et possedisti prout tenes et possides pacificè et quietè Cùm autem sicut eadem petitio subjungebat, tu dubites dictum Prioratum tempore presentationis seu institutionis hujusmodi fore dispositione sedis aplice reservatum, teque proptereà posse super eo imposterum molestari. Nos igitur volentes te in presbyteratus ordine constitutum premissorum meritorum tuorum intuitu favore prosequi gratioso, tuis in hâc parte supplicacionibus inclinati, volumus, et aplica tibi auctoritate concedimus, qd presentacio et institucio predicte, et quecumq; inde secuta perinde à dato presentium valeant et plenam obtineant roboris firmitatem, ac si dietus Prioratus tempore presentationis vel institutionis hujusmodi dispositioni sedis predicte reservatus minimè extitisset. Nulli ergo omninò hominum, liceat hanc paginam nostre concessionis et voluntatis infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Siquis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit, indignationem omnipotentis dei, et beatorum Petri et Pauli Aplorum ejus se noverit incursurum. Datum Avinion II. Kal. Februarii Pontificatus nostri Anno Quinto." 14. Thomas Paga, admitted 19. August, 15. Robert Magne, instituted 30. Sept. and, I believe, was the last Prior. A. D. 1 1393 1403 This was one of the priories suppressed in 1414. Very soon after, it was annexed, with all its dependencies, to Sion House, the noble foundation of Henry V. On the suppression of that royal monastery, Otterton manor, then valued at £87. 10. 4. per annum, was granted 31. Hen. VIII. to Richard Duke, one of the clerks of the Augmentation Court, and, at the time of the grant, a clerk of the council, in whose posterity it continued till 24. Sept 1785, when it was purchased by Denys Rolle, Esq. the father of Lord Rolle, the present owner. In the Taxatio of Edward I. I read as follows: PRIOR DE OTRINTA HABET. ... Apud Budleigh de redd molendini.... £. s. d. 5 13 4 10 16 0 2 10 0 1 1 0 1 4 0 Bishop Grandisson informs us, in his register, that the priory, in 1334, held, in proprios usus, the parish churches of Otterton, Harpford, Sidmouth and Yarticombe, at that time valued at £35. per annum. Forty-one years after, Bishop Brantyngham reported to King Edward III. that Sidmouth church was valued at the annual sum of £20. £20. £5. £20. And that Clyston Church paid yearly to Otterton Priory the sum of 5s. Since writing the above, I have found that Henry Marshall, Bishop of Exeter, appropriated the abovementioned churches of Otterton, (with its chapel of Lahedreland, cum capellâ suâ de Lahedreland,) Sidmouth, Yarticombe & Harpford, to St. Michael's Abbey. The deed of appropriation is dated from Crediton, 31. August, 12th year of his Pontificate, See the Appendix (p). I have seen a grant of King Henry VIII. by which he discharges Sion House and its dependencies for ever of all tenths, fifteenths, and all other quotas and subsidies; also of all manner of tolls and customs. Agnes, Abbess of Sion House demised Sidmouth manor and rectory to Richard Coswell, gent. for the term of 99 years, under the yearly rent of £51. 17. 7. The lease, dated 5. Feb. 30, Hen. VIII. was allowed by the Augmentation court. The monastery of St. Michael (to which Otterton Priory was subordinate) was built on a rock four hundred feet high, overhanging the sea, between Normandy and Britanny, in the year 708, by Aubert, Bishop of Avranches. Formerly most of the churches that were built on mountains or eminences, were dedicated to St. Michael; perhaps, because it is asserted, in the most ancient Legends, that he had frequently appeared in such places--" in vertice Gargani montis," and others. On this great abbey, the priory of St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall, was also dependent. A religious community existed there in the time of Edward the Confessor; and Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, exempted it from all episcopal jurisdiction. Borlase's account of this priory is very inaccurate. In 2. Regist. Brantyngham, fo. 7. (ad calcem) is the following account of this priory:- Frater Johes Volant de monte Sti Michis optinet ecclesiam Sti Hilarii valoris pr. ann V marcarum et dimid. & Idem optinet ecclesia de Moresk val. pr an XX marc & 6s. 6d.-Idem optinet capellam Sti Michis in monte val pr. an XXIV marc 3s. & 9d.-- Dictus Prior cum 2 monachis residt in dicto Prioratu." I have met with the following Priors of St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall: 1. Radulphus de Cartaret, admitted 21. Dec. A. D. 1260 1275 1283 4. Peter de Cará Villá succeeded 12. Sept. 1316 5. John Hardy, instituted 3. Oct. 1349 6. John de Volant succeeded 24. April, 1362 7. Richard Auncell succeeded 7. Dec. 8. William Lambert succeeded 1. Oct. 1385 1410 In 3. Regist. Lacy, fo. 43 an indulgence appears to have been granted, of forty days, to all who should contribute to a new causeway from Marazion to St.. Michael's. AXMOUTH. THIS manor, with its parochial church, belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Montburgh, in the diocese of Constance, in Normandy. The priory of Lodres, in Dorsetshire, a cell to Montburgh, was permitted to receive the temporalities of the said church and manor. But I see no reason to believe that any priory existed at Axmouth. In the registers, I observe that Bishop Stapeldon admitted Roger Harriel, Prior of Lodres, to the custody of the church of Axmouth, in the year 1320that Bishop Grandisson admitted Simon de Londâ to the same office, on the 31. Dec. 1355, and Robert Dormer, on 5. Nov. 1361; that Sampson Trigal, Prior of Lodres, was also admitted, by Bishop Stafford, to the said custody in 1396. In the Taxatio of King Edward 1. the manor of Axemuei is valued at £10. 13s. 4d. the tenth is fixed at £1. 1. 4. On the suppression of Lodre Priory, in 1414, the manor and church of Axmouth were granted by Henry V. to his monastery of Sion House. I have seen a presentation by the Abbess and Convent of Sion to the church of Axmouth, in the year 1428. A chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, in Axmouth parish, is mentioned in 1. Regist. Stafford, fo.238. 149 CARSWELL. THIS priory, situate in the Deanery of Plymptre, was a small cell for two Monks, as Leland informs us, and was dependent on the Cluniac Monastery of Montacute, in Somersetshire. In the Taxatio, so often quoted, I read as follows : PRIOR DE CARESWELE HABET. Apud Careswell ...... Apud Monckecoln de redd & pquis. ... In an interesting letter of Bishop Brantyngham's to King Edward III. on the subject of alien priories in the Diocese of Exeter, 2. Regist. fo. 7. ad finem, I observe the prior did not reside at Carswell, Anno 48. Edward Ill. "Frater Radulfus Shalsham indigena Prior de Careswell optinet ecclesiam de Holcombe Rogus que incumbit Priori & Conventui de Monte Acuto & non residet in eâdem cujus fructus & proventus annui se extendunt ad XX Libras." |
