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Rh Adam, instituted 1277 Geoffrey, died 1304 Richard de la Raye, Instituted 1304, resigned 1310 John Outrel, instituted 1310 John de Martham, died 1344 Hugh of Newton, instituted 1344, resigned 1344 Michael of Northburgh, instituted 1344, resigned 1354 John of Hale, instituted 1354, died 1355 John atte Corner, instituted 1355, died 1361 Hugh of Bridham, instituted 1361 William of Lokington, instituted 1369 John Talworth, instituted 1382 John Dede, instituted 1440 John Benet, instituted 1456 Hugh Clay, resigned 1471 William Blackpoll, instituted 1471, died H74 John Wykes, instituted 1474, died 1478 Edmund Hampden, instituted 1478, resigned 1484 Geoffrey Hemmysby, instituted 1484, died 1493 Edward Wellesbourne, instituted 1493 William Trew, instituted 1522, resigned Charles Chalfont, instituted 1541

Three hides of land at Ludgershall, valued at 60s., were granted by Henry II. to the brethren of Santingfeld near Wissant before 1156, but it is by no means certain that a hospital was actually built there. On other lands, near Luton in Bedfordshire, which were granted in the same charter, the hos- pital of Farley was founded shortly after, and it seems not unlikely that another was built at Ludgershall ; but the only actual evi- dence of its existence is the fact that the mas- ter of Farley in 1296 is called master of Farley and of Ludgershall. All other allusions to the lands given by Henry II. in this place de- scribe them as the property of the brethren of Santingfeld. At the suppression of the alien priories, the lands of Farley and Lud- gershall were granted in 1448 to King's College, Cambridge.

The priory of Newton Longville was founded by Walter Giffard as a cell to St. Faith's at Longueville near Rouen. The lands in Buckinghamshire which formed its endowment were granted to the Norman priory about 1150, and it seems probable that the English cell was built almost at once, as a grant of materials for the purpose was in- cluded in Walter Giffard's charter. Very little is known of the history of this house ; it was immediately subject to St. Faith's, and exempt from episcopal jurisdiction. In 1277 Edward I. sent the priory a gift of two tuns of wine. In 1331 the prior received a licence to go to the general chapter at Cluny with his suite. During the wars of the fourteenth century this priory probably suffered the same losses and inconveniences as other alien cells. It was finally granted to New College, Ox- ford, in 1441. The original endowment consisted of the manors of Great Horwood, Newton Long- ville, Whaddon and Akeley, with their churches ; tithes of other lands, fishpools and woods, and free pasture for stock, as well as