The History of the Priory of Monkton Farley, County of Wilts
The History of the Priory of Monkton Farley, County of Wilts
John Edward Jackson
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6d.) per annum, by way of acknowledgement, in lieu of all claims ; and the Prior was to do the further pleasant fealty of dining at St. Pancras, Lewes, every founder's day. Such was the arrangement. Nevertheless, the Bohuns never ceased to claim the patronage, and it always ap- pears in the lists of their property to the last. The names of some of the Priors of Farley are preserved, but are not associated with any distinction, Hterary or otherwise. Some of them are French, as I/awrence Archenba...ud and John de Fescamp. Such names, perhaps, indicate that the wishes of the Bohun family were some- times attended to in the nomination ; whereas, on the other hand, the Prior of Lewes occasionally secured the appointment to favour- ites of his own, for among the accounts of Sir John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, there is a casual memorandum that he had re- ceived some trifling favour from " the Chamberlain of Lewes, that shall be Prior of Farley,''^ The system under which religious houses in England came to be in any way dependent on others in France commenced at the time when certain provinces of France were held by the Kings of Eng- land.
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