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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK ham and the abbot and convent of St. Salvia's of Monsterol, acting for the priory of St. Winwaloe. According to the taxation of 1 29 1 the priory held lands in three Norfolk parishes of the annual value of ^"j 2s. 8d. In 1 32 1 the abbot and convent of Monsterol sold this priory to Hugh Scarlet of Lincoln, and by him it was conveyed to Elizabeth de Burgo, Domine de Clare, the foundress of Clare College, Cambridge. In 1336 this lady conveyed the manor and lands of the priory to the abbot and convent of Dereham on condition of their find- ing a chaplain to say daily mass in the chapel of St. Winwaloe for the souls of Gilbert, earl of Clare, and of Elizabeth and her ancestors and heirs for ever.^ Ten years later Elizabeth granted the custody of ' La Chapele de Saint Wynewale ' to her well-beloved friend, John de Brauncestre.^ At the dissolution the manor of Winwaloe, late belonging to the abbey of Wereham, came to the crown, and was granted in the first in- stance to Thomas Guybon and William Mynn. 124. THE PRIORY OF WITCHING- HAM Walter Giffard, earl of Buckingham, granted to the Cluniac monks of the priory of St. Faith, ' Ca/. of Pal. 10 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 22. tive to ' Wynewale Derham,' beginning with the grant to Hugh Scarlet in 1321, in Add. MS. 6041, fol. 86. Longueville, in the diocese of Rouen, the manors of Great and Little Witchingham and Weston, with the churches of All Saints, Weston ; St. Mary, Great Witchingham ; and St. Faith, Little Witchingham, together with various lands, tithes, rents, and services in several other Norfolk parishes. These grants were confirmed by charter of Henry I, and subsequently by Walter GifFard, son of the original donor and second earl of Buckingham, and by Henry II.' The taxation roll of 1291 mentions portions or pensions from the churches of Weston {£')t Witchingham St. Faith's {£1)^ and Stratton St. Michael's (13^. 4^.) among the spiritualities pertaining to the priory of Longueville. The prior and convent of Longueville drew ;^io 45. '^d. per annum from the manor of Great Witching- ham. In addition to the two Witchinghams and Weston, they also had rents or lands at Ringland, Helmingham, Swannington, Alderford, Brandiston, Reepham, Corpusty, and Booton, giving a total income in temporalities of ^25 lOJ. id. There was a small priory or cell of Cluniac monks at Witchingham, who had the control of the prior of Longueville's Norfolk possessions. This property reverted to the crown in 1414 on the dissolution of the alien houses, and was granted to New College, Oxford, by Henry VI in 1460. ' Round, Cal. Doc. France, i, 74, 75, 77 ; Blome- field. Hist, of Norf. viii, 298 ; Taylor, Index Mon- astic us, 18. 466
 * There is a brief abstract of eleven charters rela-