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Rh him all the goods of the house. ' My lady ' had probably some assurance already from Cromwell of preferment to another monas- tery, and had few regrets in leaving Little Marlow. 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, 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. The revenue of the house is given in the Valor Ecclesiasticus as £23 3s. 7d. ; the local commissioners a little later give the same total. The moveable goods of the house at the dissolution were worth,£17 0s. 2d., the bells, lead, etc., £4 10s. 8d. The minis- ters' accounts amount to £22 16s. 10d. The revenues of this house were granted to the new foundation at Bisham.

A., died 1230 Maud d'Anvers, elected 1230, occurs 1232 Admiranda, elected 1237, occurs 1247 Cecily of Turville, occurs 1256, resigned 1258 Christine de Whitemers, elected 1258, died 1264 Felicia of Kimble, elected 1264, resigned 1265 Gunnora, elected 1265, resigned 1271 Margery of Waltham, elected 1271 Agnes of London, resigned 1291 Agnes of Clevedon, elected 1291, resigned 1298 Julian of Hampton, elected 1298, resigned 1305 Rose of Weston, elected 1305 Joan de Stonore, elected 1338, died Margery Jeromide, elected 1350 Susanna of Hampton, occurs 1395 Elizabeth Broke, resigned 1474 Isabel Savage, elected 1474 Eleanor Kirby, occurs 1492 Eleanor Bernard, occurs 1516 Margaret Vernon, 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 ; 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, which recounts the gifts of