him all the goods of the house.[1] ' My lady ' had probably some assurance already from Cromwell of preferment to another monas- tery, and had few regrets in leaving Little Marlow.[2]
She was made Abbess of Mailing
three months later, and surrendered that house also on 29 October, 1538, having pro- fited not a little by the exchange,[3] for the revenues of Little Marlow would only have furnished her with a pension of £4 or £5, while the Abbess of Mailing received an annuity of £50.
The original endowment of the house can- not be exactly given, as no foundation charters remain. It seems to have comprised some land about the priory, and the churches of Little Marlow and Hedsor. The latter was lost at the beginning of the fifteenth century. In 1291 the temporalities of the priory out- side this county were only reckoned at 15s. per annum.[4] The revenue of the house is given in the Valor Ecclesiasticus as £23 3s. 7d.[5] ; the local commissioners a little later give the same total.[6] The moveable goods of the house at the dissolution were worth,£17 0s. 2d., the bells, lead, etc., £4 10s. 8d.[7] The minis- ters' accounts amount to £22 16s. 10d.[8] The revenues of this house were granted to the new foundation at Bisham.[9]
PRIORESSES OF LITTLE MARLOW
A., [10] died 1230
Maud d'Anvers,[11] elected 1230, occurs 1232
Admiranda, [12] elected 1237, occurs 1247
Cecily of Turville,[13] occurs 1256, resigned 1258
Christine de Whitemers, [14]elected 1258, died 1264
Felicia of Kimble, [15] elected 1264, resigned 1265
Gunnora, [16] elected 1265, resigned 1271
Margery of Waltham, [17] elected 1271
Agnes of London, [18] resigned 1291
Agnes of Clevedon, [19]elected 1291, resigned 1298
Julian of Hampton, [20] elected 1298, resigned 1305
Rose of Weston, [21] elected 1305
Joan de Stonore, [22] elected 1338, died
Margery Jeromide, [23] elected 1350
Susanna of Hampton, [24] occurs 1395
Elizabeth Broke, [25] resigned 1474
Isabel Savage, [26] elected 1474
Eleanor Kirby, [27] occurs 1492
Eleanor Bernard, [28] occurs 1516
Margaret Vernon, [29] last prioress, occurs
HOUSE OF CLUNIAC MONKS
7. THE PRIORY OF TICKFORD OR NEWPORT PAGNEL
The priory of Tickford was not the only house of this order in Buckinghamshire ; but it was the only one which survived the suppression of alien priories and became indigenous, during the course of the Hundred Years' War. It was certainly one of the earliest monasteries founded in this county, if not actually the first[30] ; but the date of foundation cannot be exactly fixed. There is a charter in existence, witnessed by Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury, and therefore not later than 1154,[31] which recounts the gifts of
- ↑ L. and P. Henry VIII. xii. 1188.
- ↑ We are not told what became of the other ' pore madyn.'
- ↑ Ibid. xiii. (2) 717.
- ↑ Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.). The property of the priory within the county is not mentioned at all.
- ↑ Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 250.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. iv. 420.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. 421-2.
- ↑ L. and P. Henry VIII. xii. (2) 1311.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Hugh of Wells.
- ↑ Ibid, and Feet of F. Bucks, 16 Hen. III. no. 25 (the surname is quite clear in the first entry ; the Christian name in the second).
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Roll of Grosstete and Feet of F. 31 Hen. III. no. 3.
- ↑ Ibid. 42 Hen. III. no. 13.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Gravesend.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid. Memo. Sutton, 1d.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Sutton, 107d ; and Memo. Sutton, 205.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Sutton, 122d.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Dalderby, 179d.
- ↑ Ibid. Memo. Burghersh, 330.
- ↑ Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, 243.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. iv. 419.
- ↑ Lic. Epis. Reg. Inst. Rotherham, 97d.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon.iv.419
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo Longland, 85
- ↑ The priory of Ivinghoe may perhaps have been a little earlier : but its date of foundation is as uncertain as that of Tickford.
- ↑ Round, Cal. of Doc. France, i. 444. It is a charter of Robert de Chesney, bishop of Lincoln. Reference was made to the same charter and others of Fulk and Gervase Paynell and of Henry II. in some inspeximus charters of Hubert archbishop of Canterbury, dated 1224 (Harl. MS. 2188, f. 125).
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