The Valuation
of the Priory of Studley, upon the Survey made by the Act of Parliament
of,the,26th year of :Henry VIII. granting they first fruits and tenths to the
King.
STODELEY
PRIORIE IN COMITATU OXON.
DAME JOHANNA
WILLYAMS, PRIORISSE THERE.
The true Valure of Issus, Revenus and Profyhts of all Possessions Spirituall' and Temp'alx. And of all other Proffyhts belongyng to the seid Priorie.
In
Spiritualibus.
£ s. d. £. s. d.
In primis, the parsonage of Beckeley, the
glebe of the _
same,
and all prediall tythes in the towne of Beckley, the
parke
excepted, set to ferme to Richard Reve, for 10
quarters
rye 40s. and 14 quarters barly 41. valued at 6 0
0
Item of the same parsonage. in the hands of
the seid '
Priorisse,
all oblacions in the seid cburche, all tythes in
Horton,
Studeley, and Marlake, which be communibus ',
annis
as folowyth, viz. in offrings upon Ester daie, 0 7
0½
Item
openings in the churche uppon the 8 other offring
daies
. 0 18
0½
Item 15 tyth lammes . 0 11
0
Item 1 todd and dimidium tyth woll 0 16
10
Tyth for Beckley parke . 1 13
4
Tythe in Marlake . 0 13
4
In
the town of Oxon, viz. in parochia Sancti Martini 1 0 0
In
parochia Omnium Sanctorum , 3 5
4
In
parochia Sancti Petri . . 1 3
0
In
parochia Sancti Mildred, . 0 1
0
In
parochia Sancti Ebbe . . 0 8
0
16 15 11
Annual
Deduccions out of the forseyd Spiritualties.
In
primis Episcopo Lincoln, pro indempnitate Ecclesiae de Beckeley , . 0
10 0
Item
decano et capitulo ejusdem ecclesiee Lincoln. pro x consil' indepn' . 0
3 4
Item Abbati de Osney pro porcione decimarum 1
2 0
Item Arcbidiacono Oxoniensi pro sinodalibus et procu
rationibus . 0 10 7 ¾
Item solutio vicario perpetuo ecclesiae de Beckeley . 8
0 0
Summa deducionum spiritualium 14 5
11¾
Et remanet 6
9 11¼
In
Temporalibus.
In primis for the manor of Craucombe in Comitatu
Somerset, given to the Monasterie ad vestiendas moniales 20
18 11
201. 8s. l ld. 11b. pepperis, perquisits of Courts 10s. 1 lb. of pepper.
Item the manor of Corseley in Com. Wilts gyvy n to the
seid Monasterie to find 2 priests singyng for Godfrey
Craucombe, and to find 2 tapres brennyng at altar masses
40s. and to find a lamp 20s. brennyng continually before the
sacrament and to the kychen for the fraternity 41. is in value
by the yere of rent of assize 23l. 12s. 01/2d. 2 lbs. pepper,
Item the perquisits of the courts 10s. 23 2
0 ½
Stodeley, Horton, with divers forren townes in the
counties of Bucks,
Oxon, Warwick, videlicet,
£.
s. d. £‑ s.
d.
In Long Compton 7 2 6 In Staunton 0 11 0
In Wroxton 0 13 ,4 In Sakeworth 2 0 0
In Ardeley 0 5 0 In Wynchindon 0 10 0
In Steplebarton 0 5 0 In Kymbell 0 6 8
In Steple Aston 1 3 4 In Ilmer. de pencione
In Wotton 0 6 0 Rectorie 0 6 8
In Wyghtly 1 0 0 In Ilmerdeliberoredditu 0 2
In Begebroke' 1 6 8 In Botilclaydon. 2 0 0
In Chesterton 1 6 8 In Overhayford 0 10 0
In Wyndylby 0 9 0 In Westcott. Fairford 0 4 0
In Tackeley 0 18 0 . De porcione in Tydyn‑
In Okeley 0 14 4 ton 0 8 0
InWormehallandChom‑ In Belgrave 0 10 0
ley . 0 16 8 In Beckley . 0 11 8
In Forstell 2 0 0 Horton and Studley3 14 21
In Ellesfeld, 0 15 4 In Lamparte . 0 12 0
31 9 0½
Summa Temporalium 76 . 14 0
Dominicalia.
Pasture.
In primis 13 small close aboute the monasterie con
teeing by estimucion 74 acres, 'and a close in Marlake,
conteyning 40 acres in pasture ground every acre at 12
rent . 6 13 0
Arable.
Item in arable ground 180 acres every acre at 4d. to rent 3 0 0
Molendina.
In molendinis 0 6 8
Summa omnium dominicalium 9 0 8
Summa spiritualium, ternporalium, et dominicalium 108 16 5
Summa temporalium 85 10 8
spritalium 16 15 11
Deducciones
Temporales.
In primis to Mr. James Hadley Stuard of the forseyd manor of
Craucomb 1 0 0
Item to the recever there 0 8 0
Item seniscallo manerii de Corseley ballivo Waltero Hungerford
Militi . . 1 0 0
Item receptors ibidem pro feodo suo 1 6 8
Item receptors redditus ville Oxon. 0 13 4
Item receptors reddiitus in comitatibus Bucks, Oxon, and Warwick 1 6 8
Item in feodo Magistri John Par, senescalli monasterii predicts 1 0 0
In feodo Richardi Crispe auditoris ibidem 1 0 0
Item solutio Magistro Sancti Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia pro
parcella terre wocata Hoggeshawe in Claydon 0 1 8
Item domino Regi ad manus vicecomitis Bucks Os. et ad victim
francs (pleqii, sc.) tentum aped Halton infra Honorem Walingford 6s. 0 12 0
Item domino de Corse de redditu resoluto 0 11 6
Ecclesiae de Cracomb . 0 1 9
Collegio de Brace de redditu resoluto per annum . 0 2 0
Ballivis ville Oxon per annum 0 2 8
Item domino Regi solutio ad curiam Swanimot forestae de Barnewood
Shoteover pro denariis vocatis Leff Silver 0 10
0
Summa deduccionum temporalium 9 16 3
Summa deduccionum spiritualium ut in primo folio . 10 5 11¾
Summa omnium allocationum tam spiritualium quam
temporalium . 20 2 2¾
Summa 102 6 7
Reprisiones . 20 2 2¾
Et remanet . 82 4 4¼
Decima pars inde 8 4 5¼
Per me Richardum Crispe auditorem ibidem
To this may be added the sums received from Colleges in Oxford.
Collegium Regine. Item Monasterio de Studeley in Qom. Oxon. pro'
guieto redditu imperpetuum 0 3
0
Collegium Animarum Omnium Fidelium Defunc. Item solutio pro
quodam annuo redditu imperpetuum Priorissiae de Stodeley 1 6 8
Collegium Lincoln. Item Priorissae et Conventui de Stodeley et
eorum successoribus pro quieto redditu per annum in perpetuum 0 1 0
Novum Collegium. Redditus resolutus Prioritize de Stodley pro
domo in tenura Willelmi Weste 8s. et parcella gardini Collegii per
annum 1 8 0
(This 20s. was the pension paid for Sheld Hall.)
Monasterium de Osney; an annual pension to the Prioress and
Convent of Studley per annum' 1 2
0
Sir Alexander Croke writes:
“Soon after this valuation, was passed the act for the suppression of the
lesser monasteries, of revenues not exceeding two hundred pounds a year, 27
Hen. VIII. ch. 28. There was a clause which empowered the King, by his letters
patent, to continue such religious houses as he was not disposed to have
suppressed, and by his letters patent of the 17th of August 1536, he confirmed
five abbies, and sixteen nunneries, which had been reported by the
commissioners as more regular than the others. In the list of the monasteries
which were so confirmed, and upon the certificates of the commissioners were
assigned and appointed to stand by the King's commandment, is " the Priory
of Studley nuns," and John Wylliams was appointed to the same, whether as the intended grantee, or in what other
capacity, does not appear. In the general suppression, two years afterwards,
those reserved monasteries were abolished likewise.
The surrender
of the Priory to the King by the Lady Johanna Willyams, styling herself
Prioress of the House or Priory of nuns of Studley, of the order of Saint
Benedict, and the, Convent of, the same place, is dated in the Chapter House,
the 19th of November, in the 81st year of Henry VII I. 1589. Sealed and
delivered in the presence of George Holland, Notary Public, by the King's
authority. See an etching of the Conventual Seal, from the original deed of
surrender in the Augmentation Office.
Pensions for
life were assigned to the Prioress and seven nuns from the Court of
Augmentations, thus entered in the pension book, f. 107.”
The late Pryorye of Studley
in the Countye of Oxon.
Pencions assigned by the Commyssyoners at the dissolution of the same unto the late Pryoresse and Systers they to be payde unto them yerely duryng theyr lyves at the ffeast of the Annunciation of owre Ladye and Seynt Michaell the Archangell by evyn portions. The ffirst pavment to begin at the feast of the annunciation of owre Ladye in the xxxist yere of owre sovereyn Lord King Henry the VIII. That is to say,
Furst, to Johanna Williams, late Pryoresse, there . . . 16 5 8
Item, to Alyce Richardson, late Subpryorisse ther . . . 2 18 4
Item, to Margaret Walsshe . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 0
Item,
to Alice Yomens , . . . . . . . . . . 1 13 4
Item,
to Elisabeth Bolde . . . . . . . . . 1 6
8
Item,
to Margaret Wythyll . . . . . . . . . 1 6. 8
Item,
to Susan Demon . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 8
Item,
to Frydeswyde Copcote . . . . . . . 1 6
8
Summa . . . . . . 28
0 0.
Johannem Williams
Per Nos. ~ R . Gwent
Johannem Carleton
Williemus Cavendyssh,