Prebendaries: Preston

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1991.

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'Prebendaries: Preston', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury, (London, 1991) pp. 90-91. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol4/pp90-91 [accessed 19 March 2024]

LIST 48 PREBENDARIES OF PRESTON

PREBEND

Sutton Poyntz (Dorset), and presum. also Preston, part of royal estate of Dorchester 1066 and 1086 (DB I 75b).

Preb. prob. in existence by c. 1150 (Psalter list). Preb. consisted of tithes of Preston and Sutton Poyntz. Called preb. of Preston in 13th-century documents.

Subdcn.-preb.; cantoris side; term of residence c. 1270: July-Sept.

Valuations

1220s 24m.; 1226 24m.; c. 1284 15m.; 1291 £16 13s. 4d.

PREBENDARIES

M. James of Vercelli (fn. 1)

Occ. this preb., as Master James, Oct. 1226 × Feb. 1227 (app. 1). Presum. to be identified with M. James of Vercelli, fined for non-residence Feb. 1227 (RSO II 77) and absent abroad 9 Sept. 1228 (ibid. p. 104). Prob. the unnamed 'canonicus Prestone' who was absent 19 Oct. 1233 (Sar. Chs. p. 230).

John de Kirkeby

Only occ. as can. and this preb. May-June 1284 (app. 2). Treas. of Exchequer; royal justice; archdcn. of Coventry; bp.-el. of Rochester 1283 (1 Fasti II 77). Bp. of Ely, el. 26 July 1286, temps. 7 Sept., cons. 22 Sept. (ibid. p. 47).

M. Reimund de Ferrariis

First occ. as can., going abroad on king's business, 3 Feb. 1290 (CPR 1281-92 p. 339). King's clk., non-resident, chiefly abroad, 1291-7 (ibid. pp. 357, 456, 483; 1292-1301 pp. 27, 119, 214, 304). Also can. of Beverley and Bridgnorth (CPR 1292-1301 pp. 186, 169); dean of St Severin, Bordeaux (ibid. pp. 9, 34). D. between 19 Aug. 1297 and 24 Aug. 1299 (ibid. pp. 304, 436, and cf. p. 448), as this preb. (Reg. Gandavo II 580).

M. Gilbert Lovel

Coll. to this preb. in succession to M. Reimund de Ferrariis, 13 Oct. 1298 (Reg. Gandavo II 580). Had been succeeded in preb. by 22 June 1304 (2 Fasti III 76). Transf. to preb. Fordington, where occ. 22 Nov. 1310 (ibid. p. 51; cf. list 31).

Footnotes

  • 1. Prob. a companion of legate Guala, see Sayers, Papal Govt., pp. 179, 180, 185.