RELIGIOUS HOUSES Shoaldhani, &c^ to maintain a lamp to imra daflj in the church and to saj a. collect at masses for their souk and their parens' souls.* Pardon was granted to the priory in 1313 on pajment of the heavy fine of 40 marks for ^propriating in mortmain without licence the church of Stanford, which was at their potroo- age.* It had been appropriated in 1 30 1, and was the gift of William Mortimer of Attleborough. The ordination of the ricaiage and leave to appropriate were duly granted and roistered by the bishc^ but dvil sancdao had either been forgotten or deUberatdy overlocdced on account of the attendant expense. The rectory of Fincham St. Martin was appropriated to the priory and a vicarage ordainec in 1350. For obtaining the bishop's assent a penaon of 26s. SJ. was assigned to him and his successors.' The pri«y paid 100s. to the king in 1386 tor licence to iM^d oonsideTable lands in Shouldham for cdebrating yearly in their priory church the obits of Guy de Beaucfaamp, knight, and Philippa his wife, deceased, and of Katharine their daughter when she had departed this life.^ Robert de SjTTngton occurs as prior -- 10 July, 1387, when his signature was apper. _ to a deed securing a pension c£ 2y. 4.: - : bishop of Norwich cm the appn^xiatior. : i <±urch of Holy Trinitr, Caister, which had been granted to the priory by Lord Bardoif.^ Pope Boniface in 1392 confirmed the appropriation of Caister church, valued at 40 marks, the priory being valued at 200 marks. The confiimatioa states that the other priory buildings had been recently overthrown, almost from their founda- tions, by floods of river and sea {sfmmrmm et wuri- iim t n i m Jbctiaam), by fires, and a great gale, and its possessions in great part destroyed. A fitting portion was to be assigned for a vicar, who was to be a secular clerk.* A return made to the crown of the appro- priated churches of this diocese in 1416 names three churches appropriated to Shouldham Priory, •viz. Stanford, Fincham St. Martin (1350), and H<Jy Trinity, Caister (1387) ; the priory held also at that date the advowson of the churches of Carleion St. Peter, Sttie All Saints, Were- ham, Shouldham, and Wiggenhall St. Peter. John Edmund, he being then prior, was insti- tuted to the rectorv of Fincham St. Michael on iS Februarv, 1502, on the presentarion of Castle Acre Priory ; he died in 15C4. Robert Swift was prior in 1535 when the Valor Ecclesiasricus was drawn up ; the clear annual value of the priory was then declared at £138 iSi. Id. A commission was granted in 12S1 to uiquire ' Pal. iS Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 2. » Csl r P^- - Edw. II, pt. i, m. 5. ' Blomeield. Hist, sf Strf. vii, 424. • Pat. 10 Ric II. pt. i. m. 25. • Blomefidd, Hist. »/ KtrrZ vii, -i:4.-f. • CdLP^Rig. iv^43S.' into alt, ct_ bv ; of Ridsid ^lailBe, wim red at the door of the --'-nned and imprisooed
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r fewmdfT I, left to wbooi (or rather t _ snt) -; -- - — "" "r marks.* ~' —P. eari -ift to Maigz' -.: I-- -it Montfort, rir _ ; .:: _: Si" ; - .~ . a ring, a covered cup, and 4c marks. H : bequeathed to Katharine, da- : - . Guv ^wfao had pre-deceased hiir. s gtdd ring and £2C. _- : - : , who made his will bet- : to the wars, and died in France in 135 his fourth best ring to his daughter the nun Katharine, and the church of Necton to tfae priory to serre fat the maintenance of Elatfaarine and Elizabedi his two dangfateis, and after their death as sdpend for a priest to say daily mass fer tfae souls of his &tfaer and ntocher, hircs^If. xr.d his wife and his daughters.** Thoooas Beaucfaamp, earl oi V~ succeeded his &ther of the same r—ii,, ::._ the displeasure of Richard 11 in 1397— 8, was banished to the Isle of ^lan and fbrfoted his estates ; whereupon his niece Katharine, the nun of Shouldham, petitioned die king in her own behalf as harii^ had no ^lare in her father's inheritaiKre, with the result that an annuity of 40 marks was granted her from the exchequer, which, of course, went to the coorent. Her uncle, die eail, died in 1400, and instructed hk executors to bestow some suitable sift upon Katharine.*^ In 1 32 1 a straaje and fetal accicent occurred at this Gilbertine house. One cf the canor*, William de Spalding bv name, was plaving at football ; during the game a lav friend ot his, also called William, ran against him and woimded himself on a sheathed knite carried by the canon, with the result that he died within six cays. No blame was attached to tjie canon, who felt ' Pat. 9 Edw. I, m. 1 2. Tnis cause was sdll p«:nd- ing ia 1292 (Pat. 20 Edw. I, m. 13). - C^ tfPtt. 22 Edw. I, m. 12 i. ' Dngdale, Ac-wjgr, i, 226, 229. » Ibid.
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