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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES shire were added by other benefactors as por- tions with the daughters whom they sent to school or into religion. 1 The churches of Elstow, Wilshampstead, Maulden, Kempston, Flitton, Westoning, with Hitchin (Herts), Inworth (Essex), Clanfield (Oxon), West- bury (Bucks), Harringworth and Wilbarston (Northants) were in the gift of the abbey from the thirteenth century to the Disso- lution ; while Goddington 3 (Oxon) and Tingrith (Beds 3 ) were claimed by it in the thirteenth century, and Halton-super-Hum- ber * (Lincoln) in the twelfth. Portions of tithes from several other churches were paid to the monastery. In 129 1 its income was about j^iio 5 ; at the Dissolution it was £284 125. lid. clear." In 1 31 6, 1346 and 1428 8 the abbess of Elstow held the vills of Elstow, Wilshamp- stead and Maulden in pure alms, and some small fractions of knight's fees in Flitton and Cotes, with a quarter of a fee in Moulsoe, Bucks. 7 In the ministers' accounts after the Dissolution the property was valued at £234 8s. -jd. after the subtraction of some parcels of lands annexed to the honour of Ampthill ; the site of the monastery and its demesne lands being reckoned as £77 17s. icW. 9 Abbesses of Elstow Cecily, 9 occurs c. 11 80 Mabel, 10 elected 1213 (r), occurs 1218 and 1222 Wymark, 11 died 124 1 I Given in the same charter (sec also Dugdale, Mon. v. 190, for a similar gift from Maud de Amundeville). » Feet of F. Oxon, 6 Henry III. 3 Cur. Reg. R. 58, 15 John, n. 10 dors. 4 A pension from this church continued to be paid to the abbess till the dissolution (Harl. Ch. 44, D 35, and Valor Eccl. [Rec. Com.], iv. 188). 6 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.) The totals from the Taxatio here and elsewhere are only approxi- mate ; it is not always possible to find out exactly how much a monastery really received from an appropriate church. • Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 188-9. ' Feudal Aids (P.R.O.), i. 13, 20, 27, 31, 36, 40, 41, 46, 104. 8 Dugdale, Mon. iii. 416. » Harl. MS. 3656, f. 70; ibid. 1885, f. 23b. Contemporary with Geoffrey Ridel, Bishop of Ely, 1173-89, and Pope Alexander III. 1 159-81. 10 An abbess unnamed died 12 1 3 {Ann. Mon. [Rolls Series], iii. 41. The name Mabel occurs (Cott. MS. Nero, E vi. f. 128), with Almaric de St. Maur, who died 1219 (Ann. Mon. [Rolls Series], iii. 55 ; and again Feet of F., Beds, 6 Henry III.) II Line. Epis. Reg., Rolls of Grossetete. 357 Agnes of Westbury, 13 elected 1 24 1, re- signed 1249 Aubree de Fecamp, 13 elected 1249 Annora, 14 died 1 28 1 Beatrice de Scoteny, 15 elected 1281, died 1294 Clemence de Balliol, 18 elected 1294, re- signed 13 1 4 Joan de Wauton, 17 elected 131 5, died 1318 Elizabeth de Beauchamp, 18 elected 131 8, died 1331 Juliane Basset, 19 elected 1331, died 1333 Elizabeth Morteyn, 20 elected 1333, occurs 1351 Anstis (Anastasia) Dene, 21 occurs 1370, re- signed 1392 Margaret Pygot, 22 elected 1392, died or resigned 1409 Joan Trailly, 33 elected 1409, died 1430 Rose Waldgravc, 24 died 1 463 Elizabeth Hasylden, 25 elected 1463, occ. H73 u Ibid. '3 Ibid. 14 Ibid. Memo. Sutton; and Pat. 9Edw. I. m. 15. »* Ibid. ; a divided election, Agatha Giffard se- curing some votes (see above, p. 354, note 9). i" Line. Epis. Reg., Inst. Sutton, 98 ; Pat. 22 Edw. I. m. 10. » Line. Epis. Reg., Inst. Dalderby, f. 273d. Another divided election, some choosing Elizabeth de Beauchamp: on 7 Feb. 1315 (Pat. 8 Edw. II. pt. 1, m. 3) the king commissioned the bishop to in- quire which election ought to stand. Clemence de Balliol possibly foresaw the dispute, for just before her resignation in November 1314 she obtained a grant (through Queen Isabel) that the prioress and nuns of her house should have all the issues of the abbey and its temporalities during the next voidance, and be free of the escheator (Pat. 8 Edw. II. pt. 1, m. 27). The election of the prioress Joan de Wauton was confirmed 14 May 1315 by the Archbishop of Canterbury (ibid.) «» Line. Epis. Reg., Inst. Dalderby, 276 ; ibid. Memo. Dalderby, 379. i» Ibid. Inst. Burghersh, 304 ; Pat. 5 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 19 and 11. ao Line. Epis. Reg., Inst. Burghersh, 3o6d ; Pat. 7 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 21 and 19. Occurs Cal. of Pap. Letters, hi. 412 (1351). 21 Campbell MS. x. 9, dated 1370 ; resigned Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Buckingham, 359. »» Ibid. » Line. Epis. Reg., Inst. Repingdon, 297 ; death recorded (not naming successor) J. de Amundesham, Ann. Mon. S. Albani, i. 47. She was probably the daughter of Sir John Trailly, who founded Northill College {Feud. Aids, i. 40). " Pat. 2 Edw. IV. m. 25. " Ibid. Occurs again ibid. 13 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 21 (July, 1473)-