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41 Calendar of the
Fine Rolls 9, Edward III 1337-1344 (HMSO London, 1915) pp.161-3.
42 Calendar of the Fine Rolls 9, Richard III
377-1383 (HMSO London, 1926), pp. 276, 268.
43 Calendar of the Patent Rolls 4, Richard
111383-91, (HMSO, London, 1902), p. 258. Dated June 7: ‘Licence for good
service in the wars of the late king and of the king to Richard Altryncham
to acquire from the prior and convent of Beaulieu in Normandy the manor of
Patryngburn, co. Kent, for sixty years, on condition that after acquiring
it he render to the king as much yearly as is now rendered at the
Exchequer therefor’.
44 Calendar of the Patent Rolls 4, Henry IV
1408-1413 (HMSO London, 1909), pp. 139, 140, dated 26 October 1409. In
exchange for the manor, the priory was to give Altryncham ‘for life a
chamber with a privy and a chimney within their priory’, or a yearly
rent of 40s.
45 Unfortunately, the Merton Priory records beyond the
end of the fourteenth century have not survived.
46 Tatton-Brown suggests that the fifteenth-century
rebuilding included a five-bay crown-post roof on the nave, the west
window (with its gable above), two western buttresses, the two-light
window in the south-west aisle and the south-east chapel.
47 There are a number of examples of windows in this
style in Kent, including the south wall of the nave of Canterbury
Cathedral and the east window at Goodnestone (near Faversham).
48 The style of these two southern windows is fairly
common in the area — for example at Sturry and Barham — and they may
have been produced by a local workshop in the mid-fifteenth century.
49 Tatton-Brown suggests that a perpendicular window
with a square hood-mould, judged by Livett to be fifteenth-century, was
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the Conyngham ‘pew’ in the nineteenth century. The remains of a flue
are still to be seen on the outside above that window.
50 Davis, W. G., The Ancestry of Mary Isaac c.
1549-1613 ,privately printed (Portland, USA, 1955). John Isaac II was
the son of John Isaac I (born c. 1350) who bought a house and land
at Patrixbourne and Bridge for 100 marks in 1378.
51 J. Philipot, Villare Cantianum, including an
Historical Catalogue of the High-Sheriffs of Kent (London, 1659), p.
266, gives the inscription on their tomb (no longer to be seen): ‘Orate
pro animabus Johannis Izaak, armige, et Ceceliae uxoris eius, qui obit
.... Anno Domini 1443’.
52 The tomb was presumably removed when the Conynghams
requisitioned the chapel for use as their family pew. The tomb seems
unusually low, but the floor of the chapel was raised.
53 Their arms appear in the cloister twice, once alone
and once impaled. John Isaac I made a donation before he died (sometime
between 1399 and 1419).
54 John Isaac III joined the rebellion led by Jack Cade
in 1450 and was among those subsequently pardoned by the king. He was
probably about thirty years old at that time and was to become sheriff of
Kent and keeper of Canterbury castle in 1460. (Calendar of the Patent
Rolls 5, Henry VI 1446-1452 (HMSO London, 1909), p.340 and Calendar
of the Fine Rolls 19, Henry VI 1453-1461 (HMSO London, 1939), p. 290).
Reaffirmed sheriff of Kent and keeper of the castle in the following year
when Edward IV became king (Calendar of the Fine Rolls 20, Edward
IV 1461-1471 (HMSO London, 1949 p. 10).
55 is an initial in the Dover Bible with a crowned head
reminiscent of this figure. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 4, fol.l39r.
C. M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190 (London, 1975),
no. 69. |