[589] Vol. iii. p. 147. At p. 145 the sum is given as £23.
[590] In 1233 the convent obtained a prohibition from the pope to erect an oratory or chapel within a Roman mile of their altar (“Papal Letters,” vol. i. p. 137, Rolls Series).
[591] When the Countess of Clare, the lady of one of the manors at Walsingham, gave the Franciscans a site for a house here, in 21 Henry II., the prior and convent petitioned her against the foundation, but without success.
[592] See Wingham and Wye in [Appendix III.], [pp. 564], [566].
[593] Ecclia de Roderham divisa est, Pars Abbis de Clervall, £16 13s. 4d.; vicar ejusdem ptis, £5; pars Rogeri cum vicar ejusdem partis, £21 13s. 4d.; Pens’ Prioris de Lewes in eadem eccles de Roderham, £1 6s. 8d. (“Taxatio,” p. 300).
[594] The example set by the cathedrals for gathering the cantarists into a college, was followed by private benefactors in several towns, e.g. Newark, p. 525.
[595] At the time of the “Taxatio,” the portion of the prior of Worksop in the Church of Sheffield was worth £10 (“Taxatio,” p. 299).
[596] The Augmentation Commissioners of Ed. VI. return that the Parish of Newnham, Gloucestershire, where are houselying people, ciijx, has certain lands, tenements, and rents given to the parishioners to bestow the profits according to their discretion, “in reparying the p̄m̄isses, sometyme in mendyng of high weyes and bridgs within the same p̄s̄he; and sometymes, and of late, in findinge a prieste ther to serve for the soles of the givers and founders, and for c̄t̄en Xtn works, worth £14 0s. 1d. Ornament, plate, and juellry to the same, none, r value xs.” (Notes on the Borough and Manor of Newnham.—R. I. Kerr, Gloucester, “Transactions,” 1893).
[597] The castle chapel, dedicated to St. Philip and James, “was anciently given to the mother church” of Newark.
[598] A suburb outside the borough, called the North End, had a Hospital of St. Leonard, and was a separate parish.