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 A HISTORY OF LONDON Robert de Newmarket, occurs 1288 and 1295 *' William de Pykering, occurs 1305 and 1309 ** John de Wrotham, occurs 1309,^' 1 31 5)*' and 1 31 9*' William de Pykering, 1320 and 1321 ** John de la More, occurs 1321 *' John, occurs 1347 ^ William Syward, occurs 1382'^ John Deping, occurs 1383 to 1396" Thomas Palmer, occurs 1398 '^ John Montagu, elected 1407,^^ but did not accept office John Tilley, occurs 1408 and 1412" — Berkles or Bekles, occurs 1416°* John Rokell, occurs 1448" John Mersh, occurs 1455'* Thomas London, occurs 1464^' and 1475 ^"° — Wynchelseye, occurs 1490^"' Morgan Jones, occurs 1508 and 1509^°^ John Howden, occurs 1518 and 1523^*" Robert Strowdyll, D.D., occurs 1534^*^ John Hilsey, bishop of Rochester, became prior commendatory 1536.^°* He was prior at the surrender in 1538 ^"^ Dr. Peryn, master under Queen Mary, died 15581"^ A seal of the fourteenth century ,^''^ a pointed oval in shape, represents Our Lord on the cross between two saints : the Virgin on the left with the inscription at her side, ECCE mater tva, and St. John the Evangelist on the right with the inscription on the right, ecce filivs tvvs. Legend : — s' conv. . tvs. frm. predicato?! lvndonien' ^ Rev. C. F. R. Palmer, ' Prelates of the Black Friars of England,' Jntiq. xxvii, ill. "' Ibid. *' Cal. of Pal. 1 307-13, p. 159. ^° Devon, Issues of the Exch. 129. " Antiq. xxvii, III. ^ Ibid. 8» Ibid. »° Ibid. " Wilkins, Concilia, iii, 157. '' Ibid. He is also mentioned by Stevens, op. cit. ii, 200, as prior of London, but no date is assigned. ^* Antiq. xxvii. III; Dugdale, ikffl». Angl. vi, 1487, says he occurs 1407. ^' Antiq. xxvii, III. ^ Ibid, " Ibid. ■" Ibid. '' Ibid, and Dugdale, loc. cit. "" Antiq xxvii. III. ™ Ibid. "" Ibid. "" Ibid. John bishop of Sodor, writing to Crom- well in 1538, asks him to remember his favour to him when he was prior of the Black Friars in London. L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (i), 11 80. '»■' Ibid, vii, 665. '»' Ibid, xi, 1322. '"Ibid, xili (2), 809. ""Machyn, Diary (Camd. Soc), 171. ™ B.M. Seals, Ixviii, 40. Another seal '^"^ of the fifteenth century is also a pointed oval, and represents Our Lord on the cross between St. Mary and St. John, in a canopied niche. In the exergue is a floral ornament. Legend : — S CONVENTVS. The seal ^'^ of the new foundation by Queen Mary is a pointed oval. Under a dome-shaped baldachin or canopy of the style of the Renaissance supported on two pilasters stands St. Bartholomew, his head surrounded by a nimbus. He holds in his right hand a knife and in his left a book. In the exergue is a floral ornament. The inner border is beaded. Legend : — SIGILLV COVET SCTI BARTHOLMEI *. ORDINIS FRATRV PREDICATORV LODO. 12. THE GREY FRIARS Of the nine Franciscans who landed at Dover, September, 1224,^ four — Richard Ingworth, a priest, and Richard of Devon, an acolyte, both Englishmen, Henry Detrenizo (or de Trevizo), a Lombard, and Monacatus,^ the last two lay brothers — proceeded to London, where they stayed with the Friars Preachers at Holborn for fifteen days. They then hired a house in Cornhill of John Travers, sheriff of London, and made in it little cells.' Here they remained, with others who joined them, until the following summer, when, their number being too large for their quarters, John Iwyn,* citizen and mercer of London, made over to their use, as by their rule they could possess nothing, some land and houses close to Newgate,' in the parish of St. Nicholas in the Shambles. The spot accorded well with their profession, for it must have been one of the most unpleasant in the unsavoury mediaeval city : it bordered on and soon included part of a lane so filthy from the blood of slaughtered animals that it was called Stinking Lane.^ Once established, they gradually added to their space,' an urgent necessity considering that in 1243 there were eighty friars in the convent.* The close adherence of the friars to the rule of their order in the first years of their settlement in '"Ibid. 37. ""Ibid. XXXV, 88. ^ Moniim. Francise. (Rolls Ser.), i, 493. ' Or Melioratus according to Thomas de Eccleston, op. cit. i, 7. ' Thomas de Eccleston, op. cit. i, 9. They appear to have divided off spaces with piles of hay. ' Prima Fundatio Frat. Min. Land. op. cit. i, 494. ^ Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 432. They are accused of blocking the road round the City wall 3 Edw. I. ' Stow, Surv. of Lend. (ed. Strype), iii, 129. ' Monum. Francise. i, 496—506. ^ Little, Grey Friars in Oxf. 44, ». I. 502
 * ' Ant'tq. xxvii, ill.