Prebendaries
PREBEND
Church of Oving (W. Suss.). Oving not in DB, but prob. included in bp.'s manor
of Aldingbourne (see AS Chs. of Selsey no. 19 note). Church annexed to
precentory from before 1197 (Acta no. 122 and p. 45). Cf. Chart. Chichester no.
27, undated; Inq. Non. p. 358a. See also H. M. Davey, 'A history of the parish
of Oving', Suss. Archaeol. Collections xxxiv (1886) 185-214, and VCH Suss. IV
165-70.
? Pr.-preb.
Valuation 1291 with the precentory £53 6s 8d (Taxatio p. 137b).
PREBENDARIES
M. Louis
Canon, preb. unident. from before Dec. 1185 (list 42). First occ. as precentor
Dec. 1189 × Dec. 1190; last occ. 12 Nov. 1202 (list 4). Evidently this preb. from
before 1197 (Acta no. 122, and ibid. p. 45).
[M. William de Leuekenore
Precentor, occ. 1226/7 and 21 Apr. 1224 × 11 June 1229 (list 4). Presum. this
preb.]
Precentory, and presum. this preb., evidently vacant after 5 March 1231 (Reg.
Grég. IX nos. 4336, 575 = CPL I 173, 125).
[Ernisius de Tywa
Canon, preb. unident. (list 42). Precentor, first occ. 1 Apr. 1234; last occ. 19
Apr. 1251 (list 4). Presum. this preb. as precentor]
[M. Geoffrey of Ferring
Precentor, first occ. 27 June 1254; prob. died between 5 Oct. 1267 and 29 Oct.
1268 (list 4). Presum. this preb.]
M. Richard de Clifford
Royal collation to precentory and annexed preb. [i.e. this preb.] 23 July 1271
(CPR 1266-72 p. 552). No other occ. at Chichester, and had been succeeded as
precentor before 22 May 1283 (list 4).
Bogo de Clare
First occ. as precentor 22 May 1283 (list 4); occ. as precentor and this preb. 26
June 1292 and 20 July 1294 (Chart. Chichester nos. 1101, 93); died towards the
end of Oct. 1294 (list 4).
M. John de Sancto Leofardo
Precentor by 2 Aug. 1295; dean by 17 Aug. 1308 (2 Fasti VII 7, 4). Occ. as
this preb. 4 Aug. 1298 and undated (Chart. Chichester nos. 701, 1103). Parson of
Suthho (not Southover, E. Suss.) 18 Oct. 1294, and of Egremont, 11 Dec. 1295
(CPR 1292-1301 pp. 124, 213).