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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES of them costly and beautiful, among which may be noted four of cloth of gold, the gift of Dean Cawdray ; another of the same material, the gift of Sir William Oldhall ;'■** one of red bawdekyn, with stars of gold and orphreys of white bawde- kyn ; two of white damask with arms of silver ; one of crimson velvet powdered with flowers and orphreys of green velvet ; a green one barred with gold, the orphreys of red velvet with stars and crowns of gold ; others decorated with birds and harts of gold, peacocks, eagles and dragons ; one of blue satin ' oysters fedders and roses,' and orphreys of ' red saten fyne gold ' ; and several with needlework orphreys. The income of the chapel in 1 29 1 amounted roughly to £20C)}*' In 1535 the annual value of its property then in the hands of the abbot of Westminster was worth about ;^356 is ^d.^*^ but to this must be added the issues of the pre- bend of Newland and of eight chantries, equal to £^c)0 i8x. gc/.'^^ Among the possessions of St. Martin's were the prebends or manors of Imbers, Fawkeners, Paston, and Burghs,'*** and other property in Good Easter, possibly the manor of Newerks,'" and the manor of Mashbury, men- tioned in 1273 as held by the college ; '^^ lands in Knight's ToUeshunt, Norton,'" Maldon,''^ and North Benfleet, ''* co. Essex, and Hoddes- don, CO. Herts ; the rectory of St. Andrews, Good Easter, from early times a prebendal church ; '^^ the church of Newport Pound, of old appurtenant to the deanery ; '*' the church of Witham, where a vicarage was ordained in 1222 ; '^* the chapel of Creasing, which belonged to Witham ''' ; the prebendal church of Cris- '" Probably a thank oiFering after living in sanc- tuary at St. Martin's. '" Harl. MS. 60, fol. 9, ^b, 44, 58, 59, 62, 65, 73, 76, 86. '" Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 41 1, 412. '" Ibid, i, 385. '" Morant, Hist, of Essex, ii, 458. Ct. R. of ' Pas- selewes Manor in Good Easter,' Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. No. 1002 ; Ct. R. of Imbers, No. 13268. '" Acct. of Collector of Rents, 1385. Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. No. I 33 10. In l 506 there was a prebend of Newerks in Good Easter. Ibid. No. 13314. '" The land at Mashbury, with the mill, was let to Canon Herbert in 1239. Ibid. No. 13274. The manor was let with the tithes of Good E.ister and Newland in 1 273. Ibid. No. 1 1 30. "^ The land in these two places formed two pre- bends. "•* L. and P. Hen. Fill, xvii, 714 (5). '"Property here belonged to the deans in 1 29 1 (Harl. 60, fol. 59 and 76), and the dc;in or the col- lege in the time of Hen. VII. Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. No. 13324. "«Ibid. No. 971. '" Cat. oflnq. p.m. 1, 808. '** Newcourt, Repert. Eccl. Lond. ii, 675. '*' Ibid, ii, 197. ; Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. No. 13287. hall,'^ the rectory of St. Mary of Maldon, or the prebends of Cowpes and Keton,'" co. Essex, and the rectory of Bassingbourn, co. Cambridge. A fair in Good Easter had been granted by the king in 1309,"^ and a portion of $$. from the chapel of Bonhunt, co. Essex, had been paid in 1 29 1.'" St. Martin's in 12 15 held one knight's fee in Mashbury.'^^ The tenements in London where the college had had holdings in eleven parishes in 1291 '" amounted in 1535 to about half the entire revenues.'^* St. Martin's also held the appro- priated church of St. Botolph without Alders- gate,'" and a pension of 65. id. from St. Katharine Coleman, 20s. from St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, and dos. from St. Nicholas Shambles, which had been paid in 1291,"^* in some cases much earlier.'^' In 1291, and presumably in 1535, the college possessed, besides the advowsons of the above churches,"''' those of the follow- ing : — St. Agnes, granted to St. Martin's between 1 140 and 11 60 by Abbot Gervase and the convent of Westminster ; '" St. Leonard Foster Lane, built within the precinct early in the thirteenth century ; ^^^ St. Alphage, which had been connected with St. Martin's since the time of Roger, bishop of Salisbury,"^ and in 1291'^^ and 1526''* paid a pension of 33^- ^d. '" Falor Eccl. i, 412. "' In 1428 there were two prebends of St. Martin's in the church of St. Mary of Maldon. Feud. Aids, ii, 187. The Valor says nothing about Maldon, but mentions the prebendal churches of Cowpes and Keton, the latter of which was cer- tainly in Maldon, Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. No. 1 33 10. '" Exemplification of 1440. Ibid. St. Martin le Grand, parcel I. "^ Harl. MS. 60, fol. 65. For the agreement under which this sum was due, see Cartul. of St. Martin's. '" Pipe R. 17 John, m. I. '" Harl. MS. 60, fol. 9*. '«« Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 1, 41 1 and 385. The chantries were endowed almost, if not entirely, with property in London. '" Accts. of John Islyppe, abbot of Westm. for St. Martin le Grand, Mich. 1526 to Mich. I 527. Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. No. 133 19. '"■' H.irl. MS. 60, fol. 9. "' In the time of Dean Godfrey de Lucy the church of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey was granted by the chap er to one of the canons for his life. Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. Cartul. The pension from St. Nicholas Shambles was paid before I235, for a difficulty about it was settled then by the bishop of London. Ibid. London, C. ■'» Mun. Giidkall. Lond. (Rolls Ser.), ii, (i), 235. '" Doc. of D. and C. of Westm., Cartul. of St. Martin le Grand, item loi. "' Newcourt, op. cit. i, 392. '" Cartul. of St. Martin, item 138. '" Harl. MS. 60, fol. 9. '" Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. No. 1 33 19. 563