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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES 5«- William de Huntyngfeud, occurs 1267/^ 1269 " Robert de Covelee, occurs 1273-4/* 1279" Richard, occurs 1285-6'^ Roger de Baggishouse, occurs 1289 ^^ Richard de Southampton, occurs 131 7 '* Henry de Bedford, occurs 1318,'' and was deposed 1327 ^^ Nicholas de Clifton, occurs 1327 *^ Ra'ph de Combe, occurs 1330*^ and 1332*' Bartholomew de Colecestre, occurs 1333,^ 1340,8= and 1344*=^ William Myle, occurs 1347*^*' Thomas de Sallowe, occurs 1365'* and 1366," died 1 37 1 8* Richard Sewell, elected 1 37 1 *' Richard Aired, occurs 1391,^" died 1400" William Bonyngdon, elected 1400,*^ occurs 1419 °' John Neel, occurs 1420,°* 1426 or 1427," 1439,'*^ died 1463'* John Parker, elected 1463 ^ John Hardyng, occurs 1478, 1485,'^ and 1492^^ Richard Adams, John Yong, S.T.P., elected 1510,10^ died 1527^"' Lawrence Copferler, elected 1527,^** sur- rendered the house 1538^°' "' Stubbs, InlroJ. to Mem. of Ric. I (Rolls Ser.), i,, cxii, n. 5. " Cott. MS. Tib. C. V, fol. 161^. '* Hardy and Page, Cal. of Lond. and Midd. Fines, I. " Reg. Epht. Johan. Peckham (Rolls Ser.), i, 75. '* Hardy and Page, op. cit. 60. " Cal. of Close, 1288-96, p. 49. " Cott. MS. Tib. C. V, fol. 249iJ. " CaL of Pat. 1 3 17-21, p. 205. ^ Cal. of Pat. 1327-30, p. 499. " Cal. of Close, 1330-3, p. 555. " Cal. of Pat. 1330-4, p. 472. »Mbid. 1340-3, p. 12. "^ Watney, op. cit. 291. •* Sharpe, Cal. Letter Bk. G, 202. "Add. Chart. 24581. ' Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 646. occurs 1505 100 removed Ibid. ""Ibid. 261. Ibid. '° He was then ratified in his position of master by the king. Cal of Pat. 1388-92, p. 473.  Lond. Epis. Reg. Braybrook, fol. 337. "Ibid. ^ Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, ii, 417 ; Watney, op. cit. 273. " Cal. of Pap. Letters, vii, 342. " Cott. MS. Tib. C. V, fol. iGb. "' Watney, op. cit. 270. °°Lond. Epis. Reg. Kemp, ii, fol. I. "Harl. Chart. 44, F. 32-5. ^ Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 646. ™ Sharpe, Cal of Wills, ii, 611. '"Lond. Epis. Reg. Fitz James, fol. 18. ™Ibid. Tunstall, fol. 120. He was bishop of Gallipoli ; L. and P. Hen. Vlll, i, 5427. ""Lend. Epis. Reg. Tunstall, fol. 120. ""Z,. and P. Hen. Vtll, xiii (2), 648. ' Ibid. ' Ibid. The thirteenth or tourteenth-century seal '"* shows St. Thomas the archbishop seated on a throne, holding in the right hand a large cross ornamented with a cheveron-like pattern on the left side, and in his left hand a crosier or long cross. On the left is an ecclesiastic, half-length, in prayer. Legend : — + SIGILL BEAT! COMMVNE ULI FRATRV THOME. MARTIRIS : LONd' The seal of John Hardyng, master 1478,^*" shows St. Thomas standing in a carved panel. 10. ST. MARY OF BETHLEHEM In 1247 Simon Fitz Mary, one of the sheriffs of London, made over his land west of Bishops- gate Street, near the church of St. Botolph with- out Bishopsgate, to Godfrey, bishop of Bethlehem, to found there a priory of canons, brothers and sisters, of the order of St. Mary of Bethlehem,^ whose duties were to be prayers for the souls of the founder, of Guy de Marlowe, John Durant, Ralph Ashwye, and others, and the reception of the bishop of Bethlehem, and the canons and messengers of that church when they came to London. The house was to be sub- ject to the bishop of Bethlehem, who was to receive from it an annual pension of a mark, to be increased as its wealth grew, and who had the right of visitation and correction. Fitz Mary also provided that the members of the house should wear on their copes and mantles the distinguishing sign of the order, a star, according to Matthew Paris,^ red with five rays inclosing a circle of blue. The institution was perhaps never very large. It was certainly of much less importance than the other house outside Bishopsgate. The respective spheres of St. Mary Spiral and the rector of St. Botolph's had had to be determined within a few years of the foundation of the priory,' but it was not until 1362 that the building of a chapel* in honour of the Virgin and the Nativity of Jesus by the house of St. Mary of Bethlehem made an agreement between the rector and this hospital necessary. By the arrangement then made the master and brethren were permitted to complete the chapel, have bells rung there, cele- brate divine service, and receive offerings ; they might also bury any who wished to be buried in "^B.M. Seals, Ixviii, 59. "'Harl. Chart. 44, F. 32. 'Harl. MS. 539, fol. 95 ; Stow, Surv. of Lond. (ed. Strype), ii, 94. It is spoken of as the knighthood of St. Mary of Bethlehem. Cal of Pat. 1348-50, p. 181. 'Matt. Paris, Chron. Maj. (Rolls Sen), v, 631. Their dress was otherwise like that of the Dominicans. 'Dugd.ile, Mon. Angl. vi, 625. 495
 * " CaL Pap. Letters, ii, 273.
 * Lond. Epis. Reg. Stokesley, fol. 87, 88.