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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK other ornaments were duly repaired. Robert Lokke said that their foundation members were six, but that they were now dispensed from keeping the full number. John Bushoppe gave the warden an excellent character, and said that the services were duly observed, but that the number of boys was deficient.' The college was again visited on 2i July, 1526, when Master Rawlins was warden. The warden acknowledged that he had not rendered any account of receipts and payments, nor had he any book of accounts. There were only two brethren or fellows, Nicholas Marshall and Richard Ramme. The former of these testified that he had been a fellow for a year, and that they had no chest for the common seal and muniments according to the statute, nor was any annual account rendered.^ Robert Audley was master in 1534. On 29 August of that year, the master, in conjunc- tion with four chaplains, subscribed to the acknowledgement of the king's supremacy.' When the Valor Ecclesiasticus was drawn up in 1535, the total annual value was ^^63 6;. lofi^., but there were many outgoings, and the clear value was only £^2 i$s. j^d. The college was suppressed, and its site and revenues assigned to Sir Edward Knevitt in 1 541 ;* but in the following year Sir Edward sold these possessions to John Maynard, mercer, of London.' Masters of Thompson College The names of the masters (save the first) are those given by Blomefield, slightly corrected by the episcopal registers. John Sporle,' 1349 John Grene, 1353, re-chosen 1368 Stephen Feltham, 1356 Alexander de Horsted, 1378 Thomas Bushell, 1419 John Mayster, 1425 Robert Swetenham, 1425 Roger Philpot, 1432 William Bettys, 1439 Peter Lock, 1474 John Whitterd, 1487 Ambrose Ede, 1490 John Wyatt, 1503 John Purpett, occurs 15 14' Richard Alday, alias Hoke, 1 5 1 8 Robert Dikar, 15 19 Roger Rawlins, 1524 Robert Audley, 1534 The fine fourteenth-century seal (2^ in. by i in.) of this college bears St. Martin dividing his cloak with the beggar ; in the base under a pointed arch, are the five chaplains of the house kneeling, between two shields of the arms of the founder (Shardelowe), on a chevron, between three cross-crosslets fitchews an estoile. Legend : s' COMMUNE COLLEGII ; DE TOMUSTONE ' ALIEN HOUSES 116. THE PRIORY OF DOCKING' The endowment charter of Eton College men- tions the alien priory of Docking. It was a small cell of the Benedictine abbey of Ivry in France, to which house the church was appropriated. It was dissolved with other alien priories by the Parliament of Leicester in 1415, and was at first granted to Joan, the queen-dowager of England. 117. THE PRIORY OF FIELD DALLING In 1 138 James de Sancto Hylario gave to the abbey of the Holy Trinity, Savigny, in the diocese of Avranches, 10 librates of land with their appurtenances in Field-Dalling (Dallenges), with the consent of Avelina his wife and Peter his brother, for his weal and for the souls of his predecessors and successors. Two years later King Stephen addressed a confirmation charter of this grant to the bishop of Norwich and his ' Jcssopp, Norw. Visit. (Camd. Soc), 92-93. ' Ibid. 246. ' Dep. Keeper's Rep. vii, App. 2. ' Ibid. 34 Hen. VIII, pt. x, m. I. ' Blomefield, Hist. ofNorf. x, 367 ; Dugdale, Mon. ti, 1057 ; Taylor, InJex Monastic us, 4. oflScials.''' In the reign of Henry II, Roger earl of Clare also confirmed the grant, and it was subse- quently ratified by Maud his daughter and heiress.^' In 1 147 the abbey of Savigny adopted the Cistercian rule. The monks from Savigny who came to Field Dalling were of that order. Tanner says that Field Dalling was sometimes mentioned as a priory by itself, and sometimes as a parcel of the priory of Long Bennington, Lincoln, which was another cell of Savigny. The taxation roll of 1 29 1 gives the annual value of the land, rents, mill, and other manorial rights at Field Dalling pertaining to the abbey of Savigny at ^21 10;. 3^;^. ; the abbey also held in Norfolk, as pertaining to the cell of Field Dalling, i8j. 8i. ; rents at Norwich, £2 41. 5^^.; land and rents at Saxlingham ; and ^^d. rents at Hindringham, yielding a total of jr24 14/. d. An extent or survey of this cell was taken in 1325 by command of Edward II, when the jury ' Norw. Epis. Reg. iv, 1 19. ' B.M. Ixix, 49 ; Dugdale, Mort. vi, 1460 ; Blomefield, Hist. o/Norf. i, 630. '" Round, Ca/. Doc. France, i, 291, where the originals in the archives of Mortain are cited. " Blomefield, Hist. o/Nor/. ix, 221. 462
 * Pat. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. vi, m. 4.
 * Jessopp, Nortv. Visit. 191.