Memoranda concerning the history of the dissolved alien priory of Lancaster, and...

Memoranda concerning the history of the dissolved alien priory of Lancaster, and its endowments, replying to the scheme of Richard Chester to convert the priory to a parsonage with himself as parson.

• The parish church of Lancaster is a little parcel of endowment of the priory after its first foundation. Much of its other livelode, temporal and spiritual, was given to the priory and the abbey of Sées (Normandy), its mother house;
• The whole of Lancaster priory, as well as other alien priories and their possessions, were given in fee simply to King Henry V and his heirs in a parliament held at Leicester. Henry V gave some to secular lords and knights and some to spiritual and religious folk as was deemed expedient;
• Giles Lovell, former prior of Lancaster, held the priory in farm of the king paying £110 annually;
• Henry V gave £10 of the farm of the church of Lancaster to endow Syon abbey (Middlesex) during the life of Giles Lovell, with the reversion of the whole priory to the abbey after his death;
• The abbess and convent of Syon entered the priory of Lancaster after the death of Giles Lovell, finding there priests to minster the sacraments when required;
• Whereas the abbess might have held and kept the priory under her governance, finding priests, of her own free will and to the profit of the people she ordained, by the ordinary, a vicar for the church of Lancaster with a sufficient endowment at that time.

For Lancaster see also E 135/4/47-48, 59, E 135/6/25-27, E 135/18/7, E 135/19/33.

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