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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES Nicholas of Breedon,^^ presented 1285, resigned 1294 Richard de Bremesgrave,^^ presented 1294, resigned 1299 Richard of Ketton/" presented 1299, resigned 1300 John de Flore,^^ presented 1300, resigned 1302 Stephen of Ketton,^^ presented 1302 Richard of Ketton,^' presented 1 305 Robert of Pershore,^* presented 1 310 Henry Waleys,^^ presented 1346 Richard of Oxenden,^^ presented 1362, re- signed 1366 Ralf of Towcester,^' presented 1366, resigned 1375 Thomas de Farncote/* presented 1375 Robert of Leicester,^^ presented 1379, resigned 1385 Thomas Kidderminster,^" presented 1385, re- signed 1388 James of Coleshill,'^ presented 1388 Thomas Campden,^' presented 1400 Richard Charlton, '' presented 1400, died 1403 John Wyche,''' presented 1403, resigned 1407 John Strech,'' presented 1407, resigned 1425 William Shrewsbury,'* presented 1425 Thomas Blakewell,'' resigned 1433 Thomas Layton,'* presented 1433, died 1453 Thomas Brayles,'^ presented 1453, resigned 1459 Richard Marston,^" presented 1459, died 1487 William Unwyn,*' presented 1487, resigned 1519 John Penketh,^ presented 15 19, resigned 1525 Richard Rogers,** presented 1525, resigned 1531 Robert Orwell," presented 1 531, died 1534 Roger Harwell," last prior, presented 1534 HOSPITALS 2. THE HOSPITAL OF TOLETHORPE A hospital was founded at Tolethorpe in 1301 by John de Tolethorpe for the mainten- ance of seven poor men, with a chaplain as warden.^ It seems, however, that the original purpose of the foundation was not long observed, as in 1359 Sir William de Burton rebuilt the ancient chapel at Tolethorpe and obtained papal authority to found therein a college of a master and six chaplains, for whom the bishops of Lincoln, London, and Rochester were to draw up ordinances.*" At the same time indulgences were granted to those visiting the chapel on the feasts of the Blessed Virgin or St. Anne, further indulgences being granted the following year.*"* By the foundation the master and chaplains were to support the chapel out of the offerings made there, but in 1362 the founder sought the royal licence to appropriate to its support the advow- son of the parish church of Little Casterton.^ Either the college was not after all endowed, or the endowment proved insufficient, for it seems speedily to have come to an end, surviving only " Line. Epis. Reg. Rolls of Sutton. " Ibid. Inst. Sutton, fol. 56 d. '" Ibid. fol. 67. Geoffrey of Whitwell was first presented, but the bishop instituted Richard of Ketton finally. =" Ibid. Inst. Dalderby, fol. 102. " Ibid. fol. 104. " Ibid. fol. 108 d. "" Ibid. fol. Il9d. " Ibid. Inst. Bek, fol. 76 d. '' Ibid. Inst. Gynwell, fol. 142. " Ibid. Inst. Buckingham, i, fol. 164.  Ibid. fol. 202. ^Mbid. fol. 214. Ibid, ii, fol. 133. as a chantry, for which the parish priest of Little Casterton was apparently obliged to provide a chaplain to serve the chapel three times a week : in 14 10 he was exonerated from this duty by Thomas Burton,' and it is probable that the chapel was not regularly maintained at all after this date. . It is mentioned as appendant to the manor of Tolethorpe as late as 1496, when there was still a messuage called the College House, and a close called the Chapel Close : * but the chapel itself was probably in ruins by that time. Richard is entered as master in 1379, with John as his assistant chaplain,*' but no other names of incumbents of either the hospital or college are known. =" Ibid. fol. 146. " Ibid. Inst. Beaufort, fol. lood. "Ibid. fol. 102 d. "Ibid. fol. 121. " Ibid. Inst. Repingdon, fol. 228. '^ Ibid. Inst. Fleming, fol. 72. " Ihid. Inst. Gray, fol. 27 d. '" Ibid. '' Ibid. Inst. Chadworth, fol. 5 1 d. " Ibid. fol. 62. " Ibid. Inst. Russell, fol. 60 d. " Ibid. Inst. Longland, fol. 96. "Ibid. fol. 113. "Ibid. fol. ii5d. ' Blore, Hilt, of Rut. 92 ; from a deed which was in the possession of the Vicar of Little Casterton in 1811. '" Ca/. Papal Pet. 340. "> Ibid. 353, 360. ' Inq. a.q.d. file 341, no. 8. ' Blore, Hist of Rut. 216. Several deeds mention- ing the advowson of the chapel are printed in full by Blore. * Ibid. 2 1 8. Crowther-Beynon. 61 21
 * ^ Ibid. Inst. Atwater, fol. 22 d.
 * ' Cler. Subs. bdle. 35, no. 7; ex inf. Mr. V. B.