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 A HISTORY OF LONDON number of names''^ appended to the deed of surrender, 12 November, 1538 ; for in December, 1350, before the priory had had time to recover from the ravages of the Great Pestilence, there had been eleven besides the prior and sub-prior,''^ but the convent at the Dissolution had dwindled to six. Raphael or Ralph Turner,^ who heads the list, and was granted an annual pension of five marks for the term of his life,^' was not the prior, so that the house appears to have been without a head at this time. The possessions of the priory, valued at of ' Chockesmythes ' with a messuage and garden adjoining and lands and wood in ' Wellutham ' Magna, ' Wellutham ' ^' Parva, and Bradfield Combusta, co. Suffolk,^' the site of the late priory of Barham,^' co. Camb., and tenements in St. Olave's Hart Street,'** St. Dunstan's in the East,'' Allhallows Dowgate, Allhallows Barking, and St. Botolph's without Aldgate.'- The plate of the house, forty-one ounces in parcel gilt,'' seems a very small quantity, but that stolen'* a few years before may never have been recovered, and some had certainly been pawned " or sold during the last period of the priory's existence. A seal of 1350 " bears a cross pattee between two crescents and two stars of six points within a carved gothic quatrefoil. Legend : — SIGILL COMVNE. DOMVS STE CRUCIS LONDON. A seal of the sixteenth century ^ represents Our Lord on the Cross, surrounded by the eleven disciples who kneel in adoration ; in the field the sun, moon, and stars. Legend : — S. FRATERNIT ANNO XVCXXVI FRM. CRVCIFEROR. LONDN 17. THE PIED FRIARS DE PICA OR FRIARS The London settlement of the Pied Friars is mentioned neither by Dugdale nor by Tanner, but that there was such a community seems certain, considering that it figures among other London houses receiving alms on the occasion of the second anniversary of Queen Eleanor of Castille,^' and that the king's wardrobe accounts of 1300 record a gift to these friars of 85.™ Priors of the Crossed Friars Adam,'° occurs 1298 and 13 19 " William de Charryngworth, occurs 1350 '* John Bures, occurs 1379'^ and 1391 ^^ John Lynoth, occurs 1384^' William Bowry, occurs 1512 '* and 1527 *' John Dryver, occurs 1532°* Edmund Stretam, occurs 1534^ Robert Ball, occurs 1535 *^ " L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xiii (2), 807. " Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. Lond. B. Box i. " L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xiii (2), 807, and N.* In 1527 he was sacristan. Add. Chart. 24490. Magna and Parva. •"Ibid, xvii, 1258. ''Ibid, xvii (i), 75, " Ibid, xix(l), 1035 (6). " Monastic jT/vwanv (Abbotsford Club), 19. '*L.andP.Hen.Vlll,,l-]% (27). "Ibid, ix, 1 168. "'Stow, op. cit. ii, 74. "Guildhall MS. 122, fol. 126. " Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, ii, 213. ^ Cal. of Pat, 1388-92, p. 429. " Lond. Epis. Reg. Br.iyhrook, fol. 390. He is probably identical with Bures. '■'Land P. Hen. Vlll, viii, 161. ^ Add. Chart. 24490. " L. and P. Hen. Vlll, v, 1209. " Ibid, vli, 665. 18. THE FRIARS DE ARENO A priory for friars of the order of St. Mary de Areno was founded in Westminster in 1267 by William Arnand, a knight of Henry III. It lasted just fifty years, the community coming to an end with the death of the last brother, Hugh of York, in 1317.'^ 19. THE MINORESSES WITHOUT ALDGATE The house of the Grace of the Blessed Mary was founded outside Aldgate in the parish of St. Botolph in 1293 ' by the brother of Edward I, Edmund carl of Lancaster, for inclosed nuns of the order of St. Clare.^ The first members of the convent were brought to England by the " B. M. Toph. Chart. 3 ; Doc. D. and C. of Westm. Lond. B. Box i. '^ B. M. Sloane Chart, xxxiv, 77. ^' Jrci. xxix, 179. She died 19 Edw. I. '° Liier Ouotid. Contrarotul. Garderob. 28 Edw. 1. " Cal. of Close, 1 3 1 3-1 8, p. 503. ' Or rather the foundation was then confirmed by the king, Pat. 21 Edw. I, m. 11, quoted in Dugdale, il/ra. ylngl. vi, 1553. It seems probable, however, that a slightly earlier date should be assigned, as the house is mentioned in the Taxatio of Pope NichoLis about 1291. ' As altered by Pope Urban IV. They were not Poor Clares, since they received endowments. Fly, 'Some account of an Abbey of Nuns,' Arch, xv, 93. 16
 * ^52 13^. 4(/.*^ per annum, included the chapel
 * ' Aug. OiF. Bks. 233, fol. ^■]^b.
 * Stow, op. cit. ii, 74.
 * ' This may either be Welnetham or Waldingfield
 * » L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xv, 436 (88).
 * ' Ibid, xv, 942 (19). Babraham (?).
 * Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. London, B. Box I.
 * ' Ibid, ix, 1092 and 1 168.