THE CLUNIAC HOUSES

Summary

Of the houses founded before 1216, no names have been found in this period for Church Preen, Clifford, Great Witchingham, Horkesley, Kersal, Malpas, St Carrok, St Clears, St Helen's, Wangford.

BARNSTAPLE (Devon), St Mary Magdalene (St Martin-des-Champs) f. c. 1107

List in Oliver, p. 196.

Richard Occ. 1157 (Cambridge, King's Coll. Muniments 2. W/6 = Mon., v, 106 = Oliver, p. 194, where ‘Bardeneia’ is a misreading for Bard' = Barnstaple); 14 Aug. 1159 (Cambridge, King's Coll. Muniments 2. W/7).

Norman Occ. 1159×60 (CDF, no.1272); 1157×c. 1179(Mon., v, 198).

*Martin de Bovele Possibly before Norman. Mentioned as former pr. in 1206 (CRR, IV, p. 198).

The next recorded pr., Richard, occ. early 1227 (Prynne, Records, III, 74).

BASFORD, see NOTTINGHAM

BERMONDSEY (Surrey), St Saviour (La Charité) f. 1089 (see below)

*Lists in Rose Graham, English Ecclesiastical Studies, pp. 121ff.; VCH Surrey, II, 75 (the latter from Ann. Bermondsey). Miss Graham, pp. 93ff., showed how unreliable in general the annals are; but it has been suggested above, p. 6, that the case is (paradoxically) somewhat better for the twelfth than for later centuries; and they have been used here, though with caution. Dates which fit into the pattern of other evidence may be accepted, since in this period the compiler followed a good source for most of his information about the priors; but he shows here as elsewhere his tendency to introduce names out of context and to multiply brief priorates; and we may be reasonably sure that the multiplication of Peter, Adam and Henry de Soilli is an example of this mode of error.