Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the Bishop’s brother Richard, allowing him to give an acre of land at Draynek in Penwyth (Drannock in Gwinear, Cornwall), together with the advowson of Gwinear, to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, to hold for the support of twelve scholars studying at Oxford and their successors for ever; Sir Richard paid a fine of loo shillings for this licence, and on Friday before Lady day 13if, at Crediton, he transferred the property. The land and the advowson had been conveyed to him by Reginald de Bevyle in a deed dated Walneston 5 Dec. 1312, after the Earl of Gloucester as lord of the manor had authorised the gift at Westminster 24 May 1312. The licence of mortmain for Stapeldonhall itself is dated 10 May 1314k On 4 Ap. 1314 Bishop Stapeldon, after praise of Oxford where he had been educated, says that on consultation with the Dean and Chapter, M. John le Deneys rector of Gwinear, and Adam [de Carleton] archdeacon of Cornwall, he gives the rectory of Gwinear ^ to the Dean 1 Pat. 10 May 1314 licenses bishop Stapeldon to give 2 messuages in Oxford to 12 scholars studying in the University. Pat. 4 Nov. 1315 confirms Skelton’s charter of 6 Oct. Pat. 30 Oct. 1318 confirms agreement with Godstow of 23 Ap. Pat. 30 Nov. 1318 licenses Stapeldon hall to acquire lands and rents to value of £20 a year, and advowson of a church, or of two, to value of 40 marks a year. Pat. 20 May 1322 licenses bishop Stapeldon to give advowson of West Witten- ham. Pat. 18 June 1326 licenses bishop Stapeldon to give 5 messuages in Oxford to the house of Stapeldon. Pat. 20 June 1326 pardons the house of Stapeldon for acquiring without license 2 messuages in Oxford of bishop Stapeldon, i of Agatha d. of Henry Owen, I of Walter Siward, and i of Gilbert Beford. Pat. 12 July 1351 licenses Warden of the King’s free chapel Windsor to give advowson of South Tawton in Devon to Stapeldon hall in exchange for West M’ittenham [Carta Custodis de Wyndesore 21 Sep. 1351 in Ashmole MS. 1125 fob 24J. Pat. 12 Mch 1457 licence to acquire land to value of 14J 8tf a year, and advowson of i or 2 churches to value of 40 marks a year. Pat. 18 June 1705 licence to purchase in mortmain advowsons of yearly value of £500. ^ On 28 Sep. 1319 at Clist the bishop arranged thus for the Vicarage of Gwinear 332): dominus Andrew de Tregiliou now Vicar and his successors are to have the houses previously belonging to the rectory with the whole sanctuary within the close, and the glebe of one acre, except a long building on the sanctuary, with a curtilage of half an acre English adjoining, which the Vicar is to keep up for the Chapter when they want it, to gather the harvest in. The Vicar is to have the lesser tithes, oblations and obventions belonging to the altilage, and the tithe oi hay, mortuaries, flax, hemp, heifers, lambs, fowls, and ‘blades’ cultivated with