Footnote 18:
Hennessy: Loc. cit. Walter Shiryngton, Prebendary of Gevendale oin
York; of Offley; of Mora, &c.; Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster; _ob._
1448. Buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
[Sidenote: 1418.]
Recorda 5 Henry V, pt. 1. “Recordum et processus inter Prior Hosp. beate
Mar. ibidem et Custodem Capelle ibidem ubi fit mentio de primata
fundatione.”
The reference of this note has not been found in the Memoranda Rolls of
the reign of Henry V.
[Sidenote: 1432.]
Royal licence to “our chaplain,” Roger Westwode,[19] Master of the
Chapel or Hospital of St. Marie de Roncidevall by Charyngcroix in the
diocese of London, his successors or their proctors, to receive bulls
and other letters of indulgence for the profit of the said Chapel, from
the Prior and Convent of Rouncidevall in Navarre, in the diocese of
Pamploma, and to remit alms for the poor and other moneys to the Priory
in Navarre, because the said Priory is outside our allegiance, to last
so long as there is no war between us and the King of Navarre.
Westminster.
Pat. Roll, 11 Henry VI, pt. 1, m. 16.
Footnote 19:
Hennessy: Loc. cit. Roger Westrode, Prebendary of St. Stephen’s Royal
Chapel, Westminster, 1422; _ob._ 1433.
[Sidenote: 1440.]
Grant to John Gourney of a parcel of land, late of the King of Scotland,
lying between a plot of the Archbishop of York towards the south, and
the chapel of St. Mary Rouncevale towards the north (etc.). 1st April;
Westminster.
Calend. Pat. Rolls, 18 Henry VI, pt. 3, m. 12.
[Sidenote: 1440.]
Grant of the alien Priories in England and Wales to Henry, Archbishop of
Canterbury, and others.
Rymer’s Fœdera. 12th September, 19 Henry VI.
[Sidenote: 1475.]
Foundation of a fraternity or perpetual gild of a Master, and two
Wardens, and the Brethren and Sisters who may wish to be of the same in
the Chapel of St. Mary Rounsidevall by Charyng Crosse in the suburbs of
London: “They shall form one body, and shall have perpetual succession
and a Common Seal”; and of a perpetual Chantry of one Chaplain to
celebrate divine service daily at the High Altar in the said Chapel, for
the good estate of the King and his Consort Elizabeth, Queen of England,
and his firstborn son Edward, and the Brethren and Sisters of the
fraternity, and for their souls after death. 28th October; Westminster.
Calend. Pat. Rolls, 15 Ed. IV, pt. 2, m. 10, p. 542.
[Sidenote: 1478.]
Grant in mortmain to the Master, Wardens, Brethren and Sisters of the
fraternity or gild in the Chapel of St. Mary de Rouncidevale, by Charing
Crosse, of the said Chapel or Hospital, and of its property, oblations,
and other privileges, for the sustenance of three chaplains celebrating
divine service, and of the poor people flocking to the Hospital;
provided that they grant for life to Elizabeth Berde, widow, 6 marks
yearly for her sustenance, and a fair house for her by the said Chapel
or Hospital. 9th March; Westminster.
Calend. Pat. Rolls, 18 Ed. IV, pt. 2, m. 34, p. 114.
[Sidenote: 1494-95.]
A suit brought against the Warden of the Chapel of St. Marie de
Rounsewal as to half an acre of land. There follows a long legal
argument respecting the patronage of the Chapel, and other matters.
Year Book. 10 Henry VII, Easter Term (No. 5).
[Sidenote: 1495-96.]
Argument as to whether the Hospital can plead under the name of the
Master and Wardens only, or under the full title of Master, Wardens,
Brethren and Sisters of Rounceval.
Licence to plead in the former designation appears to have been granted
in their patent of incorporation.
Year Book. 11 Henry VII, Trinity Term (No. 12).
[Sidenote: 1509-10.]
Laurence Long, Master, Robert Day and William Goodwyn, Wardens of the
Fraternity or Gild in the Chapel of Saint Mary Rounceval juxta Charing
Cross, pay 20_s._ into the Hanaper for the confirmation of various
letters granted to the Fraternity by the King and certain of his
progenitors.
L.T.R. Originalia Roll. 1 Henry VIII, Rot. 139.
[Sidenote: 1539-44.]
A statement by the Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations of payments
made by the King’s warrant in 1542-43 includes two payments of 40_li._
and 44_s._ on the 28th April and 1st May, 1542, respectively, to William
Jenyns, Master of the Fraternity of Roncevalle, for the use of the
Wardens there, made by virtue of a deed of exchange bearing the date
13th March, 1542 (33 Henry VIII), between His Majesty and the Master and
Wardens, leaving a balance still due from the King of 43_li._ 4_s._
The Account of Edward North, Lord Treasurer of the Court of
Augmentations (31 and 35 Henry VIII).
Roll 2 B., pt. 1, m. 80.
[Sidenote: 1542.]
Will. Jenyns,[20] Master, and John Ap Hoell and Ric. More, Wardens of
the fraternity or gild of St. Mary Rouncedevall by Charing Crosse, near
London, grant in exchange for three messuages and one wharf in the
parish of Saint Margaret, certain rents to be paid from the messuage or
tenement called the “Shippe” and a field of land called “Cuppefeld,”
adjoining a field called “Conninggarfeld of Lyncolnes Inne,” in the
parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple Barre, Midd.; which belonged
to St. John’s of Jerusalem. 12th April; Greenwich.
Pat. Roll, 33 Henry VIII, pt. 6, m. 11. Calend. of State Papers
Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. xvii, p. 162.
Footnote 20:
Hennessy; Loc. cit. A William Jenyns was Rector of St. Mary Staining,
1583-84.
[Sidenote: 1544.]
The Deed of Surrender, whereby the Master, Wardens, Brethren and Sisters
of the Fraternity or Gild of the Chapel of Saint Mary of Rounsidevall by
Charinge-crosse, in the suburbs of London, concede to the King in
perpetuity all rights and ownership in the said Chapel and Church of
Saint Mary of Rounsidevall, the Belfry and Cemetery adjacent to the
Chapel, likewise all messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements,
meadows, grazing-lands, pastures, rents, reversions, services, and other
hereditaments whatsoever. (11th November.)
Deed of Surrender. No. 138, Augmentation Office.
_The impression of the Common Seal of the Fraternity is attached._
[Sidenote: 1550.]
(Abstract.) Grant to Sir Thomas Cawarden, knight, one of the gentlemen
of the Privy Chamber (in completion and performance of a grant of the
same premises made to him by Henry VIII before his journey into France
in the 35th year of his reign, the letters patent for which were never
made and sealed), of the following premises: All that Chapel of the late
Hospital of St. Mary de Rowncevall, in the parish of St. Martin’s, late
called the parish of St. Margaret’s, with the churchyard thereto
belonging containing about 1-1/2 roods; also the messuage called the
almeshouse, 80 feet north and south by 23 feet east and west; also “le
wharff,” a stable, and all cellars and land called “le bakeside”; one
garden 108 feet by 104 feet; 2 other gardens, 150 feet by 50 feet, and
120 feet by 45 feet respectively; another garden 126 feet by 84 feet,
abutting on the south on a piece of vacant ground called Scotland and on
the east on the water flowing in “le barge-house” and on the west upon
“le comon Sewer”; another garden 102 feet by 84 feet; a messuage; a shop
called “le longe shoppe” (the above are in the respective tenures of
John Rede, Richard Attsell, Hugh Haward, John Yonge, and Richard
Harryson), all which premises are of the clear yearly value of £12 6s.
8d.; to have and to hold to the said Sir Thomas Cawarden, his heirs and
assigns for ever, in socage as of the honour of Westminster by fealty
only and not in chief; paying yearly to the Court of Augmentations for
the chapel and churchyard, 12d.; for the almeshouse, 4s. 8d., and 19s.
for the other premises (the rents are given separately for each). 21st
January; Westminster.
Pat. Roll, 3 Ed. VI, pt. 10.