the second survey £19 14s. 8d. ; bells, lead, etc., were worth £10 i6s. 8d.[1] The Minis- ter's Accounts of the same year give a total of only £15 7s. 10d. [2]
PRIORS OF SNELSHALL
William, [3] occurs 1219
Hugh,[4] occurs 1226
Nicholas, [5] occurs 1232
John, [6] occurs 1240
Hugh of Dunstable,[7] elected 1251, resigned
Warin, [8] elected 1272
Nicholas of Hanslope,[9] resigned 1300
Richard of Eye, [10] elected 1300, resigned
Nicholas of Hanslope [11] re-appointed 1302, died 1319
John of Conesgrave, [12] elected 1319
Hugh of Leckhampstead, [13] elected 1334, died 1357
Richard de Nibbeley [14] (or de Nuble), elected 1357, died 1367
Roger of Oving, [15] elected 1367, died 1393
John Middleton, [16] elected 1393
Simon London, [17] resigned 1431
William Whaddon,[18] elected 1431
Hugh Fuller, [19] occurs 1461
John Medburn, [20] occurs 1478
John Wells, [21] occurs 1488, resigned 1492
Thomas Broke, [22] elected 1492, resigned I503
Hugh Brecknock, [23] elected 1503, died 1529
William Maltby, [24] last prior, elected 1529
A seal of this priory is attached to the Ac- knowledgment of Supremacy (No. 105). It is in red wax and represents a prior standing with a staff in his right hand and an open book in his left. Legend : s. PRIORIS ET c . . . DE SNELLESHALL.
HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE NUNS
4. THE PRIORY OF IVINGHOE
The date of the foundation of this priory is very uncertain, but it seems on the whole most probable that it was in existence before Ankerwyke or Little Marlow. It was most commonly called the priory of St. Margaret's in the Wood. Leland gives the tradition that it was founded by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, about the year 1160: but a charter of St. Thomas of Canterbury given in Dugdale confirms the grants of William, Bishop of Winchester, who died in 1129, con- firmed by Henry de Blois his successor.[25] The manor of Ivinghoe had for a long time been part of the endowment of the see of Win- chester, even before the Conquest.[26] The benefactors of the priory were not numerous, either in its earlier or later days : [27] in the thirteenth century King Henry III. granted to the nuns the church of Merrow in Surrey, [28] with other smaller gifts, such as an annual fair on the feast of St. Margaret, and ten acres of assart in Hemel Hempstead.[29] There are several allusions in the episcopal registers to the poverty of this house, and in 1277 the prioress seems to have been thankful to be acquitted even of so small a fine as two marks, which she had incurred by privately settling a dispute which ought to have come before the king's justices.[30]
The priory was dissolved under the first Act of Suppression, and contained at that time only five nuns, of whom three were novices. The prioress, Margery Hardwick, received a pension of £4[31] Bishop Dalderby granted indulgences on three different occasions[32] to those who should
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. iv. 234, from Browne Willis.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iii.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. iv. 233. e
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Feet of F. Bucks, 14 Henry III. 4.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Grosstete.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. Memo. Dalderby, 12.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Dalderby, 175.
- ↑ Ibid. 176.
- ↑ Ibid. 192d.
- ↑ Ibid. Memo. Burghersh, 281d. A disputed election.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Inst. Gynwell, 2643.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Bokyngham, i. 414.
- ↑ Ibid. ii. 408.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Gray, 45.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. iv. 233
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. 234, and Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Russell, 126d.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Smith, 371.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Longland, 197d.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. iv. 268.
- ↑ See Domesday translation.
- ↑ The name of Miles Neirenuit is the only one well known in the neighbourhood during the thirteenth century.
- ↑ Cal. of Chart. R.,. 186 (17 Hen. III. m. 2).
- ↑ Ibid. i. 27 (11 Hen. III. pt. I, m. 13).
- ↑ Close, 5 Edw. I. m. 5.
- ↑ Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. 232, f. 2od.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Dalderby, 44, 58d, 368d (1301, 1303 and 1318).
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