Alien Priory. An alien priory to the abbey of St. Sergius and Bachus at Angiers.
Vide Mon. Angl. i. p. 1036. ex pat. 48 Ed. 3. p. 2. m. 3. “Prior de Minstre habet apud Pilesfunte de redditu xx. sol.” Taxat. Lincoln; In Bundell. benef. alienig. 48 Ed. 3. “Minster prior alienigena habet in proprios usus ecclesias de Minster et Bodecastell:” In the account of knight’s fees in Mr. Carew’s Survey of Cornwall, f. 41. b. “Prior de Ministre tenet. i. par. feod. mort, in Polifant, 3 Hen. 4.”
Year Books, 32 Hen. 6. 13, 14.
XXI. NEWPORT near Launceston.
Hospital. Here is an old hospital for lazars, dedicated to St. Thomas, which was well endowed and governed in Mr. Carew’s time.[136]
XXII. NYOTT, olim Neotstoke,[137] or Neotstow, or St. Guerir, in the deanry of West.
Monastery destroyed. Here was a monastery[138] or college[139] founded in honor of St. Neotus, brother[140] to K. Alfred, who was here buried, which continued till after the Conquest. The church here belonged to Montacute priory in Somersetshire.
Vide in Joanne Glastoniensi, p. 111. historiolam fundationis hujus monasterii.
Stevens’ Supplement, vol. i. p. 217.
[Domesd. tom. i. fol. 121. H. E.]