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 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Paternoster, was rebuilt, and a college of five priests established there, which seems to have fulfilled the intention of its founder and become a centre of theological learning."' The foundation of this college led to a kind of appropriation to it of the church of St. Michael Paternoster, the office of rector being merged in that of master of the college."" That of St. Benet Fink to St. Anthony's Hospital was finally eff^ected in 1440."^ In 1445 '^^ Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's appropriated the church of St. Gregory to the use of the minor canons."^ St. Stephen's Coleman Street had been appropriated to the Priory of Butley since 1322. The king presented to it in 1436 on the assumption that it was in his patronage because royal licence had not been obtained for the appropriation,"' but in 1457 ^^^ church was definitely appropriated to the convent, the bishop ordaining that from henceforth it should be reckoned a parish church, with a perpetual vicarage."* The last appropriation of a London church was that of St. Bride in 1505 to Westminster Abbey ; the vicar's portion was to be ^16 a year and a house."^ The relations between parish churches and religious houses caused a number of disputes during the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1362 an agreement was made between St. Botolph's Bishopsgate and St. Mary of Bethlehem about the oblations in the chapel of the hospital;"* in 1364 and 1 374 the priory of Holy Trinity settled with St. Mary Graces and the Minoresses points in dispute over parochial rights due to St. Botolph's Aldgate."^ The parishioners of St. Katharine Cree "^ had been for centuries accustomed to worship at the altar of St. Mary Magdalene in the church of the priory of the Holy Trinity, till the canons, disturbed at their own devotions by the sound of voices, at length allowed a chapel of St. Katharine to be built in the precincts of the priory. Dissension arose with regard to the position of this chapel, and by an ordinance of Bishop Clifford in 141 4 it became a parish church served by the canons."' The vicar of St. Sepulchre obtained in 1422 an increase of his salary from ^5 to ^^20, as his parish contained 2,000 people ; the whole funds of the church amounted to ^60.^ The Prior of St. Bartholomew paid 20J-. annually to St. Botolph's Aldersgate, the inhabitants of the precincts of St. Bartholomew being bound to come twice a year at least to St. Botolph's ; "^ but when the rector of St. Alphage '" Stow, Surv. ; account of Whittington College in ' Religious Houses ' ; cf. accounts of the Grey Friars and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Diet. Nat. Biog. "" Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 274. '*' From 1 3 10, when the chapel of the hospital began to be built, there had been disputes with regard to parochial rights. See ' Religious Houses.' "' D. & C. St. Paul's, W.D. 13, fol. 223. '" Lond. Epis. Reg. Gilbert, fol. 2. '" Ibid. Kemp, fol. 53 ; Jrci. 1, 55. '«^ D. & C. Westm. Lond. B, box 4. '" D. & C. St. Paul's, A, box 6, no. 837. '" Guildhall MS. 122 (a transcript of a chartulary of the priory), fol. 726-33. See also fol. 756 and 859 for the care with which the parochial rights were reserved. '^ Presumably also of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Michael. "^' Cal. of Papal Letters, vi, 157; Lond. Epis. Reg. Stokesley, fol. no, 114; cf. 109 and Cal. of Papal Letters, vii, 46. The full account of a similar quarrel given in Mr. Atkinson's Hist, of St. Botolph AUgate, 35-40, is taken almost verbatim from Guildhall MS. 122, fol. 716 et seq., 760 et seq. For another between St. Martin in the Fields and St. Mary Rouncivall see Cal. of Papal Letters, vii, 238, 282. '" Cal. of Papal Letters, vii, 474. '" D. & C. Westm. Lond. Bj box 2, pt. ii. In 1424-5 and 1434 all the profits of the rectory of St. Botolph's, including a house, were let out by the D. and C. of St. Martin's to be farmed for periods of ten years at rents of 40 marks and ^^24 a year respectively ; ibid. pt. i. The D. & C. of Westm. farmed out St. Margaret's in 1416 and 1484 ; Westm. parcel 9 ; Sacrist Roll. 227