ALIEN PRIORY. A priory of Benedictine monks placed here by K. Edward
the Confessor,[133] but before A.D. 1085. annexed to the abbey of St.
Michael in periculo Maris in Normandy, by Robert[134] earl of Moreton
and Cornwall. After the suppression of the alien priories, this was
given first by K. Henry 6. to King’s college Cambridge, and afterward
by K. Edward 4. to Sion abbey in Middlesex. At the first seizure of it
by K. Edward 3. the farm of it was rated but at 10_l._ _per ann._ but
at the time of K. Henry 8. the lands belonging to this house, as
parcel of Sion, were valued at 110_l._ 12_s._ 0_d._ _ob. per ann._
_Vide_ in Mon. Angl. tom. i. p. 551. cartam S. Edwardi R. et cartas
Roberti comitis et Liurici episc. Exon. Ibid. in tom. ii. p. 901,
902, 903. cartam Edmundi comitis Cornwal recitantem et confimantem
donationes Ricardi patris: Cart. Alani comitis Britanniæ de x _s._
annui redditus de feria de Merdreshem: Cartam Ricardi regis
Romanorum de feriis in Marhasgon: Cartam Conani ducis Britanniæ de
Wath: Et bullam P. Adriani, A.D. 1155. confirmantem omnes
possessiones tam in Normannia quam in Anglia cum anathemate.
Du Monstrier, Neustriam piam, p..
Leland. Itin. vol. iii. p. 17.
In Itin. Will. de Worcestre, p. 101. indulgentiam concessam
visitantibus hanc ecclesiam: p. 103. dimensiones ecclesiæ: p. 129.
excerpta ex kalendario.
In Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, p. 59. Rogeri de Daledich
confirmationem donationis VI_s._ VIII_d._ percipiend. annuatim de
fœdo de Wiscomb per Henricum de Wiscomb factæ.
In Dr. Archer’s account of the religious houses in the diocese of
Bath printed at the end of Hearne’s Hemingford, p. 637. of a pension
of x_l._ marks out of the rectory of Mertock.
In Rymeri Fœder, &c. vol. viii. p. 102. 340, 341. pat. 5 Hen. 4. p.
1. m. 21. pro restitutione hujus prioratus, qui dicitur “esse
tempore guerræ fortalitium toti patriæ circumjacenti.”
Registrum hujus prioratus olim penes Will. com. Sarisb. Excerpta ex
isto registro penes V. cl. Joannem Anstis arm.
Computos, &c. in officio Curiæ Augment. sub titulo _Syon
Monasterium_.
Rot. fin. 13 Ed. 2. m. 3. de terris in Lambedon: Pat. 14 Ed. 2. p.
1. m. 12. de terris in Ottriton monachorum.
Pat. 22 Ed. 3. p. 2. m. 30. de ten. in Trevemeny, Polker, et
Breglis: Pat. 30 Ed. 3. p. 3. m. penult.
Pat. 10 Hen. 6. p. 1. m. ult. Pat. 20 Hen. 6. p. 4. m. 3. de
concessione hujus prioratus rectori et scholaribus S. Nicholai
Cantab.
Pat. 1 Ed. 4. p. 2. m. 8. Ibid. p. 3. m. 1. Claus. 2 Ed. 4. n. 13.
quiet. clam. præpositi S. Nich. Cantab. abbatissæ S. Salvatoris de
Syon de hoc prioratu.
[Domesd. tom. i. fol. 120 b.
Harl. MS. 6965. p. 86.
MS. Cole, vol. xxvii. fol. 184 b.
Tanner mentions a Register of this House, “penes Will. Com. Sarisb.”
This Register is still at Hatfield in Lord Salisbury’s possession.
It came as a Title Deed there, Sir Robert Cecil having purchased
the manor of Mt. St. Michael. H. E.]