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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES other small fractions. 1 In 1302 2 the abbot had one fee at Putnoe in Goldington, and one fee at Renhold grange, both of which still were reckoned as the property of Warden in 1346 and 1428. 3 There were some small fractions besides at Northill, Southill and Stanford, 4 and Swafrham Prior in Cambridge- shire ; 6 in 1428 6 the abbot had three whole fees — Putnoe, Renhold grange and Warden — one half in Beeston, one half in Northill, threequarters in Southill and small portions in Goldington and Stanford. The clear value of the property of the abbey ln 1535 was reckoned at £389 16s. bd? The report of the Crown bailiff in 1539 showed the abbey to have been in posses- sion of the manors of Putnoe, Ravensden, Rowney, Odsey, Westwarden and Egton (Northants), and Middleho (Hunts), besides other granges, farms, parcels of land and rents in Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Herts, Hunts, Northants and London, amounting altogether to £428 6s. 1 1 d., after the deduction of two manors conceded to John Gostwick. 8 Abbots of Warden Simon, 9 first abbot, occurs about 1150 Payn, 10 occurs 1 186 and 1 195 Warin, 11 occurs 1 1 99 Roger, 12 occurs 1200-1 Warin, 13 occurs 1204-5 Laurence, 14 occurs 1209-10 Henry, 16 died 12 16 1 Feudal Aids, i. 6. 3 Ibid. 9, 14, 15. 3 Ibid. 34, 45. « Ibid. 19, 27, 28. 6 Ibid. 160. 8 Ibid. 41, 43, 45. 7 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.) Amongst the liabili- ties of the abbey are reckoned : For the support of seven poor people of both sexes in the almonry or infirmary of the abbey, £13 13/. 4^. For the poor on Maundy Thursday, by the gift of the founder, 35/. d. For seven poor of each sex twice a year, 33*. d. 9 Dugdale, Mon. v. 375. D Mentioned in the privilege of Innocent II. (1130-43) (Add. MS. 24465, f. 25) ; and witnessed the Foundation Charter of Chicksand, about 1 1 50. >° Gorham, History of St Neot's, II. lxxiv. (P. abbot of Warden); and Hunter, Feet of F. 8 Rich. I. (Rec. Com.), 5. » Harl. MS. 3656, f.6o; and Add. MS. 24465, f. 26b (duplicates of the same charter). 12 Hunter, Feet of F. 2 John (Rec. Com.), 27. 13 Ibid. 59. >« Add. MS. 24465, f. 25. 16 ' Died at Rochford 1 2 1 6, and was buried there ' (From a list of abbots of this house, compiled by F. A. Page-Turner, Esq.) Roger, 18 occurs 1223 Adam, 17 occurs 1234 and 1242, died 1244 William 18 de Sheldwick, occurs 1254 Alexander 19 de Reynes, occurs 1259 and 1262 John, 20 occurs 1290 Ralf of Harrold, 21 elected 1304, died 1313 Geoffrey of Stanford, 22 elected 1313 Robert of Odell, 23 occurs 1324 William, 24 occurs 1331 and 1346 John, 25 occurs 1428 John Fraunceys, 26 elected 1447, occurs H54 Augustine London, " occurs 1509 and 1529 Henry Emery, 28 surrendered 1537 The common seal of the abbey is attached to the deed of surrender, 29 and represents '« Add. MS. 24465, f. 27. " Harl. MS. 3656, f. 62 (A. abbot of Warden), and Matth. Paris, Chron. Majora (Rolls Series), iv. 227, 390. 18 Ann. Mon. (Rolls Series), iii. 192 (footnote). '» Add. MS. 24465, ff. 35b, 62b. 2 ° Pat. 18 Edw. I. m. 20. « Line. Epis. Reg., Memo. Dalderby, 255. 22 Ibid. 83 23 From the description of the seal once attached to Harl. Ch. 45, A 27, but now lost, it is pro- bable that the abbot alluded to in this charter was Robert of Odell. It is dated ' the seventeenth year of the king' — probably Edward II. 'Dom- inus Robertus de Wodhulle ' is named as the pre- decessor of the next abbot in Add. MS. 24465, f. 30b. » Cal. of Pap. Letters, iii. 222 (1346) ; Add. MS. 24465, f. 30b (William, abbot of 'Helmesle,' abbot of Warden in the ' twentieth year of King Edward ') ; and William, abbot of Warden, dated 4 Edw. III. (earlier in the same chartulary). It is most probable that all these are references to the same person. 26 Pat. 6 Henry VI. pt. I, m. 29. 2S Line. Epis. Reg., Memo. Alnwick, 76; and Reg. Bourchier (from Ely Dioc. Remembrancer, No. 219, p. 179). " Add. MS. 5827, f. 174b, gives the dates 1488 and 1509 for Augustine London. The second is from the will of John Fisher, a judge, who was to be buried at Warden ; but the earlier date, which comes from Browne Willis without reference, seems almost impossible, as Augustine was certainly still aliveini537(£. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii [1], 981). «> Deed of Surrender (P.R.O.), No. 253. Be- sides the names mentioned above ' Helyas ' occurs without anv indication of date in Add. MS. 24465, f. 35 ; ' W. abbot of Warden ' in Harl. MS. 3656, f. 62, under 1225; 'H. abbot of Warden' in 1272, in Harl. MS. 3656, f. 64; and Laurence in Add. MS. 24465, f. 28b, dated 30 Edw. I. 2 " Deed of Surrender (P.R.O.), 253 ; casts of the same B.M. lviii. 42, and lix. 65. The seal of Robert de (Wodhul)le, once attached to Harl. Ch. 45, A 365