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 A HISTORY OF RUTLAND There was still a prior in residence in 136 1, when he presented a clerk to the parish church/ But before 1394 the abbot of St. Georges obtained permission to sell his rights in the manor to the Carthusians of St. Anne's, Coventry : and when the alien priors gathered before the king in 1403 to ask leave to retain their lands, no prior of Edith Weston appeared among them.* From this time forward the church and manor belonged to St. Anne's. 'Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Buckingham, i, fol. I58d. ®P.it. I Edw. IV, pt. vi, m. 29-27 (Inspeximus of 14 Ric. II). See^c/; of the P.C. (Old Ser.), i, 192-4. The priors of this cell were not instituted by the Bishops of Lincoln, and very few of their names can be recovered. Robert de Cunebaud was the name of the prior who was so unworthy of his office: another Robert is mentioned in the Episcopal Register in connexion with the year 1361,^ and John occurs as prior in 1379.°^ The value of the priory lands was said to be £38 7'- 5d.'' ° Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Buckingham, i, fol. "" Cler. Subs. bdle. 35, no. 7. "Add. MSS. 6164, fol. 125. " Ibid. fol. 499. iS8d. 164
 * ^26 19J. 11^. in 1325 : '" in 1387 it was given as