enim Bartholomeus et>Beda de ndturis, ,quedam stelle 
 erratice per orbes distincte et virtute elementorum et 
 mixtorum sunt luminaria cuncta que gubernant ; per 
 qnas septem, septenarium intelligo Beatorum qui 
 sunt, Patriarche, Propbete, Apostoli, Evangeliste, 
 Martyres, Confessores et Virgines benedicte, qui ra- 
 diantes choruscationes charismatum SpirittJis Sancti 
 diversis oracionum influeneiisChristicolissubveniunt 
 unirersis quorum precipua, £eata hodi^ assumpta 
 glories^ boronala secundum illud, Apocalypsis duo- 
 decimo " In capite ejus coiroaa duodecim stellarum" • 
 meritis Apostolofum quos fide eclipsatos illustravit. 
 Sic Salomonis verbo Sapientie ^quarto (v. ^,) " im- 
 pwpetuum coronata "triumphat." In quibus verbis 
 felncent Virginis gloriose ad *elos exaltate, Prima- 
 cionis excelientia, ibi coronata : — Matris graciose 
 stellarum gIori& decorate exultatlonis preeminencia 
 — triumphat — et dotis sibi presiose collate sibi pro 
 durationis indeficencid, ibiimperpetuum. Pro primo 
 effulsit splendenter sine nube obumbrante, induens 
 vestem nupcialem — pro sfccundo, processit puriter 
 sinelabemaculante accipiens pjalmam triumphaiem — 
 
 • Lege Marcus Curtius. The careful reader will observe ,many .other 
 inistakes, and some omissions of Members of a Senteaoe. But whilst he 
 rtakes allowances for the carelessness of Lacy 's -Secretary, he cannot 
 •jcuse the Bishop for saocificing sense to souni, anil debasinj the Dignity 
 tf the Pulpit. 
 
prolprtio coiicedif ncbiljter sine iabe inDrtificaplfi 
 habens ?tofam eternalem. Sic habito pro certo, qub^ 
 nil contraxit de mutidi desertp in viciia ; " Ascendit 
 de deserto affluens dplicjis," qnod erat t.hema. 
 
 Set pro moraii sensu, Fratres, sic consimilitep 
 agatis, ad vos dirigepdo serpionem, ponsulendfl 
 uionep, jit ad -yirlutum monteai' celeriter aspendalis, 
 ut in pres^nti gralie et expecfationis glorip (statu) 
 deliciis affluatis secundum verbupa Thematis. Nutate 
 quod fiixi desertp, qnbd duo sunt ip ScripflurA, scir 
 licet, infernus mundus, status Penitentie et Para^ 
 disus glorie.* De primp Ezeehielis XXIXp. (,^. 60") 
 " Pfojiciam te in desertum.." Dp secundo " Vox 
 clainantis in Deserto" Jojiannis Ip (v, 23°) De tertiq 
 Jeremie llo(v. 2o) " Secutaps mp in deserto:" hoc 
 est penitentiae statu amaro. De quarto, |jQce (1§ 
 cap. 4 V.) " Quis est homo qui habet centum oyes, &c. 
 &e." PrinQum pjgt pxhorrendum ut plenura horrori^ 
 — secundum est apernendum quod plenum erporis^— 
 per tertium est ambulanfium., qu6d includit dolorem — 
 ad quartum est ^ccelerandum qubd. promittit dul- 
 corem. Beata enim Virgp erat jn desertum hprrens, 
 —secundum contempnens^tertium tenuit et ad 
 quartom anelayit. Vos, -Patres, primum horrete la 
 periculis : secundo, scandite, ut sicut in Israelitarum 
 itinere quod geiius serpentum oecurrit, Ita in mundi 
 nostra viaeionis deserto et aspia voluptate, que facie 
 blanditur sed caude finis amarissimfe percutit. Tertiq 
 Serpens vane glprie, qui in puU-ere absconditulr et se 
 ibi ' ' . Quartps est Scorpipnisque invidia 
 
 et ira : pernicios^imje pungjt et occidit et qu6d hec in 
 latebris hujuis umbrosi (ipserti absconditur, in nqstrf 
 perigrinacionis vik lucerpas vestras ^pcenflite, ut 
 cayeant homines k npgocio perambulantes jn tenebris! 
 ,ettetris demonibus. Luceat lux vestra cprapi hotni- 
 nibus, videlicet quanto in quibus verbis. Eceeactuil 
 splendoris, loeeat forma decoris — Luw vestra : ef 
 eeee fama vigoris, poram hominibus qudd subtillter 
 operatur est lux, quod utiliter ^erivatur ut luqeat et 
 qu6d visibilit«r presentatui* coram hominibus ; vet 
 'sic, qu6(i formidantem letificat, est hux vera, et 
 quod ignorantem letificat ps| ut luceat cgran^ 
 
 " * TheM is eTidentty an hiatus in this sentence of lentMoesi 
 
Ixxi 
 
 fiominibus. Sic sernnonum confortacioDibus luceat 
 lux vestra coram hominibus, sic cherubic^ ascen^ 
 dere, sic ceraphice Bonoram deliciis in Patri& af- 
 j9uere, vobis concedat precibus Alme sue Matris, 
 (Cbdstus, qni sine fine vivit et legnat. Amen. 
 
IsxW 
 
 Referabls to p. US, 
 
 Mond from the Canbnesses and Convent of 
 
 Canonsleigh, to the Dean and Chapter of 
 
 Exeter, for the Payment to them of a per -^ 
 
 petual Yearly Pension of Four Marks, out 
 
 of the Goods of the Church of f^m^ordi^ 
 
 Noverint nniversi Presentes I^iteras de Legb Ca^ 
 nonicarunij E)xQniensis Piooesis iiQOJ et Conventtia 
 inspeoturi Tenemur et efPectuaUter qbligaraur Reve- 
 rendis Viris Dominis Decaqo et Capitulo EiXonie, ex 
 Canoaicd impositions et oonstjtutiode Yeoerabilis 
 Patrig Domioi Walterit Dei gratis Exonie Episcopi, 
 loci Dyocesani, (&o. oopseasu CapituU sui predict! 
 et nostrum super h^c oonventiooe factik, in qu&dam 
 annud Pencione et perpetu^ lY Maroarum de Sonis 
 nosfris Eoolesie de Ponnesford ejusdem et Exo- 
 niensis djcte Ecclesie nobis Canonioe appropriate, 
 tsolvenda dictis Pecano et Capitulo in Scaccariu 
 eorum Expnie annis singulis in Festo Invencionis 
 Sancte Crocis absque more dispendio longiore, Ad 
 quam quident soluoiqneiii solvendam, obligamus nos 
 et omnia Bona nqstre Eoclesie Mundana coeroioni 
 et districtioni c^juscumque Jndicis Ecclesiastici ve} 
 Seoularis, quem dicti Peoanns et Capitulum super 
 boc duxerint eligeqdum, utipsi nqs per quamcumque 
 coercionem seu districtionem Ecclesiastican> vei 
 Mundanam possint distringere et coercere ad polu-- 
 cionen) plenarjam dicte Pencionis, quoadnsque opus 
 fuerit pro sue beneplacito votuntatia, {n cujus rej . 
 testimonium, &c. &c, Patum apud I^egb Canonic 
 earun» VIlIo, diemensis AprUis, A. P, MCCCXIV, 
 
 * S CoUtcU, MSS, Joaniiis Janes, de Franl^l^D, Arm, 
 \ Bp. Walter StapeMpn, 
 
Ixxiii 
 
 Referabit to p. II3, 
 
 E Resist Quivil, fo, 129.* 
 
 Avknowhgement, by Bp. quivil, of the De^ 
 posit with him, by Lady Matilda de Clare, 
 Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, of 
 600 Marks, for the Work and Use of 
 Canonsleigh Abbey, in 12*5. 
 
 OMNIBUS presentes Literas inspeeturis PETRUS 
 nifeeratiQH,e DivjnA Exonie Episcopus, salutem in 
 Poaimo sempiternam. Noveritis qu6d nos Septiiijo 
 Kal. Septembrls Anno Domini MCCLXXXV In Ca, 
 pitulo Dostro Recepimus a nobili mullere DomioA 
 Matilda de Clara, Glouoest. et Hertford. Comitissa, 
 per manus Domini Boberti de Racbingtone Militis, 
 Beligiosi Viri Fratris Walteri de la Yore, Monachi 
 Cisteroiensjs Ordinis et Gilberti de Wyoombe, Pres. 
 byteri, Sexcentas JSIarcas bonorum et legaliiim ster- 
 llngoruHi in Deposito oonservandas, pront in instru- 
 mento pnplkco Inter nos Petrum Exonie Episoopum 
 et diotam Dominam Cqmitissam super hoc oonfeoto 
 pleniAs continetnr, in Opns et Utilitatem Abbatbie 
 de Ijyghe, Exonie Dioe. salv6 constitnendas et 
 restituendas prefate Domine Comitisse et Abbatissa 
 JVbbathie predicte siqnnl diotd ComitissA vivente ; 
 post mortem vero ejusdem Comitisse, Abbatisse pre- 
 dioteet ejusdem loci Conventui tantum, et qon alie 
 
 vel aljis sine mor4 et dUaoione aliquA infra , 
 
 postquam per diotam Comitissam et Abbatissam vel 
 earnm alteram, vel per legUimos Attornatos Ipsapum 
 vel earum alterius, ad boo legitime oonstitntos, fneri- 
 mus reqniaiti, quociesoumque etquandoenmqne nobis 
 fides facta fuerit, qqod ad Opus et Utilitatem prefate 
 Abbatbie per dietam Cpniitissain, est Abbatissam, terra 
 
 • The \rhqle Qf tbi; Ilsgister is written in a very smttH ohitrEioter, nqi) 
 with the palest |n|i, to restore vrhiPh, some ofiioiQu; Person has h»4 
 tffoajst to A Splqtioo gf ©»U«) an* Dm great}}- (Jeftogd the M§. 
 
Ijcxif 
 
 v^l reddituy fqerJni comparati : func videlicet, pro 
 ratA emptionis facte restituatur pecunia in toto vel in 
 parte pergonis pred]ctis, sicut superiCis est exprossum. 
 Volentes et express^ qpnsentientes pro nobis et se- 
 nescbalibus Qostris qui pro tempore fuerint, qabd ad 
 receptionein, cu^todiain et restitucionem dicte pe- 
 cuuie, modoet oondicionibus sopradictis tenere .... , 
 ...,..,..,., nomine nostro deputamus. Qu&d si per in- 
 curiam, pialiciam, vel negligenciam in restitoendA 
 dictA peouni&i in toto vel in parte, ut premittur, ali- 
 quid difflcultatis emerserit, pretexta CDgua, dicta 
 Abbathia in emptlooibus suis jaoturam incurrerit vel 
 gravamen, Nos dampna et gravamina omnia pro- 
 venientia dicte Abbatbie, ex hftc causA, teneamur 
 plenari^ resarcire et boo postquam super emptione 
 terre vel reddituum, fides facta fuerit ut est dictum. 
 In oujus rei testimonium sigilla nostra presentibus 
 9unt appensA. Patum E^OQle die, loco «t anno su* 
 prftdjctis. 
 
jj^Xf 
 
 fieferaMe iq p. }15, 
 
 f^fme from King Henri/ VlII, to, Thomas d» 
 Spulemont, Gent of the Abbey of Cm^fim^ 
 leigh, and some of its PQssessiqns,^ 
 
 Haee Indentui:a fact^ ipter Expellentissimum Prin- 
 pipem et Dominum, Dominvim Heqricum Vlll. 
 Dei Gr^ciA, &c. &c. ex un& parte,, et Thomam.de 
 Souleaiont, de London, Generosum, ex alter& parte. 
 Testator qu6d idenr Dominug Reac, et per Eidvjsa- 
 mentum Conoilji Curiae ^^gmentac^onum, «&c, trar 
 didit, Qonoessit et ad firmain dirnislt, prsef^to Thonpiae, 
 Domum et Scitum nupep Monasterii de C^nonlegli, 
 in Gomitatu Devonise, inod6 dissoluti, undicum pm- 
 nil;us domibus, edificiis, stabulis, horreis, colHmbariis, 
 molendinis, hqrtis, pomariis, gaydiois, aquis, cursjbijsi 
 ^quarum, stagnis, yiyp^Ji'iis, terris et so}o, et aljis oom- 
 piqdi^atibus, quibuspomque, infr^ p^-ecinGturn, et 
 Ecjtuni ejusdem nuper Monastprii existentibus, Nec^ 
 npn onaqia ilia Terras, Prata, Paspua et Pastoras, 
 Jampna et Brueras, vocatEi Knollaqd, Fypkebyli, 
 jGrolempre, Selham, (Pyland, Ayber, Estbyoke, 
 iVfy^del Estbroke, Fuflong, Longleigh, Marell Payke, 
 Close Furlong Mede, Pole Mpde, Posterns Mede, 
 Pyls^jd Mede, Marlemede, JShortliele, WftUays. Lqwt 
 dops Croftp, Sowdon.t) Pynsjadje et Somersheppen, 
 pun? pertineptiis, in Comitatp Devonim et Somersetse, 
 Ac pmnia ilia Terras, Prata, Pascua et Pagturas, 
 vopatas Coyvteshyll, Yerlde, gtylesl^nd, PTpde |»a|rke, 
 Glasteyard, cum suis pertinentjis, parcellas MftPe™ 
 de Hockpford, in dipto Cpmitatp Pevpnije, Updpum 
 pmnibus Grangiis, pommuniis, japippis, braeyis, 
 potnmoditatibps, emqluipentis quibuscuruqpe, pr«^ 
 missis sen alicui inde parcel!?? qpoqpo ipodp speptftP- 
 tibips yel pertinentibus. Quae pmpia et singula px^- 
 jpissa specifipa;ta, in omnibus cpltpris et oppppaeiqpe 
 
 ■^ E Cpliecti, MSS. Joannis Jones, de Fr(inklyn, Arm, 
 f Tl^e Nam^s inplu^ed in the parenthesii i)r« ^irautinj; ia ftiiotfifr copj of 
 tj^ji 6rBn|, in file 9(tme CpUaotip^^ ] 
 
Ixxvi 
 
 iproprill nuper Abba(i«see dioti nuper MonailerU, -a4 
 tJaum Hoepicii suifaut« dissolucioneiu ejusdcm nuper 
 Monasterii, usuaUter reservata et occiipata fueruut^ 
 Tradidit eciam dietus Dominus Rex, per advisa- 
 raentum Cttncilii praedicti, et ad firmam dimisit, prae- 
 ^ato Thomffi de Soulemont, Decimal ^Garbaruin, Reo- 
 lorias l/cclesias Paroohialis de Hockeford, ac Eccle- 
 sioB de Burlescoinbe, in dieto Comitalu UevouiaRj 
 Exceplis tamen, et diclo Domino Regj et Suecesso- 
 ■ribus suis ornniuo reservatis, omnibus g^rossis arbori- 
 bus et boscis, de et super prasjn-issis crescentibus et 
 existentibuS; Ac omnibus talibus et hujusmodi edi- 
 ficiis, infra preoinctum dicti nuper Monasterii, quae 
 dietus Dominus Rex ibidem prosterni ei auferri man- 
 davit, Et Advooaoionibus Vieariarum Ecelesiaruni 
 praedtetarum. HABP-NDUM et tenendum Scitum et 
 Preainetum dicti imper Monasterii ae prscdictas 
 Terras, Prata, Pascuas, Communias Pasturse, Deci- 
 xnas, et csetera omnia et singula prsmissa, superiCis 
 fpeciticata, praefato Thom» de Soulemont et As- 
 fiignatis suis k Festo Sancti Miehaelis ArchangeH 
 ultimd preeterito, usque ad finem termini XXI. anno- 
 xum extuncproxime sequeucium, et plenarie com' 
 plendorum. REDDENDO annuatim dicto Demine 
 Regi, HaeredibusetSuceessoribussuis, XXIII Libras, 
 XII II Solidos et II Denaiios Sterlingorum, videlicet, 
 pro dicto Scilu dicti nuper Monasterii ac praedictis 
 tarfis, grangils, pratis, pascuis, communibus pasture 
 et €a?teris praemissis, praeter Rectorlas et Decimas 
 praediotas, j£XVI. XHIIs. IlD. Et pro pradiotis De- 
 cimjs djct» Rectoriae de Hokeford LX Solidos, Et 
 pro jJi-aedletis decimis RectoriBe de Burlescomb 
 ^rUI, Ad Festa Annunciaclonis Beatae Marj?e yir- 
 grJnJs et Saaeti Miehaelis Arohaugeli, vel infra u»um 
 mensem post utrumqae Festum, ad Curiam praedic- 
 tam, per equales pordonea solvendos, durante-ter- 
 mino pjaedjcto, Et praedietus Dominus Rex vult, et 
 per praeaentes .concedit, quid Ipse, Haeredes et Suc- 
 cessorea sui, dictum Tbsmam de Soulemont et as- 
 igQatos 8U0S de omnibus redditibus, pencionibus, 
 porciouibus, feodis, annuitatibus, denariorum Sum- 
 wis quIbuscunjqMe, de prsmissis, seu de aliqud. 
 jpde paroelld, exeunUbus sive solveudis, praeterquam 
 de reddilu superiCis specificatO) Ac praeterquam d<i 
 
\ IxxtW 
 
 V Solidii et IX denariia solvencii* Aroriidiacotio d* 
 Exon, pro Synodatrcis el Procuratiotilbiis dicfsBr 
 Rectorise de Hockford, versus quaseunque per- 
 sonas, de tempore In tempos, exonerabunf, &o. 
 reparacionem maremium semjier ad onus Dominf 
 Regis durante termtnO preedicto. Et prspdictu* 
 Thomas con'cedit per prsesentes qu^d ipse annuatitrr 
 Eolvet Archidiaoono Vs. IXd. omnes reparaciones,; 
 praeterquam-mareinium tantilm, ad onus dtctl U'homae 
 Soulemont. Et praedietus Dominus Rex vult, et per 
 praesentes concedit, quod dlctusThomashabebit sufifi' 
 eientem beybote, fyrebot, ploughbot, eartebote^ 
 ibidem et non alibi, annuatim, durante termino prte-- 
 dieto. In cujus rei testimonium, &c. Datum apud 
 Westmouasterium XXX. die Decembris, anno Regnl 
 Rejjs HeH*ici:VlU. SK 
 
Jxxviii 
 
 '»,«.; 
 
 Goilectioh q/ Eiecord.^, No. hXXtX. at iM JErid tif 
 g. Collier's Eccles. tiisi.p. 91. 
 
 An trifoMciiioii made to Queen Elizabeth, hy 
 
 ' — of the several Abuses and Frauds done 
 
 unto the Stale in general, eind the Crown, by such 
 as have been employed by her Fath>6r, ^c. Upon ihd 
 Suppression of the Abbeys, 6fc. written circ. A. J): 
 ]569i 
 
 JPart of the corrupt fraudulent and deceitful dealing 
 6f many subjects of ftiis realm, at and Hnce the sup- 
 pression and visitation of Abbeys, whereby the posses- 
 sions, revenues; and treasure of thfe Crown have been: 
 immeastirably rob'd and diminish'd; .td the great of- 
 fence of God, and slander of thes Gospel, and to the 
 fao small impoverishing atid weakning of the Imperial 
 Crown, and utter undoings of a number of your Ma- 
 jpsties p06r tenants and stibjects. Aiid so to the great 
 slander of you<- Majestjr, smd withdrawing of their 
 heai-ls from youj (whose act it iS told them to bfej and 
 so to them it seemeth, beeaijse some of yoiit" seals be," 
 at all or most part of thein; and the confirmation of 
 j?our head oflficfersat the rest^ and 16 the utter Spoiling 
 and uudoing of a nUmbef of leariied persons and 
 excellent wits, who understanding that many 
 before (fiem havfe been thereby greatly enrich'd, and 
 advanC'd : And that the gap thereunto, as unto it 
 virtue, was ihade' #ide open for all. wilhoiit any 
 pimislimenti but rather 6ommendatibns,' were and 
 are still the eHsilie^ overcome by temptation of the 
 ivisd(Jin of Sdfun, theVorid,' ah<i the' flesh, to seek 
 and labor to boconie rich by like wicked wdyes ; of 
 ivhom, as the iiinnber is n6w of late years greatly in- 
 rreas'd, so also deceive they more subtily and de- 
 testiiHy, and in more things than evet" befor«5. 
 
 And here, aftet- sonife farther length of invective, 
 he proceeds io instance in the Reign of King Henri/ 
 theVUIlh the contents of which are; 
 
 tJeceiiful dttd unrighidoUs dealings «/ cind upoii 
 the vtn/Uilioit and suppresnton of Abbeys ^ ^eV 
 
1. Where the images of gold and silveir, and what 
 ^ith ,the costly shrines, tabf^frtacles, altafSj Bind 
 rbod-lofts, and the precious jeWfels of right s(ones, 
 and pearls, &o. belonging to th^ same, and the 
 pixes, chalices, pattens, basotls, Svt^ei'Sj dandlestick's, 
 Opiets, censors, and multitudes. of other t'lGh vessels 
 of gold and silver : Snd the costly altar clothes, cur- 
 taips, copes, v^stnlents, aulbs, tutilcles add other 
 tieh qrnan)ents: and the finelinnen, jett tnafble, arid 
 precious .^ood, bifass, iron, lead, bells, stoile, t%c. 
 And t^e household plate, houshold stuff, bnd furni^ 
 lure of houshold, arrd tho lea>s6s and chattellsf 
 and the horses, oxen, kine, shsep, aiid other' datlle, 
 and the superfluous hotises and biSildings, and niuN 
 titudes of other "tbfngs that belong to the Abbeys^ 
 #ere worth a millioii of gold. 
 
 The sales of the" part whefeof wef^ S6 cunningly 
 made, and the preservation of the" rest "was such, that 
 Four Majesties' JFather and the Crovvn of England 
 had, in comparison, bul mea'n pOTtlons of the same .' 
 of which much was unpay'd by ill dealing nia&y y*3af* 
 jt^fter : for the fin-ding out of vrhicb* and punishing 
 the great deceit and fraud, theft* Was not, then, 
 neither hath their been at any time; since (for the 
 iike evils afterwards also cowimitted to this day) any 
 good order or dfligent labor taken, but let pass, as 
 tbo' to find out and punish siich wickedness Were" 
 no profit to the Prince and Crown, or good service 
 fo God. All which have been the e^i'silier let slip,- 
 because perhaps some of 'em that should have (been) 
 pnriish'd under the Pdnee, might wlso be partly 
 guilty. 
 
 2. item. Whereas diverge of the visitoi's aiid sUp- 
 pfess^prs, had afterwards yearly allowance of fees,- 
 annuitlie*, corodies, &o. granted by the^ Abbies to 
 themselves, their servants and friends ; was it likely 
 that they came by them without fraod ? 
 
 3. The most part of the evi^encies of Abbies and 
 NtiJifieries were piifer'd away, sold arid lost, as herein 
 following under the title of your Majesties lime morcf 
 
 -^ plainly appears. i t. t, 
 
 4. Manners, lands, and tenements, Snd olhei* h#^ 
 reditamenls were often sold at under yearly r^nW 
 bj many subtle deceits and frauds^ 
 
5 MAtiy lands and (enfenjeiita, &t. were lomeliiri* 
 Sold with (he appottenanees &t Ibe old yearly rentss 
 iJut whete the woods were undervalued, as often they 
 uerej the same *vent firom the Kfng without re- 
 Cotripetice. i 
 
 6. Mahhbips, land&dnd tehfemetils, &c. sold to di- 
 Verse* And after the woods were fell'd and sold, and 
 the rents enhanc'd, or for great fines leas'd Out for 
 tnany years, then the same inannots were ireturn'd td 
 the King in exchange for other lands, that had plenty 
 of woods, and were nneiihanc'd and unleas'd in all oi" 
 in part, of the leases were neaf expired.^ 
 
 7. Much latids and teneinentSj fttid triany gtejat 
 iiioodsand other het-editametits were then sold away^ 
 *Fhere the money for the satne was not paied many 
 years aftel* the due time of payment. 
 
 Deceits in the Reign o/KiNG Edward THE SlXTit^ 
 your Majesties Brothet. 
 
 Exchanges more than in Kirig JSenry'a time, &nd[ 
 almost as tad, whereby the rents of tnany ofeirt 
 must needs decay iii a -gireat p&ft) t^heb that teaseei 
 shall end, that \^ere trade by the ejcchangefs, Or when 
 the bonds made to Warrant these rents, shall eithef 
 be lost, forgotten, or not dji tended. 
 
 Much land sold at undet'values by great deceit of 
 matiyt 
 
 Deceit in the short time bf the Beign of QuEEiJ 
 Mary, yovr Majesties Sister. 
 
 Many great gifts, sales alid exchan|;es were thetir 
 wherein was great deceit and loss to the Crown. 
 Deceit in your Majesties lime. 
 
 All or greatest part of the evidences of the tandsf 
 possessions, and heredltatnents of all the Abbies, &c.,~ 
 have by little and little by fraudiilett means been sO 
 pilfer'd and sold aWay, and so dfawb into many 
 private men's hands« that there's almOst taOne ofeM 
 left to your Majesties usej so-that yout- A/Iajesty hath 
 nolhibg to maintain your title, if need so requlr^,- 
 but only your long possessioti and your own records 
 made since the suppression, whereof a niimber ofera 
 be gone, ut patet ifrferi'Uat 
 
 And where some tneii have t)Otight ohly the de* 
 mesne* of a mannof, atid have so pfevall'd by cof-f 
 nipt n cans, that the auditor has put thereto in hl» 
 
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 particular thereof, nomen Mannerii ; or else if the 
 penners of the letters patents for that purchase have 
 corruptly put it into the draught or transcript, and 
 the perusei' overpass it, eithef by too much confidence 
 in the penner, or for lack of time by so slight con- 
 ferring of the particular and transcript, suffer'd such 
 a scape ; And so if the same have pass'd under tho 
 great seal, then is there no remedy, but he must have 
 and enjoy the whole manner, tho' afterwards it 
 appear never so plainly that he purchased only a 
 part thereof. Such be the laws and statutes they 
 say, neither has there been (that ever I could know 
 or hear of) any diligent inquiry made, or labour 
 taken to find out by whose corruption it came, and 
 to punish the purchaser and all his corrupt instru- 
 ments, as the wickedness of the act did deserve. 
 And so as all others might by their punishment b& 
 terrified from that ill kind, and innumerable othei" 
 kinds of like corrupted dealing. 
 
 Likewise of conceal'd lands whatsoever found out 
 and certified by commission out of the esechequer, if 
 the commissioners, through friendship or corruption, 
 have found out Bimannor, or other lands to be worth 
 yearly five shillings ; whereas the old yearly rent of 
 the same was no less than twenty pounds by year : 
 and thereupon if the procurer of the commission 
 obtain it by lease or purchase at five shillings by^ year, 
 your Majesty has no remedy, but he must enjoy it 
 causd pr<Bdicld, notwithstanding the truth thereof 
 do afterwards never so plainly appear. 
 
 And also of many other things, both of lands, 
 goods and woods, debts and other things answer- 
 able in your Majesties Court of Exchequer, within 
 the accompts of' your Highness' Sheriffs, Escheators, 
 and other Officers and other persons authoriz'd totake 
 the same to your Majesties use, if they find out and 
 seize any manners, lands, hereditaments, goods, &c. 
 at a far under rate, tho' it be never so plainly known, 
 they are not blam'd and punish'd for it ; no some w^ill 
 say the officers would never be sued for a pihful 
 hearing. . 
 
 Stately manners, and mean manners, with the 
 parks and woods have been sold given, and other- 
 
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 wise granted, where the parks have pass'd at no rent, 
 and the' woods at no value, a very little in com- 
 panson^ yea and some inannors, &c. where diverse 
 fees btj the l^eepers of the park, of the houses, &c., 
 have t)een deducted, so that the values at which the- 
 ^id'manBorsh*ve pass'd, havffbeen a great (Teal less 
 tlian they aught to have been. 
 
 Item, Diverse of the copyholdexs both of your 
 stately ajid mean manners, which is your best and 
 richest lands, for their small rent be sometimes 
 purchased, sometimes granted in fee-ferm, and 
 sometimes leas'd out, whereby the raannors be dis- 
 membred', your tenants taken from you and im- 
 poverish'd,. and your commons much griev'd and 
 provoked to murmur, when they see copyhold tenure^ 
 (the good ancient tenure of England) whereby the 
 most of them hold, and ever have held their lands and 
 livings, to be (now a days^ made void and of none 
 effect. 
 
 Ilemy Perquisites and profits of the courts of diverse- 
 of your Majesties manners be leas'd out and some- 
 sold away^ whereby alsa the manners be dismem- 
 bered, the tenants and their services had from your 
 Majesty. A matter of great weight. 
 
 Item, The profits of the courts of many of the- 
 mannors that remafn in yoar Majesty be yearly ill- 
 answer'd, and sometimes partly pilfer'd away, and 
 the easilier because the stewards deliver not up yearly 
 doubles of their court rolls, as fey good order they 
 should doe and because deceit is not sought out and 
 punished. 
 
 Item, Many of your Majesties rich woods, with 
 the soils, both notable great and stately, and also 
 both mean and small, some lying and being within 
 the fbrrests, chases, partes, commons,. &c. and other 
 some within the late demesnes, or proper Occu- 
 pation of Abbots, Priors, Nuns, &c. or of other 
 former owners of castles, honours, lordships, man- 
 ners, lands, tenements, and hereditaments,* com- 
 mon to your Majesties ancestors and to yourself, 
 which never yfelded any yearly rent, except some 
 
 • He means most probably the ITonorurs, Castles, Lordships, &c. taken 
 from the Bishops' Sees, and vested in the Crown l»y an Act of Parliament,, 
 made in the first Year ol this Queen's reign. 
 
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 iTifle for the herbage, or pawnage, being kept for 
 royal and stately pleasure, and common and domes- 
 tical profit, have been sold away for little or nothing 
 in comparison, and some part of them letten out to 
 no common benefit or particular profit for your Ma- 
 jesty, because the rents be small, and the woods are 
 suflfer'd to be spoil'd, utpaiet inferiibs. 
 
 After recital of several other frauds too 'long to 
 mention, he draws towards a conclusion in this 
 manner. Tour Majesty, says he, would wonder if 
 you knew how much I have been malign'd re- 
 proach'd, brow-heaten, and pursued with ill offices 
 for ray plainess against this mismanagement. At 
 wtich your Majesty may be the more surpriz'd, 
 because some of'em bear great shew and name of 
 good men, anc^ Gospellers.: but alas piteous ones, 
 Ood amend them,iind us all. 
 
 He that gave in this information owns himself a 
 professor of the Gospell, that is a Protestant, and 
 that he was in a post of authority : And since he 
 brings in so higb a charge against the courtiers and 
 officers of the Crown, the reader needs not be sur- 
 prized to find his name conceal'd. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
INDEX* 
 
 Th4 Roman Numerals refer to the Preface and Appendix. 
 
 ABBOT, WILLIAM, 81 
 Abbot), manner of electing, V 
 
 Parliamentary, 45 
 
 Abbots-Bickington, 31 
 AbbotsJiam, 48, 81 
 Abraham, John, 47 
 Abree, Jane, 114 
 Adam, Abbot of Ford, 51, 53 
 
 Abbot of Tor, 61 
 
 Adams, Prior of Pilton, 127 
 
 Adelicia, 49 
 
 Agnes, AbbMS of Sion House, 146 
 
 AUworth, 18 
 
 Albans, St. 29 
 
 Albo, Robert de, 144 
 
 Albreda, 49 
 
 AJday, William. 128 
 
 Aldred, Abbot of Tavistock, 41 
 
 Alexius' St. Hospital, 93 
 
 Alford, William, 73 
 
 Alfoi-de, Richard, 58 
 
 Aimer, Abbot of Tavistock, 40 
 
 Alneto, Ricardus de, XXI 
 
 Alphington, 8 
 
 Aire, 26 
 
 Alured, Prior of St. James's, 21 
 
 Abbot of Tavistock,'42 
 
 Alwington, 81, 103 
 
 Alyn, John, 38 
 
 Amicia, Countess of Devon, 71 
 
 Andover, John, 128 
 
 Anetote, 36 
 
 Auselm, 2. II, III 
 
 Ansgot, III 
 
 Anthony, St. 37 
 
 Anthony, Prior of Plympton, 31 
 
 Anton, 47 
 
 Antonine's St. Church, 33 
 Antony, XXX, et seq. 
 Antony Church, 33 
 Appildereslade, 36 
 Apulia, Bp. Simon de, 3 
 Aquebatdi, 84, 85 
 Arcedeakne, Sir Odo Le, 43 
 Archpriest, 43, 133, 134 
 Articumb Church, LV 
 Arundell, 79 
 
 Jane, 114 
 
 Aserton, 19 
 
 Ashpruigton, 108, 109 
 
 Asterege, John, 62 
 
 Athelstari' s, 64 
 
 Alfemore, Andrew, 89 
 
 Aubert, Bp. of Avranches, 146 
 
 Aucneye, Simon de, 127 
 
 Avenel, William, .31 
 
 Avery, William, 68 
 
 Aueton, 63 
 
 Augustinus, Prior of St. James's, 
 
 22 
 Auliscombe, 76, XXXII, et seq. 
 Auiicell, Richard, 47 
 Aunger, Margaret, 113 
 Axemuie, 148 
 Axmenstr, 58 
 . Axminster Church, 59 
 AXMOUTH, 148 
 Axworige, John, 47 
 Aylescombe, 76 
 Aysheclyst, 63 
 Ayshton, 19 
 Ayssheforde, Elena, 114 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Bacchus St. 107 
 Bagwell, Henry, 62 
 Bakewell, Richai'd, 131 
 Baldwin, Abbot of Ford, 50 
 
 , Prior of Plympton, 31 
 
 , Abbot of Tavistock, 41 
 
 , Earl of Albemarle, XIX 
 
 Bampton, 73 
 
 Banham, Richard, 45. XXI. et 
 
 seq. 
 Barley, 12, XXX, et seq. 
 Bamastapol, 21 
 BARNSTAPLE PRIORY, 124, 
 
 L 
 Bartliolomew, Archdeacon of 
 
 Exon, 112 
 
 , Bp. of Exeter, 50 
 
 Bastcombe, Baldn'in, 89 
 Bate, Thomas, 54 
 Batekescurgh, 68 
 Batokeweye. William, 130, 131 
 Battle, Abbots of, 3 
 Baunton, 8 
 Beaghe. William, 63 
 Beallthieng, 36 
 Bear-Inn, Exeter, 48 
 Beauchamp, Mary, 114 
 
 , Sii- Robert, 105 
 
 Beaumont, AVilliam, 80 
 
 Bee Abbey, 10 
 
 Becdenne. Robert de, 11 
 
 Becket, William, 7 
 
 Bedford, Francis Earl of, 12 
 
 Bedford, John, 33 
 
 Beer, for the Nuns of Canons- 
 
 lelgh, ordered by Bp. Grandis- 
 
 son, to be strengthened, 113. 
 Belle Campo, Su- Robert de, 
 
 105 
 Bemell, Stephen, 47 
 Benett, John, 47, 76 
 Bennett, Elizabeth, 18 
 Benselyn, William, 120, 123 
 Bercle, David, 32 
 Bere, Nectamis, 81 
 Beringdona, 36 
 Berkedene, John, 62 
 Berstok, 18 
 Bewmont, John, 128 
 Biclieton, 114 
 Bideford. 81 
 
 Billeyo, Gilbert dr, 122. 
 i^indon Abbey, 55 
 
 Bishop, his authority over the 
 
 Religious in Iiis Diocese, II 
 , his visitatorial power over 
 
 tlie Religions Houses, II) 
 Bittendene, Richard de 105 
 Blackawton, 34, 63, XXXII, et 
 
 seq. 
 Blake. Eleanor, 116 
 Blancheville, Galfridus de, 56 
 Blondy, Bp. 56 
 Bloyhon, Marcella, 17 
 Blundon, Robert de, 31 
 Boclond, LVII 
 Bodmin, 28, 81 
 Bokelond, John, 75, 89 
 Bolchill, Jolm, 96 
 Bolham, 76 
 Bon, Walter de. Ill 
 Bonchedonn, 37 
 Bond's, Jolm, 108 
 Bonet, Henrv, 89 
 Bonville, Sir William, 59 
 Bonus, Robert, 43 
 Boreman, William, 76 
 Borington. 48, XXX^ et seq. 
 Botham, 19 
 Bottockishide, 33 
 Bouges, Micliael, 108 
 Bouude, Alice, 114 
 Bourgeanyll, John de, 11, 14 
 Bourheye, 76 
 Bours, Adam de, II 
 Bowerhays, 76 
 Bowji-er, Jane, 114 
 Boys, Robert, 32 
 Bradeford, 18 
 Bradeham, 2, 8 
 Bradeworth, LVII 
 Bradeworthy, 63 
 Bradfoi-d, Mabillade,116 
 Brafford, 81 
 Brampford Speke, 7, 8 
 Bramston, Roger, 89 
 Branescombe, Richard, 57 
 Brantyngham, Bp. 5, 22, 39, 48, 
 
 62, 108, 128, 149 
 Braos, William de, XIX 
 Brastone, 36 
 Bratton, 34, 36 
 
 , Agnes, 115 
 
 Braybrooke, Nicholas, 21, 67- 
 Brechqn, John de, 5 
 Bredon, Richard, 32 
 
INDEX, 
 
 Bregge, Robert. 6 
 Brene, Sir Guj de, 130 
 Breut, 68 
 Brente, Benedict, 131 
 
 Drentor, XXIX, at seq, 
 
 Breonford, 81 
 
 Brewer, Bp. 3, 16, 28, 77 
 
 , Wiliiam Lord, 16, 60, 75 
 
 Briant, Sir Guy de, 130 
 
 Brianus, Abbot of Tor, 61 
 
 Bridestovv, 114 
 
 Bridgewater, John, 54 
 
 BrigStley, 49 
 
 Brioniis Baldwin de, 49 
 
 Britestowe, 34 
 
 Brithwold, 41 
 
 Briwerr, William, XIX 
 
 Brixham, 108 
 
 Brixton Chapel, 33 
 
 Broadhembry, 76 
 
 Broderidge, John, 97 
 
 Brok, 37 
 
 Brokenljorwe, Thoma<!, 127 
 
 Bronescombe, Bp. 13, 17, 23, 24, 
 42, 51, 71, 72, 77, 81, 83, 94, 
 101, 102, 107, 129, 140 
 
 Brooke, Jolin, 74 
 
 Bronygesh^, 54 
 
 Brugis, Richard de, 31 
 
 Brundon, John, 72 
 
 Bnishfori, 81 
 
 Bruton, Juliana de, 16, 17 
 
 Bryan, John, 131 
 
 Brydgeman, Edwai-d, 48 
 
 Brygeman, Thomas, 62 
 
 Biyfon, John. 72 
 
 BUCKFASTLEIGH, 67 
 
 Buckfastre, Nicholas, 47 
 
 BUCKLAND ABBEY, 71 
 
 Buckland Brewer, 63, 77 
 
 • , Prebend, 150 
 
 Budlegh, 143, 145 
 
 , East, 69 
 
 , Vicar of, 17 
 
 Bueys, Orgerius, 144 
 
 Burdeaux," William, VII 
 
 Burghe, Isabella, 17 
 
 Burke, Edmund, his Opinion on 
 the supposed Vices of tlie Re- 
 ligious, VII 
 
 Burlescombe, 114 
 
 • , Alexander, 75 
 
 , William Clavill, Lord of, 
 
 112 
 
 Burn, William de, 4 
 
 Burnet, Bp. admits the genei'al 
 
 Innocence of the Religious, 111 
 Burstok, 54 
 
 Walter, 53 
 
 Busies, Robert de, XX 
 Bykeley, 73 
 
 Bytedene, William de, 22 
 Bytton, Bp. 21, 94, 99, 141 
 Cabell, John, 58 
 Cadbury, 8, 9, 
 
 , Vicar of, 3 
 
 Cade, Richard, 62 
 Calwodeleigh, Family, 102 
 Campell, Robert, 42 
 Campo, Arnulphi de, 119 
 CANONSLEIGH NUNNERY, 
 
 112, 16, XLVlll, LXXII, 
 
 LXXIII, LXXV 
 Cantelbyry, William, 5 
 Cara Villa, Peter de, 147 
 Carewe, 79, 139 
 
 , Agnes, 18 
 
 -, Elizabeth, 114 
 
 , Sir Gedrge, IS, X 
 
 , Joanna, 139 
 
 , Mary, 18, X 
 
 , , Thomasine, IS 
 
 Carre, Richard, 125 
 
 CARSWELL PRIORY, 14!^ 
 
 Carswell, 26, 27 
 
 Cartaret, Radulphns de 147 
 
 Carter. John, 12, 47 
 
 Gary, Sir George, 64 
 
 , Bp. James, 64 
 
 -, Richard, 125 
 
 ■, Bp. Valentine, 64 
 
 Castello, John de, 94 
 
 Castle of Exetiei-, Chapel of, 31 
 
 Catherine's, St. Nunnery, 19 
 
 Cavelynche, XXX, et seq.J 
 
 Cawe, John, 128 
 
 Celestine, II, Pope, 41 
 
 Cei-de, 77 
 
 Cliambei-non Family, 119 
 
 Champeaux, Robert, 42, XX 
 
 Champerrion, Katharine, 109 
 
 Champpmown, IS 
 
 Champernowne, Sir Ricta-d, 120 
 
 , Thomas, 121, 12;? 
 
 Chard, Thomas, 89, 102 
 Chai-dc, Thomas, 53, 54 
 Charleton, Williain, 12* 
 Charmouth, 54 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Cheemy, William de, XX 
 Chelfliam, Rftlph, 125 
 CliepjTi, 114 
 Chester, William, 47 
 Chichester, Sir John, 128 
 
 , Richai-d de, 67 
 
 , Thomas, 128 
 
 Chorum regere, 85 
 
 Chiystowe, 15 
 
 Chubbe, John, 42 
 
 Chudlegh, 91 
 
 Chudlejr, Elizabeth, 115 
 
 CHULMLEIGH PREBENDS, 
 
 loO 
 Churchstowe. 68 
 Churstowe, John de, 67 
 Chylheglys, 53 
 
 Clare, Latly Matilda de, LXXIII 
 Clare Portion, 22 
 Clavill, William, Lord of Bur- 
 
 lescombe, 112 
 Clawton, 116 
 Clement, IV, Pope, LX 
 Clement, Thomas, 62 
 Clestina, Eliseus, 54 
 Cliftord, Lord, II, 83 
 Clifton, 8, 125 
 Clist Folneson, 24 
 Cloxton, 18 
 
 Chilli, Monastery of, 21 
 Clyflon, 108 
 Clyst, 19, 3a, 97 
 Clyston, 146 
 (^obe.legh, 8 
 Coekespiite, 18 
 Cockington, 63 
 Cockyspilt, 19 
 Coffin, James, 38 
 Coke, Vincent, 131 
 
 , William, 109 
 
 Coker, Edmund, 109 
 Cokeswell, Hugh de, 57 
 CokvsAvell, John de, 57 
 Cole, Barnard, 32 
 Cole, le, 37 
 Colebroche, 2 
 Colebrok, 54 
 Coleridge, 26 
 Coleton, 63 
 Coleton Rawleigh, 76 
 Colevill, Ricardus de, XXI 
 Colewode, 37 
 Collet, Dr. Richard, 45 
 Colompton, 73 
 
 Columbariis, Aleanora de, 94 
 
 , Sir Philip de, 94 
 
 Columbers Family, 95 
 Columbers, N. de, 10 
 Colyford, John, 96 
 Combe, 8, 37 
 Combe, Robert, 96 
 
 , Rowaldone, 36 
 
 Conkft, Robert de, 107, 108 
 Cono, 1, 4 
 
 Cookes Rewe, Exeter, 38 
 Coombe, 26 
 
 Cornewayll Family, 119 
 Cornewode, 36, XXX, et seq. 
 Gorneworlhy, 108 
 Cornish, Thomas, 89 
 Cornutus, Roger, XXI 
 Cornwall, Alan de, 41 
 
 • , AVilliam of, 57 
 
 Cornwood Nunnery, 16 
 
 CORNWORTHY PRIORY, 116 
 
 Cornworthy, 109, 116 
 
 Coswell, R'ichard, 146 
 
 Cosyns, John, 54 
 
 Coteleg, 22 
 
 Coterel, Juhn, 89 
 
 Cothelegh, 23 
 
 Courtenay Family, 13, 50, ISO 
 
 Courleuay, Agnes, 13 
 
 , Henry, Marquess of Exeter, 
 
 69, 119 
 
 ■ , Hugh, Lord, 13 
 
 . Hugh, Earl of Devon, 130 
 
 , Sir Hugh de, 139 
 
 , John, Lord, 10 
 
 , Jolm de, the Foppish Abbot 
 
 of Tavistock, 43 
 
 , John de, 100 
 
 , Isabella de, 100 
 
 , Peter, Bp. 92 
 
 , Robert, 10 
 
 ■ , Robert, Viscount, 68 
 
 COAVIC PRIORY, 10, XXIV. 
 
 XXX. et seq. 
 
 , Manor, 14 
 
 Cowle, 23 
 
 , John, 68 
 
 Cowystone, Sabina, 114 
 
 Cras, John, 61 
 
 CREDITON COLLEGIATE 
 
 CHURCH of, 24 
 Credifon Marsh, G9 
 
 , Park, 69 
 
 Creed, Ivota, 18 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Crewmnake, Hinfj-de, 112 
 Ciidie, 26 
 
 Ciievebert, William 6e, Xxt 
 Cnka, Williaiijide»5l 
 Cristenest(iw6) 14, XXX^ et Set^i 
 Cioll, Bei'tram d6» XX 
 Cromw^lh Sii* Thotiia^) Lord 
 
 Essex, 109, 1 10, HI 
 Crosse, La, 26 
 Crosse'^rk, IS 
 CiUkei'De, TrystratUi Sf 
 Geyevt 'Thoitiai, 39 
 Crytiii, fti(9iai'd, 73 . 
 CryspyUi 'Thomas, 44 
 CullomplOili 2, 8 
 
 , William, 6, 7 
 
 Cuilyng, Thomas, 44 
 CufflWiills Robert de* 4 
 Cuntebet-ei 54 
 
 CurCeyO, Nicholas de, l2Cf 
 
 — i, Robert de, 121. 122 
 
 Curgh, 81 
 
 CUi'tipalaliO, Theobald de, 124 
 
 Dabeiombe, 63 
 
 baeus, Robertas, xxt 
 
 Dad(}omb«, 63 
 
 Dalyngton, Joim, 7 
 
 Bane, 36 
 
 DaoyeljW alter, 131 
 
 Dai'tiiigtofl, U9 
 
 Dartmoor, XVllt 
 Dartmouth* 63 
 David, John, 32 
 Deans Riirftl, 134 
 Demond, Robert, 32 
 Denbavvde, Robert, 32 
 DeHbUry, XXX, et Sedr 
 Dftne, 33 
 
 f cue, Prebend, 136 
 Bene, Thomas, 22 
 Denenebui'i, 48 
 Denlyth, Thoinas, §1 
 Dennis, Robert, 69 
 
 , 8ii' Thomas, 6*J 
 
 Deiiys, Pftbetid, 150 
 Deriys, Sir ThottlaS, 9 
 Derke, Johh. 32 
 Oeriieham, Robei't, 73, f 4 
 pertemev, 73 
 
 Oevort, ThortjasEafl nf^ 13 
 DevoHiuSi ioattiies. 50 
 DiriiWt, Isabella, lOO 
 Dodirrooke, as 
 
 tiodeton, 76 
 Dodiugtoii, 76 
 bottgA, John, 68 
 DOMtNICAN CONVENtj itt 
 
 fiXETEjtj 101 
 Douesford, 113 
 ]!)0]iesidioki 37 
 bottewAldeshaiUj i6 
 Dottne, Gabriel, 63 
 tlontieford, 114 
 Cottriesfordi 23 
 fiottyilgtohi Williaitt, 54 
 bormef j Robert, 148 
 boiiuebajlt, William, II 
 DoWnOj 36, 69 
 ^ — ^, Chureh, 68 
 fiowrysshe, Johil, 96 
 brake, Sir I'rahcis, 73 
 brokeisfofd, John, Bpi 4 
 
 Dud man, Walter^Sg 
 Duke, RiehaM, 145 
 builtOrij Thomas, 73 
 buioiid, Agnes, 114 
 DUNKfiSWELL ABBEY, ?5, 
 
 XXXlIj, et seq. 
 fiunkeswel, 16 
 -— i Old, 78 
 tiuuuej Gabrlelj 68 
 fiunsfbrd, 114^ LXXtt 
 Dufaildus, de St. Stephi»il(*« It 
 Dyare, Thomas, 62 
 byeherj William, 89 
 iJyere Lattdsj 19 . 
 Dynham, AVisiaj 116 
 ~ , Sir Jeffef y, 79^ 
 
 ■ — , Thomasiiia, lie 
 bynytigton, johrl, 44 . 
 fibbeswortbj Williim, is 
 feckebokelond, 33 
 Edelmetotlj Lltl < 
 
 EdgeumbeFamiifj 116 ^ 
 
 -^, Sit Pfeis, m- Peter, lo?,- 
 109, no, ni 
 
 . Sif itiehsidjllOjlll 
 
 EgidiUS* St. 4f 
 
 fgiosheiU ^5 
 liys, Sobtii 5? 
 
 Mime, Lijj36 ^ , ,,, 
 %as. Abbot of ^ortl, 33 
 tllyotj Williatai Vlt . 
 Emet, Thowas, 62 
 
 Eririton, ttifiliard, 28? XIV, XVt 
 firmington ChUrCh, 109 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Ermside, 36. 
 Esse, 2 
 
 Esse, Richai'd de, 44 
 Esse-waut, 19 
 Estcota,Sh 
 
 Estrepeny, William c(e, H 
 Estwyneshir, 37 
 Ethelwerld, Fomer^ 67; 
 Eton College, t^ imyV 
 Eustachius' St. Church, 43 
 Eustachius, Prior of Cowic, H 
 Evesham, Tliomas, 128 
 Ewias, Sir Robert, 88 
 -^— , Sibilla, lb 
 Exe Bridge, 9, 14 
 Exemynster, 34 
 Exeter College, 70 
 Exeter, John de, 88' 
 -, Matthew of, 5 
 
 Exewic, 10 
 
 Exraestre, Richard, 54' 
 
 Exminster, 29, 36 
 
 Exmoor, XVIII 
 
 Exmouth, 69 
 
 Exwyke Manor, 14, XXXI, et , J^bhn, 121 
 
 Franciscan Order, some particu- 
 lars of, 100 
 
 Franklyq, II, 12 
 
 Freinington, 81, 126, LI 
 
 Ffrens^ie, John, VI 
 
 Ffrerenhaye, Exeter, 93 
 
 Ffrethelsitoc^ 106 
 
 Fria, 'Wiiliain de, 57 
 
 FRlTHELSTOqK PRIOHYt 
 105 
 
 Frog Marshe, 19 
 
 Froste, Robert, XIV, XVI 
 
 Ffrye, Hugo, 97 
 
 Fulchis, Vincent de, 121 
 
 Ffurnariiis, Philip de, 121, 122^ 
 
 Ffarsham, 146 
 
 Ffychet, John, 68 
 
 Ffysher, John, 89 
 
 GABRIEL'S, St. CHAPEL, 140 
 
 Galfridus, Earl of Essex, XIX 
 
 , AbtiotofBuckland, 72 
 
 , Prior of Ipelpen, 142 
 
 Galterus, Arcbdeacon of Corn- 
 wall,- LV 
 
 seq. 
 Famine iu Exeter, 2. 
 Ffarendon, 140 
 Farringdon, lb 
 Fawell, John, 54 
 Faute, Wil, 58 
 Felgheres, Radulfus, 142 
 Fenne, La, 37 
 Ferenhay, Exeter, 98, 99 
 Ffermer, John, 63 
 Feriys, .John, 32, 
 Feversham, Stephen, 7 
 Fisher, Jane, 1 16 
 Fitzwarren, 79 
 Fflede, 63 
 Flor, 86 
 Fforberj, 81 
 
 Gaudeleye, Sir James, 126 
 Gaufred, I. Abbot of TavisfocK,. 
 41 
 
 , 11, Do. lb 
 
 Gaufrid, Prior of Otterton, 14a. 
 Gaumachiis, Imbertus de, 1 25 
 GeflFry, Prior of Plympton, 31. 
 Gennyngs, John, 76 
 Georgeham, 126, LI 
 Gerende, St. 34, 38 
 
 's. Chapel, 33 
 
 German, Gaufridde, 147 
 Gerres, John de, XX 
 Gewyle, John, 22 
 Geytinetone, John de, 57 
 Giffard, William, 67 
 
 Gille, Alfridus. 68 
 FORD ABBEY, 49, XLIV, et Gipthorpe, John, VI 
 
 seq. Glanyilla, Robert de, ir 
 , one of the worst regulated Goddard, John, 56 
 
 communities in the Diocese, II Godwin, Thomas, 38 
 
 , in repute for Learning, IV Gonisale, Richard de, 88i 
 
 Forde, Robert de, 31, 34 Goon, Henry, 109 
 
 Fortescue,*PhelipiJa, 114 Gordon, John de,.4 
 
 Ffovea, John de, 121 Gormingeston, 63 
 
 FowcU, Elizabeth, 114, 115 Gradinton, 37 
 
 Ffranchillon, William, 123 Grammar MasterofOttery, 84, 85 
 
 FRANCISCAN CONVENT in Grammar School, of Crediton. 29 
 
 Exeter, 98 , of Exeter, 95 
 
INUEX. 
 
 'Orandisson, Bp. 3, 5, 14, 22^ 26, 
 33, 43, 44, 61, 72, 83, 84, 85, 
 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 
 105, 107, 113, leO, 124, 126, 
 133, 134, 1, IX, LVIII. 
 
 , Catharine, 91 
 
 , Ewias,-83 
 
 , Otho, 86, 87 
 
 , Sibllla, 86 
 
 , William, 86 
 
 Gre, John de, XX 
 
 Green, William, 54 
 
 -Greendall, Prebend, 59 
 
 Gregory, Richai-d, 47 
 
 Grei, Richard de, XX 
 
 Grendall, 60 
 
 Grepdell, 63 
 
 Greston, 109 
 
 Grett Mede, 19 
 
 Greynfeld, Richard, 73 
 
 Growdon, William, 47 
 
 Gunterus, I, 4 
 
 Gumeye, Simon, 124 
 
 Gye, William, 73 
 
 <}yll, Richard, 58 
 
 Gylle, Thomas, 68 
 
 HACCOMBE, ARCHPRESBI- 
 
 TERV, 133 
 Haccombe, Jordan de, 136, 139 
 
 , Isabella de, 136 
 
 , Margaret de, 136 
 
 , Sir Stephen de, 133, 134, 
 
 136, 137, 139 
 Hackepen, 76 
 Hakepenne Manor, 76 
 Halstock, 15 
 Hamlyn, Henry, 19 
 Hancock, Jo^n, 89 
 Hancok, Nicholas, LITl 
 Hankelonde, 76 
 Hankesworth, Robert, 131 
 Hankherste, Thomas, 6 
 Hanok, 63,LVII 
 Harberton, 69, 108 
 Hardy, John, 47 
 Harpford, 146, LV 
 Harriet, Roger; 148 
 Harris, Edward, 117 
 Harry, William, 109 
 Harrys, Jobn^ 47 
 
 , Richard, S6, 97 
 
 Hartescath, 49 
 
 HARTLAND ABBEY, 79,105 
 
 Harvey, Hugo. 73 
 
 Hasewill, 36 
 Hastings, Simon, 62 
 Hastyng, William de, 95 
 Hatheline, 135 
 Hatherleigh, 48 
 Hawkewell, XXX, et seq. 
 Hawys, Walter, 106 
 Hayn, R,ogei-, 125 
 Haynes, Henry, 105 
 lieame, Thomas; his opinion on 
 
 Mobastick Institutions, Vi 
 Heavitree, 19, 97 
 Hechfeld, 18 
 Hele, XXIX, et seq. 
 Helegb, 128 
 Hel^ug, 63 
 Helfoum, 10, 111 
 Helois, III 
 Hembiri Manor, 76 
 Hempstill, Prebend of, 24, 26 
 Hempston, Arundell, 114 
 Hende, 37 
 Hem7Vl,King,lI 
 Henry, Abbot of Ford, 53 
 
 , Prior of Otterton, 143 
 
 , Thomas, 38 
 
 , Archdeacon of Exon, LV 
 
 , Earl of Hereford, XIX 
 
 Herbert. Abbot of Tavistock, 41 
 , Bp. of Sarura, XIX 
 
 Herderlond, 146 
 
 Herford, John, 7 
 
 Heron, Robert, 33, 47 
 
 Hertecombe, 145 , 
 
 Hertford, Edward, E^l of, 89 
 
 Herwyk, 47 
 
 Hetlifelde, 68 
 
 Heton, Jane, 18 
 
 Hiclyng, Hugh, 131 
 
 Hilary, Saint, 147, LV 
 
 Hill, Johanna, 100 
 
 — -, Robert, 109 
 
 Hineland, 2 
 
 Hooper, Thomas, 73 
 
 Mockeford, 114, LXXV 
 
 Holbayne, CJiristina, 114 
 
 Holcombe Rogus, 149 
 
 Holcombe, 23 
 
 Holmere, Geffery, 64 
 
 Holne, 94 „ . , -n 
 
 Holy Saviour, Church of, 60 
 
 HolweH; John, XIV, XVI 
 
 Hondeslowe, HI 
 
 Honesham, 114 
 
INDEX, 
 
 HonetoD, William de, U3 
 koniton, 76 
 Horse-Mede, 19 
 Horwell, John, SO 
 Houndaller, I^onaid,57 
 House de la, Walter, 57, 59,- 
 
 XLVII 
 Howard, Loix} William, 59, J26, 
 
 L 
 Howe, JoIiii,S2 
 Huffh St. de Quedyoek, 133, 135, 
 
 137 
 Hugheton, 76 
 
 Hugo, Abbot of Hartland, 80, 82 
 Hunteford, William, 57 
 Hurdewyk, XXVIIJ, et seq, 
 Hyde, William, 54 
 Hydon, La, 76 
 Hyll, Richard, 96 
 Hyile, John, 72 
 
 : , Thomas, VI 
 
 , Waiiam, 32 
 
 Jacobus, Sanctus, de Marisco, 21 
 JAMES'S St. PRIORY, 21 
 Jamys, Thomas, 62 
 Ilesnam, 63 
 Ilfracoiube, John, 123 
 llistimton, 36 
 lUisbeiTy, 93 
 Ilminster, John, 59 
 
 , Robert, 54 
 
 Ilsington, 36, 86 
 
 Immoralities, not common in the 
 
 ]VIonasteries, 111 
 Inchewode, 34 
 Ingestowe, L 
 Innardesley, 14 
 " Innocent IV, Pope, LVl 
 Innocent, VI, Pope, 144 
 Instowe, L 
 inwai'dleigh, 14 
 Jocelyn, Prior of Totnes, 107 
 JoelofTotnes, 107, 124 
 Johel, Prior of Frithelstock, 105 
 John's, King, Charter de Liber- 
 
 tatibus Com. Devon, XVlll 
 John, St. de Arcubus, 36 
 John, de Poute Episcopi, 11 
 John, XXII, Pppe, 83, 86 
 JOHN'S, St. HOSPITAL, Ex- 
 
 eter, 93, 16, LVllI 
 
 John's, St. Chapel, Tavistock, 
 
 48 
 John, Prior of Barnstaple, 124 
 
 Jolin, Abbot of Dunkesvvell, 75 
 
 -. , Abbot of Ford, 50, .53 
 
 , Abbot of Hai-tland, 80 
 
 - — -, Prior of St, James's, ?|, 
 
 22 23 
 
 , ' Prior of Otterton, 143 
 
 , PriorofPilfon, 127 
 
 -. , Prior of Plympton, 31 
 
 ■s^^ — , Abbot of Tavistock, 41 
 
 , , Abbot, of Tor, 61 
 
 , Prior of Totnes, 107 , 
 
 . , Abbot of Wellebeck, 65 
 
 Jprljai), Abbot of Tivvistgck, 41 
 
 . , John, 73 
 
 . Richard. 144 
 
 IPPLEPEN PRIORY, 143 
 Ipplepen, 87, 90 
 Isblinclon, Rpbert, 31 
 islyngton, 34 
 Istyngton, 90 
 
 Judhell (de Totues) see Joel 
 Just, St. 34, 36 
 Keer, La, 37 
 Kelleye, Jane, IS 
 Kenefeld, Peter, 93 
 Kengeswode, Ri<;bEH'd, 128 
 Kenue, 15 
 Kentebere, 36 
 Kentisbere, 76 
 Kernil, William de, 143 
 K^rjiit, William de, 41 - 
 -^ — , Ogerus de, 80 
 Keys, Roger, VII 
 Keyser, Richard, 32 
 Kilkenny, Henry, 52 
 
 -. , William de, XX 
 
 Kingsbridge, 69 
 
 King's College, 22 
 
 Kingsware,- 63 
 
 Kitecnol, Robert de, 4^ 
 
 Knoll, 81 
 
 Knolle, Thomas, 63 
 
 Knostone, 81 
 
 Knoudeston, 81 
 
 Kymelonde, 126 
 
 Kyne, Henry, 81 
 
 Kynelaunde, 81 
 
 Kyngesbury, Richard, 54 
 
 Lacey, John, 62 
 
 Lacy, Bp. 10, 12, 17, 37, 87, 92, 
 
 142, 147, VI 
 . his Latin Sermon, 102, 
 
 LXV ■ 
 , John de, 95 
 
INDEX. 
 
 I^ahedrelaiid, 146, LV 
 Lakenhull, Johu de, 127 
 J.allegh, 128 
 LamDert, Wiliiam, 147 
 Lamertou, XXIX, et seq, 
 Lammas Fair, Exeter, 3 
 Lampford, 37 
 Lamport, Richard, 75 
 Lampre, Juliana, 114 
 Lamtride, Crispin, 36 
 Lanante, 25 
 
 Lancastria, John de, 102 
 Lancell, Matilda de, SI 
 -— ., William de, lb 
 Lancelles, lb 
 Lane, John, 62 
 Laafrano, 111 
 Langdon, Steplien, 44 
 Langeford, 106 
 Laaghivvis, 36 
 Langton, William, 37 
 
 Lanbem, 34 
 
 Lanhorn, 33 
 
 Lanhow, 37 
 
 Launcell Manor, 81 
 
 Lawdymei-e, Thomas, 62 
 
 Lawrence, Robert, 96 
 
 Lawrence's St. Hospital, at Cre- 
 diton, 2S, 29 
 
 Learning, State of Monastick, IV Lynador, 18 
 
 Ley, Jolm, 73, 76 
 Leycastre, Riclmrd, 123 
 Leye, Ralph, 22, 23 
 Libraij of Ottery College, V 
 -; — ., Grant of, to the Fraaoiscau 
 
 Convent in Exeter, LX1I» 
 Liddeton, Reginald de, XXI 
 Lisle, Viscount, 106 
 Littleham, 69 
 Livjngus, Bp. 41 
 — T— , Abbot of Tavistock, 40 
 Lwldiswell, 108 
 Lodeswell, 131 
 Lodres, Prior of, 148 
 Lomqnegh, 114 
 
 LondA., Simon de, 143 
 
 Long, Gilbert, 94 
 
 -— , John, lb 
 
 Lorckecombe, 37 
 
 Lovedge, Benedict, 73 
 
 Level, Robe;-t, 144 
 
 Lovepit, 58 
 
 Lovepute, 76 
 
 Lucas. Prior of Ipelpen, 142 
 
 Lucie's St. Lane, Exeter, 93 
 
 Lucy, Jane, 116 
 
 Luppit, 58 
 
 Luxton, Henry, 32 
 
 Lyge,113 
 
 Lechedon, William, 47 
 
 Lechethale, 8 
 
 Lege, Galfridus de, XXI 
 
 Leger, St. Sir John, 64 
 
 — — , John, 115 
 
 Lpgga, John, 57 
 
 Legh, 47 
 
 Leo, X.Pope, 46, XXII 
 
 Leofi-ic, Bp. 147 
 
 Leonard's, St. near Exeter, 28 
 
 Ijeonibua, Thomas de, 11 ■ 
 
 Lepers' House, at Pilton, 128 
 
 —- — , Tavistock, 48 
 
 Lercedekne. Lady Cecilia, 136, 
 
 139 
 , Sir Guarinus, 139 
 
 Lyndseye, Gilbert de, 5 
 
 Lynecombe Manor, 77 
 
 Lynton, 34 
 
 Lytel Hempston, 114 
 
 Lyton Hugo, 125 
 
 Macre, 33~, 37 
 
 Maddewill, 37 
 
 Magne, Robert, 145 
 
 Male, Thomas. 58 
 
 Malmsbury Abbey, 127, 129 
 
 Maneton, 37 
 
 Marazion, 147 
 
 Margaret's St. Chapel, Tavistock, 
 
 48 
 Margaret, The Lady, 119 
 Mariestovve, St. 34 
 
 ■, Sir John, 133, 134, 136, Mai-sh Barton, .34, 38, 39, 
 
 139, 139 
 
 , Matilda, 136, 138 
 
 , Sir Odo, 139 
 
 , Philippa, 139 
 
 , Sir Thomas, 136, 139 
 
 Lesper, John, 22 
 LewySj-John, 7 
 
 Marshall, Bp. 83, 146, LV 
 Marten, Edward, 33 
 Martin, IV, Pope, LVIl 
 Martin, Prior of Plympton, 31 
 Martinescombe, 36 
 Martyn Family, 102, 119 
 — — . Alianora, 95' 
 
INDEX. 
 
 , William, lb. LVIH- 
 
 Martystow;e, 34 
 
 Marwode, LI 
 
 Maty, St. de Marisco, 34, 38, 39 
 
 Mary's St. Chapel, Plympton, 33, 
 37 
 
 , Priory, Scilly Islands, 48 
 
 Mason, George, 28, XVI 
 
 Matilda. Countess of Gloucester 
 and Hertford, J 13 
 
 Matthu, John, 68 
 
 Mattyngo, Genciauus de, 80 
 
 Maugan, St. 36 
 
 Maui-itius Somei-set, 51 
 
 May, John, 44 
 
 Mayden, 1«, Prebend, 150 
 
 Maynai-d, Thomai^, 73 
 
 Mede, Thomiis, 44 
 
 Medehay, 8 
 
 Melan, St. 141 
 
 Merlan, 116 
 
 Mershe, William, 6 
 
 Merwood, 128 
 
 Methe, 14 
 
 Mewy, 34, 36 
 
 Michael, St. de Periculo Maris, 
 143 144 146 
 
 Michel's St. Chapel, 14 
 
 Michell, Thomas, 89 
 
 Midelcote, 128 
 
 Midelton, 37, 47 
 
 Millaton, Cecilia, 17, 19 
 
 Millington, Cecilia, lb 
 
 MUton, 74 
 
 , Abbot, XXIX, et seq. 
 
 Mimminglond, Matthew de, 31 
 
 Minister, 131 
 
 Mint, the, Exeter, 9 
 
 MODBURY PRIORY, 119 
 
 Mohjin. Reginald de, 56, 60, 61 
 
 Molend, 81 
 
 Molland, SI 
 
 Molton, Robert de, 31 
 
 Monckecoln, 149 
 
 Moukencobleich, 8 
 
 Monkewode, fl 
 
 Montacute^ Wm. Earl of Salis- 
 bury, 91 
 
 . Monastery, 149 
 
 Montburgh, 148 
 
 Morchai-d, Margaret de, 17 
 
 Morden, 1-14 
 
 More, La, 36, 37 
 
 More Splct, la, 36 
 
 Moj-esk, 147 
 
 Morevvei;47, XXVIII, et seq. 
 
 Morres Church. LV 
 
 Morteho, 128 
 
 Morton, Nicholas, 1,31 
 
 Morwelham, XXVIII, et seq. 
 
 Mountenay, Theobald, Esq. 87 
 
 Mountjoy, Lady Dorothy, 48 
 
 Mugg, Walter, 28, XIV, XVI 
 
 Multones Awi, 86 
 
 Mychel, John, 123 
 
 , William, 62, 65, 66 
 
 Myllford, Williani, 73 
 
 Mylton, Richai-d, 62 
 
 Mynchyn-Lake, 19 
 
 Mynchynleye, 112 
 
 Nantolio, John de, 22 
 
 Necham, Alexandei-, 4 
 
 Nectan, St. 79, 81 
 
 Netherexe, 8, 9 
 
 Netherhayne, Prebend, 150 
 
 Neulegyn, Thomas, XX 
 
 Nevill, Hugh de, XIX 
 
 NEWENHAM ABBEY, 56, 
 XLVII, et seq. 
 
 Neweton, 36 
 
 Newton, XXIX, et seq. 
 
 Newton Abbot, 63 
 
 Newton, John, 7 
 
 Nicholas, St, 1 
 
 NICHOLAS'S St. PRIORY, 1, 
 69 
 
 , Fair, Exeter, 2 
 
 , Isle, 30 
 
 Nicholas, Prior of Modbui^, 121 
 
 , Prior of Otterton, 143 
 
 , Prior of Totnes, 107 
 
 Nicholaus, Abbot of Forf, 53 
 
 NicoUes, John. 32 
 
 Norbert, St. 60 
 
 Noreis, Robert de, XX 
 
 Northam, 68, 87, 90 
 
 , in Cornwall, 58 
 
 Northampton, John de, 42, 57 
 
 Northerliaye, Prebend, 150 
 
 North Petherw7n, XXXII, et 
 seq. 
 
 Northumberland, Henry Eai-l of, 
 131 
 
 Norton, WiUiam, 62, LVIl 
 
 Nuatte, Roger de, 107 
 
 Nuns of Cornworthy, transgres- 
 sors of Religion, 117 
 
 Nyghton, St. 7» 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Nyweton, 34 Payne, John, 62 
 
 Oakfoi-d, 114 Peckham, Abp. 98, LXT 
 
 Oath, of the Members of OMeiy Peckyngehiil^ Henry de, 127 
 
 College, m 
 DehamptiHi, 14. 15 
 Odo, Abbot of Battle, 9» 
 Okedon, William, VII 
 Okeh^rapton, XXXII, et seq. 
 Olave, St. Exeter', 1, 8, Legend 
 
 of, 1 
 01dam,%, 17,45, 53, III 
 Qlderich, XXX, et seq. 
 Oldeston, Thomas, 128 
 Oliver, Prior of Frithelstock, 105 
 Oiyvei-, John, 96 
 
 ', Thomas, 72 
 
 Orchard, Paul, Esq. S2 
 
 Orchards, first planted, 74 
 
 Oi'chererd, 54 
 
 Ol'dgar, Earl of Devon, 40 
 
 Oi-dulph, 40 
 
 Orey, Thomas, 25 
 
 Organist of Bucklaud Abbey, 73 
 
 Omell, 37 
 
 Osbern, Bp. of Exeter, 2, II 
 
 Osbert, Abbot of Tavistock, 41 
 
 Osborne, John, 106" 
 
 Oskei-vill, Ralph de, XXI 
 
 Osmond, James, Earl of Wilts, 
 
 131 
 Olery, John, 75 
 Otrington, 143 
 Otry, Richard de, 83 
 OTTERTON PRIORY, 143 
 ©TTERY St. MARY, COL- 
 LEGIATE CHITRCH of, 83, 
 142, XXIX, XLVII, LV 
 Ottery Bridge, 29 
 Overheighes, or Overhaye, Pre^ 
 
 bend, 150 
 Oxton, 119 
 
 , Sir John de, 121 
 
 PaJi-iekstone, 68 
 Paga, Thomas, 145 
 Pancras Weke, 63 
 Paracombe, 128 
 Parker of Whiteway, IS 
 Parkinson, Rev. Anthony, 100 
 PaiT, Thomas, 106 
 Pateshull, Simon de, XIX 
 Paulet, Su- Amias, 55 
 
 , Sir Hugh, lb 
 
 Pawle, John, 131 
 Paylierabury, 19, 54, 76 
 
 Pede, William, 58 
 Pedirton, Richard de, 57 
 Peech, Bartholomew, XX 
 Peke, Richard, 47 
 
 , William, lb 
 
 Penelles, Prebend, 150 
 Penington,- Robert, lb 
 Penwyk, 121 
 Pereman, John, 32 
 .Perer, Ridiaid, 147 
 Person, Radultus, 31 
 Pery, Agnes, 115 
 Peryn, Edmund, 47 
 
 . John, 46, 47 
 
 Peter, Abbot of Biickfast. 67 
 Peter, Cai'dinal, Bp.of Prseneste. 
 86 
 
 , Prior of Cowic, II 
 
 , Jolm, 132 
 
 Petei-vcyn,. XXXII, et seq, 
 Petre, Sir Jolw, 59 
 
 , Sir William, 69 
 
 Petrestavy, 34, XXIX, et seq. 
 Pewe, William, 44 
 Philip, Abbot of Biickfast. 67 
 Philippa, Queen, 16. VIJI 
 Pliilips, Nicholas, 99 
 Pilland, 124 
 
 PILTON PRIORY, 127 
 Pilton, 28, 124, L 
 
 , Richard, 128 
 
 Pinhoe, 8 
 
 PirdoCy Reginald, 125 
 Pii-ihav, 14 
 PWt Portion, 22 
 Plantagenet, Arthur, 106 
 Plenent, 58 
 Plympstock Chapel, 33 
 Plympstok, XXX, et seq. 
 PLYMPTON PRIORY, 30. 
 86, XXXIl,etseq. XLVIII 
 
 ^, Prior of, 112 
 
 Plympton, Robert de, 41 
 
 , Simon de, 61 
 
 Plymtre, 149 
 Plymstok, 48 
 Pole, de la, 108 
 
 , Prebend, 26 . 
 
 Pollard, Sir Hugh, 64 
 — ^, Hiich, IW 
 , Sir John, ■ 5.* 
 
INDEk. 
 
 PolkiJ, Maftfai-et, 1 14 
 
 ■=— , Richard, Esq. 55, XLIV, 
 
 et seq. 
 POLSLO PRIORY, 16, X 
 Pomei'ei, Ethelwerid , 67 
 
 , William, ib ■ 
 
 Ponieri, Mai-y^, 114 
 Ponte Robeiti, John de, 56 
 Pope, Thomas, 80 
 Popei', Joha, 68 
 Porta, William de, 1 1 
 Postett, Robert, 41 
 Pothull, 8 
 Potter, Eliseus, 54 
 Poudyrshyr. 3? 
 Potighill, 3, 8 
 Poundstock Church, l3l 
 Pratellis, Adam, 123 
 -^, William de, 144 
 
 Rede, John, GS 
 - — -, Simon, 62 
 
 , Thomas, 106 
 
 =^ — , W, 54 
 Redmaytie, John, 109 
 Reeve, Rev. Joseph, 61 
 Reformation, a temporary check' 
 
 t(J the progress of Literature, 
 
 IV 
 keg6fe Omrum, sefe Choi-uih 
 Regway, 36 
 Relisdon, 2 
 Rena\vd<JD, Sir William. Vicar 
 
 Choral of Crediton ChUrCh, 
 
 XIV. 
 Richard, Abbet of Ford, 50, 63 
 
 , Prior of Plympton, 31 
 
 •^ , Abbot of Tavistock, 45 
 
 Abbot of Tor, 61 
 
 Precentor, sometimes the' head Ridgeway, Sir Thomas, Earl of 
 
 ofa Chapter, 27 
 ■= — >, of Crediton's Oath, XlV 
 Premonstratensian Order, LVI 
 Preston. Matthew, 63 
 Prianho, Adam, 123 
 Primi'Vton, 36 
 Prodoin, Ralph, 93 
 Prust, John, 80 
 Prustcombe, 26 
 Prydeaux, Adam. 123 
 Puella, Prebend, 150 
 Puellanim, Prebend, lb 
 Pupplesbury, Robert de, 57 
 Puxeley, John, 47 
 Pverex, 'VVilliam, 32 
 P'vl, Robert de, 136 
 Pylton, John, 125 
 Pynnoke, John, 108 
 Pyryhay, 14 
 Pythe, John,58 
 Pytmyster, Richard, 75 
 Pyworthy, lOS 
 Quivil, Bp. 98, 99, 113, LX RoUes, Humphl-y, lOO 
 
 LXXiri , Ross, John, 128 
 
 Rachingtone, Sir Robert, LXXlll Roswell, WlllJam, Esq. 63 
 Bttdegunde St. 87 Rothis, Alexander de, 11 
 
 Londonderry, 64 ' 
 Ridgway, John, 109 
 Rlgge, 26 
 
 Rivers, Baldwin de, 21 
 Robert, Abbot of Buckfast. 67' 
 — ", Abbot of Ford, 50 
 — , Abbet of Tavistock, 42 
 '—, of Otery, 104 
 Robiok, 69 
 Robryng, John, 131 
 Hockbeai', 113, 114 
 Rockynham, John de, 12? 
 Rodeboume, John de, lb 
 Roger, Abbot of Ford. 51 
 " — , Prior of St. Nicholas, 4 
 Roggeber, 114 
 Roggcr, John, 123 
 — , Thomas, 68 
 Rolle, Denys, Esq. 143 
 — , George, 69 
 — , Henry, Lord, lb 
 , John, Lord, 145 
 
 Rukenford, 8 
 lliilegb, John de, SO 
 ■'-^, Jiichard de, 12f 
 Ralph. I'rlorof Pllfnu, lb 
 
 ■ , Prior of Plympton, 30 
 
 llame, 47 
 
 firchlsps. 2S, 93 ^ ^ 
 
 Rcdor, li3l 
 
 Rouen, Robert de, 11, 12, V, e« 
 
 seq. 
 Rouges, John de, 108 
 Row-lifls's CbauU'j-, 126 
 Ruan, 119 
 Riidge, Robert, 82 
 RiigeHftvc, Simon, 7* 
 Rujnulrf, St. 40 
 
IINDEX. 
 
 'feumon, St. II) 
 
 Ruinsey, Simon. 128 
 
 Russell, David, 102 
 
 — ~, Julin, Lord, 12, 48, 77) "S; 
 
 •103, XXVIII, etseq. 
 
 , William, Loi-d, 12 
 
 Ruswyl, Awstys, 18 
 Hychai'd, Thomas, 109 
 Ryche, Sir Richard, XUI 
 Ryder, William, III 
 Rye, Robert de, 4 
 'RyngsW^ood, William, 128 
 Ryse, John, 32 
 Sabaud, Peter de, XX 
 Sabinus, St. 124 
 Sachi, 36 
 Sajmpfoi-d, 149 
 Sampford Oourteflay, 15, 49 
 'Sauct& Gemm&, Johu de, 124 
 Sancto Antonio, Peter de, 31 
 Sandford, 29 
 Sarger, John, 89 
 -Saundford Chapel, 33 
 Savage, Ralph, lb 
 •Saverj', Simon, 32 
 Scarlett, Andi'ew, 103 
 
 Scheftsbeare, 63, LVII 
 Schillyngfor, Doctor John, 131 
 
 Scilly Islands, 48 
 ■Scotts, John, 97 
 
 Scytesbrok, 63, LVII 
 -Seals, private of Abbots, III 
 
 Seclusorium, 28 
 
 Secondaries, 84 
 
 Sedile, Thoinas, 144 
 
 Seger, John, 76 
 
 Segue, Gilbert de, XX 
 •Sele, 68 
 
 , Monacl]prum,>Ib 
 
 , Simon, 125 
 
 Selman, John, 92 
 , Nicholas, 31 
 
 Sengetil, 76 
 
 Sergius, St. 107 
 
 Sermon, Bp. Lacjr's, 102, Ap- 
 pendix, 'LXV 
 
 Seton, Christiana de, 17 
 
 Seyak, 47 ■ 
 
 Seymour, Edward, Duke of So- 
 merset, 64 
 
 , Sir Edwai-d, lb 
 
 Seynt, Peter de, 22 
 
 Shabbecombe, 76 
 
 Shal%i, John, 31 
 Slialsliam, Ratlulfus, 1-fO 
 Shapeley, John, 62, 
 Shaperville, Ralph de, 57 
 Shapter, Williatu, 68 
 Sharyseombe, 37 
 Sheare, Chapel, 33 
 Sherbum, W. 51 
 Sherlande, William, 9 
 Sherman, Richard. 5-t 
 Shilden, 76 
 Shildon, lb 
 ShiUingford, 63 
 Shireford, 8 
 •Shoetrugi 37 
 Shute, 59 
 
 Sidmouth, 143, 146 
 Sigadon, 18 
 
 Simon de ApuM, Bp. XLVIII. 
 Simon, Abbot of Dunkeswell, 75 
 
 , Abbot of Tor, 61 
 
 -, Robert, 67 
 
 Sion House, 145, 146, 148 
 Sistricus, Abbot of Tavistock, 41 
 Sithemuge Church, LV 
 Slade, William, 67, 89 
 SLAPTOl^, Collegiate Church, 
 
 130 
 Smith, Oliver, 89 
 
 , Walter, 109 
 
 Smyth, John, 106 
 
 Socii, 181, 133 
 
 , of an Archpriest, (43 
 
 ■Somerset, Mauritius, 51 
 ■Sotana, 36 
 
 •Soulemoht, Thomas de, 415, 
 LXXV 
 
 Southam, John, 108 
 
 , Thomas, lb 
 
 SouthmoltoB, 81 
 
 Southwood, 19 
 ■Sowton. 24 - 
 
 Soyer, John, 124 
 
 Speke Family, 60 
 
 Spersholt, Henry de, 56 
 
 Splate, Richard, 68 
 
 Spore, John, 72 
 
 Sprayton, 15, XXXII, et seij. 
 
 Staflford, Bp, 6, 14,38,65, 87, 106 
 
 Stafforde, Thomas, 54 
 
 Stamel, Walter, 51 
 
 Stanlake, William de, 75 
 
 Staulegh, John de, 137 
 
 T 
 
INDEX: 
 
 Stapeldon, Bp. 25, 39, 42^, 53, 
 79, 96, 105, 107, 111, 113, 
 1-25,130. 139, 141, XVIir, 
 LXXn 
 
 Stentwode, 76 ' 
 
 Stephen, Abbot of-Buckfast. 67 
 
 , Prior of St. James's. 22 ■ 
 
 , Abbot of TavUtock, 41 
 
 Stephen'!, Thomas, 89 - 
 
 Sificklepath, 15 
 
 Stockeiitynhide, 3:1 
 
 Stok, 36 , 
 
 Stoke. 81 
 
 ~- — , Ricliard, 108 
 
 Stokeiiham, lb . 
 
 Stqkeman, Roger, 89 , 
 
 Stone, John, 54i 
 
 , Roger, 80 
 
 Sfoneberge, 54 
 
 Stow^ll,. Johnj Esq. 64 
 
 Stowford, 26 
 
 Sfownahill, 37 
 
 Strechton,.Lr. 
 
 Strete^.. 54 » 
 
 Sturgeon, John, 106 
 
 Sturt, John de La, 31 
 
 Succentor of Oitery, 86 
 
 Suing, Robt. or Lawrence, 4 • 
 
 Sumpter, Dean of Exeter, 67- 
 Sutone, .S.3. , 
 
 Sutton, 36 
 
 • , Henry, 39 
 
 , J»hn, 38 
 
 , Thomasine, 114 
 
 Suyffmore, John, 103 
 Suyng, Thomas, 5. ' 
 Swineston, 36 
 SwithnBj 3*. 29 i 
 Sydemuie, 145 
 Syduam, Eleanor, 18 
 Syndon, Margaiet de, 17 - 
 Synford, 36 
 
 Syuforde, Thomas, 108 
 Talbot, Mathildis,. 17 
 TainartoQ) 33 
 Taraerton, 36 . 
 TAVISTOCK ABBEY, 40^ 
 
 XXVIII, 12, 13, 120 
 -^-^5 pneof the.worst regulated 
 Communities .in, the Diocese. 
 Ill 
 -^- — , the Saxon School at,' IV' 
 -^ — , A Printing Press there, at 
 a|». early period, lb 
 
 Tavy, St. Peter, 48 t 
 
 Tawton, EpiScopi, %i 
 
 , North, lb 
 
 -„.^, jaidliard, 80 
 
 Taylor, Richard, 68 
 
 Tenestrint..37 
 
 Tettwill, 37 
 
 Teynton Episcupi, 72 
 
 Thale, 54 
 
 Theobald's St. Chapel, 115 
 
 Thetford, John, 22 
 
 Thirington,,81 
 
 Thomas's St. Parish, ]3,.XXI efe 
 seq.-. 
 
 , Church, lb.. 14 
 
 , Chapel, Plympton, 33 
 
 Thomas,' Abbot of Buckland, 7- 
 
 , Prior of Cowic, 10 
 
 , Abbot of Dunkeswell, 75 
 
 , Prior of Ipelpen, 142 
 
 , Abbot of Tavistock, 41 
 
 , Duke of Norfolk, 59 
 
 ■-, Earl of Devon, 12 
 
 Thov^s, Roger de, 99^ LXl I . 
 T'iiorn, Robert, 125, UI : 
 Thoi-ncombe, 49 
 Thorverton, Rector of^ 3 . 
 Tbrjsshelst«iie, 34 
 Tiverton, CJiurchof, 22, 23 
 
 r, Matilda de, 94 
 
 Toker John,.72,.7»• 
 TollelJPcl■^orum, 54). 
 Tone, Philip, gO.. 
 Toope, Robert, 73 ^ 
 Topsham Fishery, 22 
 TOR ABBEY, 60, XXXVI„et-, 
 
 seq- LVII 
 Tor, 16 
 
 Torbay, Fishery of, 60 
 Tormebuiy, 37 
 Totenham, LIl- 
 TOTNES PRIORY, 107 
 Totnes, 30, 108 
 TouhlU, Elizabeth, 114 
 Town^tall, LVII 
 Tourbeuyle, Johanete de, Vll-h' 
 
 IX - 
 Tracy, Sir William, 19, 20 
 T-redenhale, 37 ' 
 Tregoney, Richard de, 31 
 Tregors, Andrew de, 133 
 Tremerton, 3ft 
 Trentheful, PhiJip,,4I, .42:. 
 Trewtronk, Isabella, 17^ 
 
INDEX,. 
 
 Tiey, William, 131 ^ Water^ William, VIP 
 
 Tiibus Minetis, William dey XXI Waterfall, 36 
 
 Tridinet. 37 
 Trigal, Sampson, 148- 
 Trisselion, 36 
 Tiissure, 69' 
 Trote, Watteis 131 
 Trowe, MiiTgaret, 18 • 
 Tucker, John, 72, 73 
 Tukebire, William, LXII' 
 Tunstall, 63 
 Turbeville, JAne, 16 
 
 , William^ 143 
 
 Turneworth, 54 
 
 Tybbes, Thomas, 53, 54 
 
 Tydrcombe, Portion, 22 
 
 Tylleye-, Radegundes, 18 
 
 Tynden, 69 
 
 Typson, Thomas, 76 . 
 
 Tyret, John. 89 
 
 Tytenhale, 128 
 
 Tywardi'ayth, 123 
 
 Uffculmy 76 : 
 
 Ugbrooke, II, 61 
 
 Uggeburgh.M - 
 
 UgstoB, 76 : 
 
 Underdowne, John, 7 ' 
 
 Underwin, Ralph, 143 
 
 Upotiy, 76 
 
 Uppetona, 2 
 
 Upton, Robert, 128 
 
 Valle Torta, Walterus de, 30 
 
 Veysey,Bp, 90^92, 117: 
 
 Volant, Johannes, 147 ' 
 
 Vyvyan, Honora,H&; 
 
 Waevre, 2 
 
 ^akeham, Richard, 47 
 
 Walerand, Robert, XX 
 
 Waleworthi, 126 
 
 Watts, rtohn, 68 
 Webbe, John, 76 
 Wedmore, William, 75- 
 Wekei T-boma<^' 51 
 Welcombe, 81' 
 Wele, John, 47 
 Wemby Chapel, 33 
 Wener, 8 " 
 Were,Jlichard,54 
 Werpelisden, William de, 94 
 Werynstone, 76 
 West, John,' 73 
 Westbuiy, William,- V 
 Westcott, John, 80 
 Westfeld, William, 7 
 Westleigh, 115, 141. 
 Westly&ton, 43 
 Westminster, Wil. 58 ^ 
 Westonesham, 36. 
 Westsanford, 26 • 
 Westword, 54 
 
 Whitchurch, 129, XXIX, et s«q. 
 WTiite Friars, Plymouth, 39 
 White, Thomas, 58, 73 
 Whitechurch, Archpriest of, 43 
 Whitmore, John, 75 
 Whymple, XXX, et seq. 
 Whymple Courtejiay, 15 , 
 Wbyte, Thomas, 72 . 
 
 ^, William, 53-; 
 
 Wicceham, 48 
 Wich&, Hugo de, XXI 
 Wllcocks, Thomas, 32 
 William, Earl Ferrers, XIX 
 
 , Abbot of Buckfast. 67 
 
 , Abbot of Dunkeswell, 7^ 
 
 , Abbot of Ford, 53 
 
 W4lkyngt»n, Doctor Thomas, . , Prior of Modbury, 121 
 
 131 
 
 Walsh, Robert, 47 
 Walter, Abp. of York, ,XX 
 -^-, Abbot of Battle, ,93 
 
 , Abbot of -Tavistock,. 41, 
 
 XXI 
 - — , Richard, 106 
 Wappelegh, Thomas, 72 
 Warlewast, Bp. 21,30 
 Warlond,iJil 
 Warr. Lucy, 114 
 Wartiiell, Pi^bend, 59 
 Wai-wick, JiJhn, Earl of, 18 
 -r-^, Jphnude, 51, 
 
 , Son, of Paldwin, JO 
 
 Williams, John, 117 
 WiUyams, William, 47 
 Wiltes^ere, WiUiam, 54 
 Wodeford, Richard, 96 
 WodelondCj 26 
 Wolcampton, 73 
 Wolireehurche Manor, 7^- 
 Wollebnrgh, 63 
 WollfeEwchurche, 76 
 Wolrington, 47 
 WolvestoBi 76- 
 Woodmanston, XXX, et seq.; 
 WDolbproBgh, 6fr 
 
aNDEX. 
 
 Woorfardisworthy, SI 
 Woolgrove, 27 : "'. 
 
 Worcester^ John de, 22 
 
 r,WiHJam,428 
 
 Worth Hele, 37 
 Wortheham, Margaj)et,116 
 Woi-thie, Avys, 18 
 .'Worjrngton, XXX, et^pq. 
 "Wrockeshale, WilUswajvl27 
 Wybbebir, Thomas, 80 
 Wycombe, Gilbert de^ LXXIU 
 Wydemjlej^Majgfuetde, 17 
 Wye, John dc, 6 
 Wyk, 106 
 Wykecombe, 73 
 Wykedavernon, XXIX, et seq. 
 Wykelegh, 81 
 
 Wyll, John, 62 
 Wylsham. Ricliard, 7 
 Wymond, Abbot of TavistotiK, M 
 , John, 32 
 
 Wyngeston, 76 
 
 Wynsor, William, 54 
 
 Wysbech, Nicholas, 57 
 
 Wyslcote, David de, 80 
 ' Wywode, 76 
 
 Tarnscqmhe, 95 
 
 Yarticombe. 146 
 
 Yerde, Matthew, 63^ 
 
 Yerne, Richard, 45 
 (' Yernewode, LI 
 
 Yong, Richard, 63 
 
 Yore, AValter de La, LXXm 
 
 Zouche,79»107j III, 116 
 
 ERRATA, 
 
 f. 47, 1. 4, tor nineteen, read twenty. 
 
 P. 58, las|t lim?, for exeeptk, read receptft. 
 
 P. Up, 1. 14, rwifl, aonoiesse. 
 
 P. 113,1. 7, for porlempntt rea'd Soulemont. 
 
 P^ 117, 1.23, for GOroAcoB, read coicacon. 
 
 Appendix, p. v. 1. 10, for Clyst, read Clyff. 
 
 Isabella de Breqt, occurs as Prioress of PoUlo, A. D, 12SB, in the 
 
 Taxation of Halberton, prefixed to Bishop Bronescombe's -Register, 
 
 ■and should stand-first incite list in p. 17, ante. 
 
 CnUOM, J-RIMTEB, EXBT«H. 
 
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