Text of the cartulary of Bushmead Priory

Summary

Folio: ij.

Nomina omnium priorum de Bisshemade

Joseph de Copmanford.

Johannes de Oyldebouf, qui obiit monachus Wardon’.

Simon de Colesdene.

Ricardus Folyot tempore regis Henrici.

Simon de Redbourne, qui resignauit post l prelacionis sue annos.

Robertus de Lobbenham, qui resignauit post xxxiiij prelacionis sue annos.

Ricardus de Stokton’, qui obiit post ij prelacionis sue annos.

Simon de Grantesdene, qui resignauit post j et dimidium prelacionis sue annum.

Adam de Leuerington’, qui resignauit post ij et dimidium prelacionis sue annos.

Johannes de Ryslee, qui resignauit post.

Willelmus de Lytlyngton’.

Magister Nicholaus Smyth prior qui resignauit post xx prelacionis sue annos.

Dominus Ricardus Rorgors quondam prior de Broke et prior istius ecclesie qui obiit post ij menses prelacionis sue anno domini M°voxxxj° anno regni regis Henrici octaui post conquestum xxiij°.

Dominus Robertus Burre prior qui [entry not completed].

Thus the list given in V.C.H. Beds., i, 386, may be slightly amended as follows :

RECTOR

William of Colmworth, occurs 1198 (no. 1).

PRIORS

Joseph of Coppingford, occurs 1215, d. 1233.

John de Weldebof, elected 1233 (Rot. Welles, iii, 31), occurs 1255 (no. 39).

Simon of Colesden, occurs 1261 (no. 262).

Richard Foliot, elected 1265 (Rot. Gravesend, 192), resigned 1298.

Simon of Redbourn, elected 1298 (V.C.H., citing Inst. Sutton, 104), resigned 1321.

Robert of Lubenham, elected 1321 (V.C.H., citing Inst. Burghersh, 291), resigned 1348.

Richard of Staughton, elected 1348 (V.C.H., citing Inst. Gynwell, 375), died 1349.

Simon of Gransden, elected 1349 (V.C.H., citing Inst. Gynwell, 362 d), resigned (?) 1350-53.

Adam of Leverington, elected (?) 1350-53, resigned 1355.

John of Riseley, elected 1355 (V.C.H., citing Inst. Gynwell, 393), resigned 1385.

William of Lidlington, elected 1385 (V.C.H., citing Inst. Buckingham, 344).

Robert Titchmarsh, elected (?) 1414 (allowing for 30 years tenure of office).

William Chanu, elected 1444 (V.C.H., citing Inst. Alnwick, 184 d. For the next five priors the dates estimated in the V.C.H. have been followed; but they were reached by calculating the years of office backwards from Nicholas Smith, thus cutting William Chanu short by four years. As the writing is in different hands it is as likely that four entries are one year out as that one entry is four years out).

William Staughton, elected (?) 1465.

Thomas Staughton, elected (?) 1473.

Robert of Potton, elected (?) 1481.

John of Bosworth, elected (?) 1482.