Bardney Abbey to the London Charterhouse.[1] Ivinghoe was granted by the bishop of Winchester to the monastery of Ashridge [2]; Bledlow, which had belonged to the monks of Grestain and passed from them to the king, was appropriated in 1413 to the College of St. Stephen, Westminster.[3] Three churches in this county were granted by King Edward III. to his new foundation in connexion with St. George's Chapel, Windsor ; Datchet,[4] which had been given to him in 1341 by St. Alban's Abbey [5] ; Wyrardisbury with the chapel of Langley Marish,[6] which had come to him from Gloucester Abbey [7] ; and Iver. The canons of Windsor also obtained the church of North Marston by exchange, from the canons of Dunstable. [8] All the churches newly appropriated during these two centuries had vicarages ordained at the same time [9]; the Bishop's own church at Wooburn had a perpetual vicar's portion assigned for the first time in 1337,[10] but the vicarage of the prebendal church of Buckingham was not ordained till 1445.[11]
A few parochial chapels for the use of hamlets remote from the parish church were built during the fourteenth century ; but some which are mentioned for the first time in the records of this period may well have been in existence earlier. Thus the chapel of Aston in Ivinghoe, re-endowed in 1340, had certainly been standing for some time ; the chapel of Dagnall in Edlesborough was probably at first a memorial chapel,[12] built by Henry Spigurnel at the end of the thirteenth century ; the chapels of Ditton in Stoke Poges, Fulmer in Datchet, Weston Underwood in Olney, all mentioned early in the fourteenth century, were probably built some time before [13] : it is uncertain whether the chapel of Colnbrook was built or re-built in 1345,[14] and there is the
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Inst. Buckingham, i. 418d.
- ↑ Ibid. Memo. Fleming, 217d (1420).
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Repingdon, 457.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 242-3.
- ↑ Gesta Abbatum (Rolls Series), iii. 1 19. It was granted that the monks might be quit of a pension of loo marks, due to the king for waiving his privilege of demanding a benefice for one of his clerks at the creation of every new abbot.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Inst. Gynwell, 241.
- ↑ Hist. Man. S. Petri. Glouc. (Rolls Series), i. 65.
- ↑ Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Rotherham, 1-7.
- ↑ Pitstone in 1381, Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Buckingham, 224; Dorney before 1337, ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 355 ; Soulbury, ibid. Memo. Smith, lO3d ; Whitchurch before 1417, ibid. Inst. Repingdon, 472d ; Little Marlow in 1403, quoted ibid. Memo. Longland, 189 ; East Claydon in 1422, ibid. Inst. Fleming, 153. Olney was granted to the monastery of Syon in 1502, and Hanslope to Newark College in 1523. Moulsoe never had a vicarage : that of North Marston was ordained in 1335 before the ex- change, ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 347 ; that of Great Marlow in 1494, ibid. Memo. Smith, 65. The references for Datchet, Iver, Wyrardisbury, Bledlow, Ivinghoe are given above, the vicarage being ordained at the appropriation.
- ↑ Ibid. Memo. Burghersh, 351.
- ↑ Brown Willis, History of Buckingham, 76-7, gives the deed in extenso ; the church is still described as a chapel to King's Sutton.
- ↑ Henry Spigurnel received a license for an oratory in his house at Dagnall in 1297 (Line. Epis. Reg. Memo. Sutton, l67d) ; in 1326 a chantry was ordained at his expense in ' the chapel of Dagnall ' (elsewhere called the chantry in the manor of Dagnall, ibid. Memo. Burghersh, I48d), so that it seems probable that instead of a mere oratory he built a chapel to serve for the hamlet as well as his own household. It was still used for the whole hamlet in 1547.
- ↑ A chantry was endowed in Ditton Chapel in 1338 ; Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Burghersh, 351d-353. Fulmer is mentioned in 1349, ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 237 ; Weston Underwood in 1368, ibid. Memo. Bek, 62 ; all implied to have been in existence some time.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Bek, 140.
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