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 A HISTORY OF LONDON probably those possessed in 131 8 in Shoreditch, Hackney, and Stepney " ; in co. Herts the manor of Beaumond Hall ; in co. Essex the manor of Chalvedon," where land had been given by William Hobruge before 1318,"^ the manor of Sabur or Seborow Hall,*' evidently the lands in Mocking, Orsett, and Chadwell, held by the priory in the fourteenth century,** the manor of Frerne or Fryern, which came into possession of the house about 1419,*^ and lands in West Tilbury and Mountnessing ; in co. Surrey the manor of Long Ditton, which, with the advowson of the church, had been given to the canons by William earl of Essex,™ the rectories and tithes of Shalford and Wonersh, and a pension from the church of Putney ; in CO. Cambridge lands and tenements in Whittle- sea. A pension was also paid by the abbey of Bindon, co. Dorset. In 1 31 8 the prior had the homage and service of half a knight's fee in West Tilbury and East Tilbury.'^ The plate of the house at the Dissolution was of no great quantity : — 61 oz. of gilt, 106 oz. of white, and 19^ oz. of parcel gilt." Priors of St. Mary's Hospital, without BiSHOPSGATE Godfrey, occurs c. 1 2 1 8 '' Geoffrey, occurs 1231-2^* Warin, occurs 1232-3"* William, occurs temp. Henry III' Reginald, occurs 124 1-2 Robert, occurs 1243'^ and 1248-9" Thomas, occurs 1265-6*" Roger, occurs 1274-5,*^ died 1279 ^ William, occurs 1289*' " Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, fols. 220, 221, 225. ^* Morant, Hist, of Essex, ii, 256. "^ Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, fol. 225. " Morant, op. cit. i, 224. The manor is said to be in the three parishes following. '* Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, fol. 225. " Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, fol. 225. " Ibid. " Uon. Treas. (Abbotsford Club), 26. " Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 623. G. acknovifledges himself subject to W. bishop of London, apparently William de S'" M^re I'Eglise, who held the see 1199- 1221. Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, Liber A. fol. 12. " Hardy and Page, Cal. of Lond. and Midd. Fines, 19. He is probably identical with Godfrey. " Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 2073. '^ Add. Chart. 1 065 7. From the witnesses the time would be early in this reign. " Hardy and Page, op. cit. 26. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, Liber A. fol. 25. " Hardy and Page, op. cit. 33. «" Ibid. 44. «■ Ibid. 51. »» Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, Liber A. fol. ib. ^ Ibid. Roger, occurs 1298** Robert de Cerne, deposed 1306** Philip de London, appointed 1306 ^ William Horton, occurs 13 16,*' 1318,^* and 1325 «' John de Abyndon, occurs 1337^ James '^ Thomas, occurs 1373 '' John de Lyndeseye, occurs 1378" and 1379''' William Helpaby or Helperby, resigned 1388'* John Mildenhale, appointed 1388,^'' occurs 1399'* and 1401 " Roger Pinchbeck, occurs 1406^* and 1407 " Roger Jurdon, occurs 1428 '"" and 1432 '"^ John, occurs 1437 '"^ John Torkesey, occurs 1458^"^° Thomas Hadley, occurs 1471,^"' resigned 1472''^ William Sutton, elected 1472,^"*' resigned 1484 1«* Richard Cressal, appointed 1484,^'* occurs 1498,10' I5i4,'°8and 15151"^ Thomas Bell, occurs 1529 'i" William Major, occurs 1531,'" and at the Dissolution « Add. Chart. 10647. " Lond. Epis. Reg. Baldock and Gravesend, fol. 6. ^ Ibid. " Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, Liber A. fol. 73^ " Harl. Chart. 44, F. 39. "Ibid. S3,H. 28. ■* Cal. of Pat. 1334-8, p. 446. " From Pat. 37 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 20, cited in Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, ii, 13. James was the successor of John de Abyndon. " Riley, Mems. of Lond. 375. »' Col. of Pat. 1377-81, p. 258. ^ Sharpe, Cal. of Letter Bk. H,iig. " Lond. Epis. Reg. Braybrook, fol. 288. « Ibid. '« Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, A. Box 77, No. 2049. " Cal. Pap. Letters, v, 436. ^ Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. ix, App. i, 31, " Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, 623. ""Add. Chart. 13996. "" Sharpe, Cal. of mils, ii, 467. "' Dugdale, op. cit. vi, 623. '"*' Extract from a cartulary belonging to the Mercers' Company in Watney's The Hospital of St. Thomas of Aeon, z. Torkesey is probably the same as the Prior John of 1437. '"^ CaLof Pat. 1467-77, p. 254. '"* Lond. Epis. Reg. Kemp, ii, fol. 3. ""Mbid. '"Mbid. fol. 15. '"* Lond. Epis. Reg. Kemp, ii, fol. 15. ""Add. Chart. 209-10. "« L. and P. Hen. Fill, i, 4931. "" Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, A. Box 77, No. 2051. "° Dugdale, op. cit. vi, 623. He was suffragan to the bishop of London under the title of Episcopus Lydensis. '" L.'andP. Hen. Fill, v, 259. 534
 * ' Morant, op. cit. ii, 25 I.